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Masters and Johnson were the very beginners in the sex therapy field. They came to light during the awesomeness of the 60's. Their research focused on three basic ideas:
1. Encouraging couples to engage in completely new experiences.
2. Persuading couples to perform in a previously prohibitive way that would hopefully dissolve their sexual conflicts
3. Allowing couples to openly discuss such taboo subjects as premature ejaculation.
I agree with most of what I've read about them.
Love and intimacy in the postmodern age affords the luxury of modern medicine and biology. Once medical factors are ruled out, a more ominous issue arises, that of desire disorders. Postmodern sex therapies consider many complex problems when approaching Sexual Dysfunction. According to current research, sexual disorders might have a host of underlying causes. These causes might even make sexual dysfunction desirable to the person suffering from such problems. For example, if a couple is having problems with intimacy, trust, or control in their relationship, creating sexual problems might be a way of avoiding dealing directly with the real issues. Low self-esteem, unresolved family or parental conflicts, or using energy for performance at work instead of for sex are all examples of problems that a couple must address before any promising sex therapy can begin.
Benefits
If solvable medical issues have been ruled out, this is where I come in. We will work to resolve whatever problem is causing a difficulty with intimacy. Then a loving sexual relationship with your wife will be able to proceed. In an age of machines and computers and email replacing interpersonal contact, avoiding intimacy is rather easy. When people are allowed, or even expected, to become self-absorbed, sexual desire becomes even less necessary. In this age of sexless lives, living a life of all work and no play is considered a virtue (but only to the woman who needs to work out her own personal intimacy issues as well.) With so many issues at hand, a qualified sex therapist is often needed to help a person reach to the core of his or her problems.
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