The Return of Desire
A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion
This book continues where The Heart and Soul of Sex leaves off. It invites you to understand the richness and complexity of what women want—beyond performance, beyond hormones, beyond the medical model that polarizes function and dysfunction, and beyond the cultural clichés that polarize men and women. Here, you’ll learn scores of ways to activate the four energies that spark sexual desire in your relationships, including the all-important relationship with yourself.
—Esther Perel, author of “Mating in Captivity”
The Heart and Soul of Sex
Making the ISIS Connection
This book weaves together a story about sex that’s never been told before in quite this way—from the thousands who answered the ISIS survey on integrating sexuality and spirituality, and thousands more who have attended my lectures, workshops, and therapy sessions. Here you’ll learn the depth and breadth of our sexual responses—from what I call skin hunger to emotional flow to cosmic connection, Tantra, and more.
—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of “The Wisdom of Menopause”
Women Who Love Sex
Ordinary Women Describe Their Paths to Pleasure, Intimacy, and Ecstasy
I originally wrote this book to address a curious paradox in our culture about women’s sexuality: While there is increasing encouragement for women to say “No” to abuse and violence, there is still no broad-based encouragement for us to say “Yes” to pleasure. Here you’ll find stories confirming what every woman knows instinctively about sexual pleasure, in a language that every woman will understand.
—Judy Norsigian, co-author of “Our Bodies, Ourselves”
Other Books by Gina
- Women Who Love Sex: Enhancing Your Pleasure, Enriching Your Life (1994) Pocket Books.
- Food for Body and Soul: Recipes for Recovery (1991) Health Communications.
- Sexual Recovery: Everywoman’s Guide through Sexual Codependency (1990) Health Communications
- Safe Encounters: How Women Can Say Yes to Pleasure and No to Unsafe Sex (1988) McGraw-Hill (with Beverly Whipple)
- When a Family Needs Therapy: A Practical Assessment Guide for Parents, Lay Therapists, and Professionals (1976) Beacon Press (with Anne Zevin)
Coming Soon!
Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy: An Integrative Model for Individuals, Couples, and Groups
Important New Guide for Sex Therapists & Other Health Professionals
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