Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship

Winner, Nautilus Gold Book Award for Relationships and Communication.

Can sex survive monogamy? Yes, once you understand how sexual emotions really work.

This award-winning, paradigm-shifting guide turns traditional sex therapy inside-out to reveal the hidden rules for great sex. Gentle, compassionate, and filled with compelling stories from Dr. Stephen Snyder's thirty years as a sex therapist working with over 1,500 individuals and couples, Love Worth Making is essential reading for anyone hoping to keep sexual inspiration alive in a committed relationship.

ISBN-13: 9781250113108

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 01-15-2019

Pages: 304

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

STEPHEN SNYDER, M.D., is a sex and relationship therapist and writer, with a national reputation as one of the most creative thinkers in the sex field today. An Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, Dr. Snyder is a guest on major media outlets nationwide and writes for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post. He lives with his wife and children in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Your Wife is Not a Lawn Mower

PART I: YOUR SEXUAL SELF
1. Rules of the Heart
2. The Sexual Self in Action
3. Be My Baby
4. Selfishly Yours
5. The Art of the Easy
Getting Practical: Sexual Arousal for Its Own Sake
6. Two Roads to Orgasm

PART II: WOMEN AND MEN
7. The Woman in the Mirror
8. Men at Work
9. The Mysteries of Intercourse
Getting Practical: Intercourse, Outercourse, and "Lazy Sex"
10. Why Women Lose Interest in Sex
11. Why Men Go Missing in Bed
12. Standing Your Ground

PART III: SEX FOR LIFE
13. Eros and Faith
14. Becoming a Couple
15. Can Sex Survive Monogamy?
16. Mindfulness, Heartfulness, and Prayer
Getting Practical: Sex Tune-Ups for Couples
17. Care of the Sexual Soul
18. Childhood's End

Appendix: Eleven Classic Sex-Knots, and How to Untie Them

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