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How Can We Talk About Our Desire Discrepancies?

couples therapy, how sexuality works, sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.January 11, 2018Leave a comment

This blog entry returns to my How Sexuality Works series which uses the metaphor of a river to help explain sexuality and eroticism. For prior posts in the series click the links below or skip below to read about sexual compatibility. Sexuality Is a River What is Erotic and Why? Part I What is Erotic…

A purple Flower Bell After Rainfall

What is Erotic and Why? Part II

how sexuality works, metaphors, sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.October 30, 2017Leave a comment

How Sexuality Works: Part III This is the third post of my Sexuality is a River series and my second post applying the analogy of a river to Morin’s theories of eroticism. You can find the first post in the series here: Sexuality Is a River. That post describes the perspective I write from and some…

A Lone Red Japanese Maple Leaf Among Gray and Blue Rounded River Stones

How Does Your River Flow?: What is Erotic and Why? Part I

how sexuality works, metaphors, sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.October 24, 2017Leave a comment

How Sexuality Works, Part II This is the second blog post in my series describing what I understand about the subjective experience of sexuality using the analogy of a river. You can find my first post in the series here: Sexuality Is a River. That post describes the perspective I write from and some caveats…

Rickety Dock on a Lake in Fall

Sexuality is Like a River–Natural and Beautiful

how sexuality works, metaphors, sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.October 11, 2017Leave a comment

How Sexuality Works, Part 1: Sexuality is a River “They should teach this in schools.” This is a phrase that I hear repeatedly as a therapist. Most often this phrase comes after I have explained a principle of relationships or sexuality. It is one of the reasons that sex therapists use the PLISSIT model for…

Moth on Pink Flowers

Bored in Bed? Place an Order With This Sex Menu

couples therapy, sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.October 6, 2017Leave a comment

Bored in Bed? Place an Order With This Sex Menu This is a little tool that I created to help couples stuck in a sexual rut. Follow these instructions so you can create your sex menu while you read along. Take regular sheet of paper, hold it with the long edge toward the bottom (landscape…

Sexual Health Principles

sexual problems, sexual valuesBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.March 30, 2017Leave a comment

Sexual Health Principles My first posts for this blog were a series of articles about sexual values and how they might operate in therapy for sexual issues (see the first in the series here). At that time I was early in the development of steering my practice toward a focus on sexual issues. I knew…

Sex Addiction: Maybe Not What You Think

sexual problemsBy Eric FitzMedrud Ph.D.January 31, 2015Leave a comment

Having worked with clients with out of control sexual behavior (OCSB), and having spent several years during my training working with clients with chemical addictions, I have found the term sexual addiction is at best a misnomer and at worst a mistake. Sex Addiction V. High Sex Drive One challenge with the term sex addiction is…

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