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The people who come to me often feel somehow unfit for love. Their bodies don't match what we've been told is attractive, and somewhere along the way they decided love was for other people.

Yet somewhere inside them is a part that badly wants a different answer.

That's why I keep coming back to De...

These days, so much attention goes to porn videos. But have you thought about erotic graphic novels?

My guess is no, because many folks haven't.

What I love about this kind of erotica is that you enjoy the turn-on with your eyes in a very different way than with a video. You're still looking at bo...

"I want more sex than they do."

I hear this all the time. It's one of the most common reasons couples come to see me, and it's a conversation I have with plenty of my friends, too.

In sitting with many couples, I've noticed it's extremely rare for two people to want the same amount of sex across t...

You should be like this. You should do that. If you want a healthy sex life, you should try this with your partner. There are "shoulds" in every direction you turn these days. People, other people you have never met, are telling you how you should act. In graduate school, I heard the phrase "shouldi...

Fantasy and imagination are a natural part of being human, and many of us fantasize about sexual things. Maybe it's someone sweeping you off your feet (romance), meeting a sexy stranger and going right at it (no-strings-attached passion), or taking someone, or being taken, in a rough way (dominance)...

Remember the beginning of your relationship, all those feelings of passion? You were lustful and excited about getting to know the other person. You stayed up all night talking, and a look or a slight touch turned you red hot inside. You felt alive, with more energy and happiness about the way your ...

The term "sexless marriage" gets a lot of attention, but relationships are often "touchless" long before anyone calls them sexless.

When I first wrote this, I'd just watched the movie Le Week-End (2013), about a British couple who return to Paris after 30 years of marriage to re-create their honeym...

On flirting, desire, and knowing what you want.

When I was asked to present at the event Master the F Word: Flirting, my first thought was, "What do I actually do when I flirt with someone?" The answer was simple: I imagine myself fucking them.

From this idea, I ran an exercise with the group. Par...