The Best Form of Therapy? Sex!
May 2, 2009 by Aly Walansky
Filed under Relationships
Believe it or not, sex can solve your problems.
At least the authors of Sex Comes First: 15 Ways to Help Your Relationship expect us to believe that.
In this book, Dr. Joel D. Block and Kimberly Dawn Neumann go through fifteen universal relationship roadblocks and offer sexual solutions to help you move beyond them.
Whether it’s work, money, jealousy, lack of communication – there’s lots of emotional issues that seem to cause rifts in couples. This book, though, maintains that we can use sex as the common denominator to bring us and our mate back together.
Do I agree? I’m not really sure I do. Sure, bad sex, or lack of sex, can tear us apart…but can good sex bring us back (or keep us) together? It’s – I think – a matter of it being really important a factor if it’s not going well, but only a component if it is.
What do you all think?
Image: Amazon.com
As for agreeing or disagreeing with the premise of the book, I welcome both. However, what I REALLY appreciate is a view that is based on actually reading the book, not some press release.
I’d like to add that when the cognitive solution to an issue is combined with an experiential solution (in this case, body/mind), the solution is more likely to pierce defensive armor and be integrated. And when the experiential portion is sexual–customized to the couple’s issue–it is even more powerful.
Joel Block, Ph.D.