What a Sexology Conference in India Taught Me about Sex
It’s exotic, India: spices and incense, jungle foliage, and temples, both massive and small, built to honor the pantheon of Hindu gods. It’s also grounded: a crush of cars and people, grand hotels beside tiny shelters, and daily grand movement from home to work and...
How a Psychologist Can Help with Sexual Pain Disorders
Pain is a human experience that is not completely understood. So I learned at the International Pelvic Pain Society meeting in San Diego last weekend. What is known is that pain comes from the brain. An injured area sends signals to the brain, and the brain makes...
A Burning Question about Sex
I just had an interesting call, though one that is not unique to our practice. It could have been a man or a woman, but let’s make it a female caller with a male partner who asks, “My partner is curious about having sex with (fill in the blank). Should I...
Rethinking Sex Addiction, Part I
A growing group of psychotherapists are questioning the idea that sex can be addictive. I, too, have struggled with the concept of addiction when it comes to sex. Some men (and it is mainly men, so I’ll use male pronouns) do seem truly out of control when it...