Passion 101

Some of you have suspected it, but what’s the truth? Does a woman’s sex drive go down in a committed relationship?  The latest research from Germany indicates that IT DOES! The results state that around 60% of 30 year old women want sex “often” in the beginning of a relationship, yet this begins to drop [...]

A new article on the ABC News Website suggests that “kinky” sex is increasing and perhaps it is due to the Internet. As a psychologist and couples therapist, I believe that while it might be true that the interest in sado-masochism, bondage/domination and the paraphilias is increasing, using the word “kinky” is pejorative. Couples are [...]

The video posted below is from the ted.com website.  If you aren’t familiar with this website yet, it is an incredible source of video talks by some of the finest minds and greatest thinkers on the planet.  I encourage you strongly to browse through it when you have time. Now, while orgasm is not the [...]

The Passion 101 Website is about creating passion in your relationship.  Sexual passion is certainly one strong contributor to overall passion.  According to Drs. Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, “Studies show that, when things are going well, sex contributes only 15 percent to the overall satisfaction of a relationship.  But if things aren’t going well, [...]

There are two approaches I normally take with couples in working to re-ignite the sexual passion in their relationship.  The first is probably more typical in couples counseling and basically assumes that when the couple reconnects through good communication skills and re-establishes emotional intimacy, that they will eventually re-establish physical intimacy as well. This IS [...]

We’ve all experienced how in the beginning of a relationship, the scent of a lover, or even a memory of their scent may arouse us.  Our olfactory sense (our sense of smell) is perhaps the most powerful sense in the human body.  It has the shortest and most direct path to our brain and develops [...]