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Also by Esther Perel:

Mating in Captivity, October 2009
Paperback / e-Book
Wild Things in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, September 2006
Hardcover

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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