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The Joys of Good Enough Sex

Session #: 710-518
Presenter(s): Barry McCarthy
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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If you thought that romantic, passionate, and mutually idealizing couples in the early stages of their relationship have the best sex, you'd be wrong. In fact, research shows that couples who've been together at least 10 years regularly report greater desire, pleasure, and satisfaction than their younger cohorts. In this workshop, we'll explore what our understanding of long-married couples can teach us about balancing autonomy and marital togetherness, eroticism and intimacy in younger couples. You'll learn how to help couples make the necessary transition from the romantic/passionate sex phase of their relationship to a unique, personal, realistic sexual style of their own. We'll also discuss how to help young couples learn a variable, flexible model of "Good Enough Sex" to inoculate them against sexual problems and disappointments as they age, as well as how to help women to develop their own sexual voices and men to learn to value intimacy.

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