A guide for loving couples who are looking to renew sexual passion in their lives explains how societal taboos and ideals about domestic equality have compromised the healthy expression of eroticism in today's relationships, in a resource that explains how to overcome personal constraints for greater intimacy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Introduction
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From Adventure to Captivity: Why the Quest for Security Saps Erotic Vitality
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More Intimacy, Less Sex: Love Seeks Closeness, but Desire Needs Distance
19
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The Pitfalls Of Modern Intimacy: Talk Is Not the Only Avenue to Closeness
38
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Democracy Versus Hot Sex: Desire and Egalitarianism Don't Play by the Same Rules
53
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Can Do! The Protestant Work Ethic Takes On the Degradation of Desire
71
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Sex Is Dirty; Save It for Someone You Love: When Puritanism and Hedonism Collide
88
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Erotic Blueprints: Tell Me How You Were Loved, and I'll Tell You How You Make Love
106
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Parenthood: When Three Threatens Two
125
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Of Flesh and Fantasy: In the Sanctuary of the Erotic Mind We Find a Direct Route to Pleasure
152
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The Shadow of the Third: Rethinking Fidelity
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Putting the X Back in Sex: Bringing the Erotic Home
