Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each
other as much as ever?
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Can we want what we already have?
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Why does the transition to parenthood so often spell erotic disaster?

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Does good intimacy always make for good sex?

Esther Perel takes on these tough questions, grappling with the
obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love
conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore
the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains
what it takes to bring lust home.

In her twenty years of clinical experience, Perel has treated hundreds
of couples whose home lives are empty of passion. They describe
relationships that are open and loving, yet sexually dull. What
is going on?

In this explosively original book, Perel explains that our cultural
penchant for equality, togetherness, and absolute candor is antithetical
to erotic desire for both men and women. Sexual excitement doesn't
always play by the rules of good citizenship. It is politically
incorrect. It thrives on power plays, unfair advantages, and the
space between self and other. More exciting, playful, even poetic
sex is possible, but first we must kick egalitarian ideals and emotional
housekeeping out of our bedrooms.

While Mating in Captivity shows why the domestic realm
can feel like a cage, Perel's take on bedroom dynamics promises
to liberate, enchant, and provoke. Flinging the doors open on erotic
life and domesticity, she invites us to put the "X" back
in sex.

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence (Paperback)

By Esther Perel

$13.99

ISBN-13: 9780060753641
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 11/2007

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