Winner of the 2011 AASECT Book Award!
Co-authors of Mens Sexual Health, Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy have come together to inspire and motivate readers in their newest book, Enduring Desire. Real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises allow readers to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple. Throughout the book, the authors promote positive, realistic sexual expectations without commercialism and the hyped, exotic promises that only set people up for disappointment. The message is down-to-earth and full of joy for all couples from their 20s to their 80s. The authors advocate the variable, flexible Good Enough Sex (GES) model, which validates the inherent variability and flexibility of couple sexuality and examines the biopsychosocial, multidimensional, and comprehensive roles, functions and meanings of couple sexuality.
Real Sex for Couples: The New Way of Thinking. Your Growth Goals for Quality Sex. Your Expectations and Sexual Satisfaction. The Best Sex is Relationship Sex. Creating Your Couple Sexual Style. Intimate Teamwork: The Environment for GES. Celebrating Your Sexual Being: Confident Sex. The Gender Team. Sexual Pleasure and Function. Flexibility and Variability Build Enduring Quality. Real-life Sex: Regular, Playful, and Special. Good Enough Sex : Putting it All Together. Appendix A: Choosing an Individual, Couple, or Sex Therapist. Appendix B: Resources: Books, Videos, and Trusted Websites.
No hype, no bromidesjust loads of practical and inspiring strategies for having a life-long, satisfying sexual relationship. I cant think of a better guide for couples young and old. Read it together, use it, and give it to couples starting their journey together. William J. Doherty, PhD, Professor of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota; authorlĄ