Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic - Hardcover

Perel, Esther

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060753633 ISBN 13: 9780060753634

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

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. 40,000 first printing.

About this title

Review

'At precisely the same moment that you're being shocked by her, you're also acknowledging the validity of her ideas. Perel's ideas are like the chorus of a really good pop song - instantly familiar because they resonate deeply. It's all rather terrifying in its intuitiveness and its pure rightness'

(Observer)

'Reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan and French Women Don't Get Fat' (The New Yorker)

'As revelatory as it is straightforward' (Publishing Weekly)

'Enormous fun'

(Sunday Times)

From the Author

I wrote this book because, in 22 years of practice in six
different languages, I've met couples over and over again who were having a
good relationship, who love each other, but who have no sex, no tingle! I
met couples who had a bad relationship, and who I helped to have a good
relationship again, and the expectation was that the sex would just come
back - but it didn't. I began to think there's something in this premise -
that if sex is wrong, the relationship is wrong; and equally that more
talk, intimacy and closeness will equal more sex, better sex - that just
doesn't work. I knew I was on to something.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060753633
• ISBN 13: 9780060753634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244