“Sex addiction” treatment understands nothing about sex, lets one or both partners evade responsibility, and assumes “addicts” are out of control.
Its handling of infidelity, porn use, sex workers, “emotional affairs,” desire, fantasy, and masturbation damages people and their marriages.
Today is National Psychotherapy Day. Every year, it comes seven weeks after National Psychic Day (yes, really).
Psychotherapy involves a wonderful set of tools. Every year, skillful therapists save marriages, facilitate divorces, educate parents, ease trauma, and help people overcome depression or anxiety.
But one of American psychotherapy’s main weaknesses is in the area of sexuality. Most therapists…
Jonas and Marge have been married for 17 years.
This week they had sex for the first time in 10 years.
They had stopped when she found out he had been seeing prostitutes all over the country while he travelled for business. She was too angry and hurt to let him touch her.
Porn? Almost everyone has questions—and opinions.
Here’s an FAQ with questions and answers you won’t find elsewhere.
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…
As both a sex therapist and marriage counselor, I have been talking to individuals and couples about infidelity for over thirty years.
People often impulsively reveal this to others–which is frequently a mistake.