When Sex Addicts Reveal Everything to Spouses
When it's time to confess sexually addictive behaviors to a spouse, a therapeutic disclosure process serves as a healthy container for the truths and feelings of both parties.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST, CSAT Tags: Addiction Relationships Sex Therapy cheating disclosure divorce infidelity marriage partners of sex addicts repair sex addiction sex therapy therapist disclosure Source Type: news
A Possible Sign That You’re a Narcissist
We tend to over-diagnose narcissism, accusing people of not caring about others when they just don't care about us as much as we'd like and feel entitled to be cared about. If you're deeply interested in how to diagnose narcissism with authority, it may be because you've got a bit of the old narcissism in you, too. And who doesn't in these times of great expectations?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Ethics and Morality Happiness Personality Philosophy Politics Sex Social Life Spirituality Stress Work Source Type: news
Sugar, Salt, and Multiple Wives
In the human evolutionary past, certain resources (such as sugar, fat, and multiple mates) would have been great for survival and reproduction but difficult to acquire. How has the past elusiveness of these resources shaped human appetites for them?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Michael E. Price, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Evolutionary Psychology Relationships Sex food preferences gustatory mating strategies monogamy Paleolithic polygamy polygyny Source Type: news
Charles Blow: "Up From Pain," Sex Abuse, and Bisexuality
I'd hoped in reading "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" to gain some new perspectives on bisexuality. But when I finished it, I realized it had mainly served to remind me how complicated sexual feelings are, how tightly they are bound up with a person's other struggles, and how humble we must be in trying to theorize about them. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Stephen Snyder, M.D. Tags: Cognition Sex Source Type: news
Taking the DSM out of BDSM
A more detailed explanation of some of the forensic differences between consensual BDSM and abuseread more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 23, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Robert J. King, Ph.D. Tags: Sex BDSM; consent; abuse Fifty shades of Gray; BDSM; female sexuality Source Type: news
The iHuman Experience
Under what exact circumstances does absence make the heart grow fonder? And in what way does absence instead make the heart wander? read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 22, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Sex Social Life long distance relationships romantic love Source Type: news
10 Differences Between (Most) Men and Women
1. Men care way too little about what women say. Women care way too much about what men say--except when those men are in positions of actual power, such as are held by politicians or members of the clergy, who are making decisions and choices that will effect the deepest recesses and corners of our most intimate lives without actually, like, consulting us. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 22, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Gina Barreca, Ph.D. Tags: Gender Personality Sex Social Life are women and men really different? comedy about men and women essential differences between men and women humor about men and women men and listening real differences between men and women why do men Source Type: news
Ten Differences Between (Most) Men and Women
1. Men care way too little about what women say. Women care way too much about what men say--except when those men are in positions of actual power, such as are held by politicians or members of the clergy, who are making decisions and choices that will affect the deepest recesses and corners of our most intimate lives without actually, like, consulting us. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 22, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Gina Barreca, Ph.D. Tags: Gender Personality Sex Social Life are women and men really different? comedy about men and women essential differences between men and women humor about men and women men and listening real differences between men and women why do men Source Type: news
Fifty Shades Puts the Transfer of Power on the Table
Fifty Shades is not just a curious sociological phenomenon to be mused over in academic seminars. With this kind of impact, it is like throwing a hand grenade into the sex garage. What has been the real impact of Fifty Shades on the sexual scene?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 20, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Edward Shorter, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Psychiatry Relationships Sex Source Type: news
Making Relationships Last Past The Honeymoon Period
The honeymoon period is a celebration of your compatibilities. Following it, you slowly and inefficiently start getting your ducks in order for negotiating the inevitable incompatibilities, a hard time for guessing how much compatibility you'll end up having. Understand the post-honeymoon hump and you'll maximize your chances of making it over and beyond it.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 19, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Ethics and Morality Happiness Relationships Sex Social Life Source Type: news
Are Humans Heading For Extinction?
A perfect storm is brewing, with women having fewer children, sperm count declining and the obesity rate increasing making it harder for women to conceive, all point towards the extinction of the human race. Where we so wrong in the 60s? Can we make it right?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 18, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Mario D. Garrett, PhD Tags: Aging Sex Source Type: news
Hand-in-Hand: Marriage Equality and Gender Equality
As we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) to decide whether or not to address state bans on same-sex marriage, we can reflect on how quickly marriage equality has ricocheted across the country since SCOTUS struck down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. We also do well to ask ourselves what these rapid changes imply about our culture. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 17, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Mark O'Connell, L.C.S.W. Tags: Gender Politics Relationships Sex female sexuality marriage equality Richard Posner same sex marriage SCOTUS sexual revolution Source Type: news
Yes means Yes
Yes means yes. That’s the shorthand for the new legislation poised to become law in California. For California college students today and in the future, “yes” is an erotic word, a turn on, and an invitation to a lifetime of healthy sex.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 15, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW Tags: Gender Relationships Sex Source Type: news
How Rules Can Ruin Your Love Life
. The Anti-rules of Dating may save it! By Eugenio A. Duarte, Ph.D.
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Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 14, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: The Contemporary Psychoanalysis Group Tags: Happiness Relationships Sex Social Life Source Type: news
Clear Communications about Sex for Effective Parenting
With inappropriate sexual messages inundating kids through the media and culture, parents feel thrown off guard to respond. By maintaining ongoing conversations about sexuality kids can rely on a dependable support to negotiate such challenges and pressures. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 14, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: John T. Chirban, Ph.D, Th.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting Relationships Sex Source Type: news
