I trust most children to accurately know if they’re hungry, cold, or need a bathroom. I don’t trust children to accurately know if they require medicine, should take math class, or need to lose weight.
Do you?
I trust children to know if they feel uncomfortable, unhappy, lonely, isolated, or different. I don’t trust children to know the best ways to resolve those feelings (it’s our job to teach them). And the more extreme their suggestions are, the less we should trust them.
Porn? Almost everyone has questions—and opinions.
Here’s an FAQ with questions and answers you won’t find elsewhere.
Encouraged by his parents and his parents’ church, Juan had made a deal with God when he was 12: he’d stay a virgin until he married. In return he’d get a wonderful virgin wife, and they’d love each other and have a glorious sex life with God’s blessing.
It only partly worked.
Regardless of sexual orientation, identity, preferences, or experience, your sexuality follows certain principles–what I call Sex Laws of the Universe.
Involving desire, power, emotions, orgasm, and more, these laws…
In 39 years as a sex therapist, I’ve worked with individuals and couples from every conceivable background, with every imaginable problem.
And yet this huge variety of people share a small number of recurring concerns. That’s what every sex therapist talks about, over and over, year after year.
If people would do the following eight things, most of our business would dry up overnight. Do one of these and your sexual satisfaction will almost certainly increase.
People are injecting politics into their relationships in ways that undermine them, interfering with empathy and communication.
Too many people perceive and talk about political forces instead of discussing personal characteristics or feelings. This doesn’t educate others or promote intimacy.