Why He Watches Porn Instead of Having Sex It is a common complaint, and not just in heterosexual couples. I hear one partner complain that he watches porn when the partner wants to have sex. It can be hard to understand, so I decided to write a post to help people make sense of this…
How Sexuality Works, Part 1: Sexuality is a River Once I’ve taught clients about their sexuality, they often say, “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…
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…
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 sex 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 that…