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Wild Things in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Esther Perel
A celebrated therapist examines the conflict between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust back into a loving but sexless relationship
HarperCollins
September 2006
On Sale: April 5, 2014
288 pages
ISBN: 0060753633
EAN: 9780060753634
Hardcover
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Self-Help Relationships
In her 20 years of clinical experience, Esther Perel has
treated scores of couples who complain of domestic lives
devoid of eroticism. They describe loving, intimate
relationships that are egalitarian and open, and yet their
sex lives are passionless and dull. In her explosively original thesis, Perel explains that
good intimacy doesn't necessarily make for good sex—our
cultural penchant for equality, fairness, and absolute
candor is antithet¬ical to erotic desire for men and women
alike. Sexual excite¬ment, she explains, doesn't play by
the rules of good citizenship. Rather, it is politically
incorrect, thriving on power plays, unfair advantages, and
seductive manipulations. Perel takes us into the paradoxes
of love and desire, and shows us how we might have more
exciting, playful, even poetic sex if we were less
con¬strained in the bedroom by egalitarian ideals and an
over-focus on performance. By flinging the doors open on
erotic life and domesticity, she invites the reader to put
the "X" back in sex.
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