Mating in Captivity
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4.4 • 334 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home.
One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.
Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel demonstrates how more exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in long-term relationships. Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is straightforward, Mating in Captivity is a sensational book that will transform the way you live and love.
Customer Reviews
Not Pleasure vs Work, work for pleasure
Our pleasures that involve “The other” should not be confined and at the same time excluded by the daily roulette of outrage, work, fatigue, boredom, routine and “love”. The connection you make to another person, even if that person exits only in your brain, is a connection You should value. Fantasy is the key to curiosity, vulnerability, and in some respect it is the playground where we can play out our yearnings, our dreams and if understood as just that, fantasy, it can serve in reality with another person.
I grew with this book. I became curious about me. I understood profoundly sentiments that for years bounded me and admonished me and now feel retrograde and old fashioned. I feel like my mind was freed to think, fantasize and be happily content.
I understand my relationships better. I have a new perspective, I feel compassion, curiosity for my partner. I want to DO more to bring this fantasy/play/connection into the intimacy of my relationships.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for writing this book.
Thank you Esther Perel and crew.
Ok
Started very good but at the end was not what I expected. Introducing a third? Ok. Maybe couples can find another way to better relationship.
It changed my life
Say what you want about her voice but this woman’s knowledge is brilliant, I applied this knowledge on my unsuspecting wife and I was shocked to see her jump on me like a little girl ounce again
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