Resurrecting Sex deals
with sexual problems plaguing couples around the world.
Whether you call yourself a sex therapist or are a marital therapist that sometimes helps couples
with their sexual problems, I think you will find this book a helpful addition to your clinical reading shelf.
If you would like more information about how we help couples struggling
with sexual problems, call us now or E-mail us to schedule a free, confidential phone consultation with one of our clinicians.
We provide marriage counseling and individual therapy for those struggling
with sexual problems, such as PE, ED, and painful or infrequent sex, and the pain they cause in a relationship.
In order to work effectively
with sexual problems, the sex therapist must be able to work effectively with non-sexual relationships as well.
Quirky characters
with sexual problems can only take you so far in comedy; you have to actually find a way to make these characters and situations humorous, and generate momentum in order to make audiences giddy.
The endorsement came despite lingering questions about safety and effectiveness, but also followed a high - stakes pressure campaign in which the manufacturer accused the Food and Drug Administration of gender bias, since several pills were already approved for men
with sexual problems.
With each sexual problem, we'll look at the diagnostic context for case formulation, as well as standard DSM - 5 protocols for intervention through the biospsychosocial lens.
In some cases, an individual is struggling
with their sexual problem and is not ready to include their partner in the process.
Not exact matches
«Social entrepreneurs are people who look at society and see the big
problems and see innovative solutions that are permanent and can change the fabric of society,» says Dr. Lyndon Haviland, interim CEO for Darkness to Light, a non-profit organization tasked
with preventing the
sexual abuse of children.
The Justice Department has serious and pervasive
problems with how it addresses
sexual misconduct complaints made by its own employees, the department's inspector general found in a recent report obtained by The Washington Post through Freedom of Information Act requests.
It's the first indication that Uber's
problems, from a
sexual harassment scandal to an intellectual property lawsuit
with Google parent Alphabet's self - driving car unit, are taking a significant and widespread toll on its stock price.
The Justice Department has «systemic»
problems in how it handles
sexual harassment complaints,
with those found to have acted improperly often not receiving appropriate punishment, and the issue requires «high level action,» according to the department's inspector general.
As mentioned, a recent legal probe exposed a work culture that is filled
with problems such as
sexual harassment and discrimination that resulted in the firing of 20 employees.
Yet ignoring the
problems can also come
with a price, as the International Monetary Fund is learning this week
with the arrest of managing director Dominique Strauss - Kahn on charges of attempted rape and
sexual abuse of a hotel maid.
So many people are dealing
with the reality check of
sexual issues and
problems, and because of the stigma we've created surrounding this important topic, many couples end up needlessly suffering for far too long.
If her companion is already married, perhaps the confessor will invite her to face the
problem with him, explaining to him that she loves him, but believes that God is calling them to a particularly difficult form of love in which there is no room for
sexual relations.
Most Americans - and most American Catholics - think Pope Benedict XVI has done a bad job of dealing
with the
problem of
sexual abuse by Catholics priests, according to a new national poll.
When faced
with a moral
problem like
sexual assault, a university culture quickly shifts to «critical thinking» rather than moral judgment.
With the
Sexual abuse being committed today this is not a catholic only
problem.
The
problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity
with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.
If he comes to Christ he will begin to have
problems with sexual sin he is committing before the Lord who saved him.
I do not believe that there is any
sexual problem that I have not dealt
with pastorally in some form in my more than twenty years in the ministry.
Piper is close to right in determining that the
problem with sexual abuse is a
problem with masculinity.
So there is much to be worried about, especially
with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived wisdom about how to respond to
problems such as early
sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.
Such
problems may include «excessive affective dependency,» disproportionate aggression, incapacity to be faithful to obligations, incapacity for openness and trust, inability to cooperate
with authority and confused
sexual identity...» Of course all that is true; but wouldn't half an hour
with a candidate over a pint tell most of us whether there is something about him that's a bit peculiar?
This does not in any way negate the John Jay statistics that prove the Catholic Church had a serious
problem with sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy.
But that complaint cuts both ways, because ultimately, the empirical
problem with the
sexual - orientation framework we have been handed is that it is too neat, that it works by oversimplifying an incredibly messy web of attractions and drives and temptations, and that it inhibits the taming of those desires by improperly amplifying their significance.
If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our
sexual lives, the solution to the
problem of what it means to be a
sexual being, we're only going to come up
with false rules and standards, ways of being that force some people out and others in, models of holiness that may work for one season of life but fall apart in another.
If you can use masturbation purely to bring physical release of tension
with some
sexual enjoyment thrown in, without that being addictive or fantasising about another person without their consent and without using pornography then personally I don't have a
problem with it.
Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along
with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the
problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or
sexual), in place of the clear definition of our
sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.
The story quotes others who have dealt
with the
problem and say that «churches are the perfect environment for
sexual predators, because they have large numbers of children's programs, a shortage of workers to lead them, and a culture of trust that is the essence of the organization.»
On the other hand, the chief
problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a
sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.
One bishop, in his self - serving statement of resignation after an unsavory incident
with a teenage boy was revealed, went so far as to suggest that his
problem was that he was a particularly caring and intelligent person who was attuned to the latest thinking about matters
sexual.
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing
with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy
with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for
sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's
problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
Rumors circulate that other Catholic theologians who dissent on
sexual morality have also experienced
problems with the Vatican.
Both Gothard and now Josh Duggar, and another family I personally know, who raised their family in the gothard way have had
problems with sexual perversions and been caught.
He emphasized that the
problem was
with the element of aggression, not
with the
sexual component.
But the thrust of what we have been saying is that some
sexual difficulties are not as deep as they may seem, and there is realistic hope for the vast majority of couples who approach their
problems with the will to grow together and to get professional help in the process if that proves to be necessary.
In short, the
problem with «heteronormativity» is not that it insists on
sexual difference; it's that it fails to insist on anything else.
The third
problem with resting the case on natural
sexual orientation is that it needs a middle term to justify
sexual behavior.
Not all or even most of the
problems we deal
with at the counseling center involve
sexual abuse.
With respect to the
problem of power in relation to human
sexual differentiation, I am not concerned to defend either traditional or modern versions of the roles of men and women, or to deny or affirm their distinctive natures, regardless of whether these differences are understood to be inherent or culturally derived.
Interpersonal
problems with co-workers, family and / or friends are common, as is
sexual dysfunction, especially within marriage.
However, I do have a logical
problem with people who want to put the Christian Church's «Stamp of Approval» on the
sexual act of sodomy.
In the first case, individuals attempt (or are counseled) to not accept the reality of their
sexual orientation (the idea that «there are no homosexual people — just heterosexual people
with a homosexual
problem»).
This is the central
problem for every Christian interpretation of love, and it underlies all the special ethical questions such as those dealing
with the
sexual life,
with the struggle for justice, and the intellectual life which we are to consider in later chapters.
But days later, after the emotions wore off, I began to realize that these men, all older than me, more mature, many leaders in their churches and in my church, not once did I ever hear before this, that any other men had a
problem with sexual lust.
The reason we should not take up the argument of Human Sexuality is not because of the obvious
problems with the report's vague criterion of «creative and integrative growth» as the necessary condition for the legitimacy of
sexual expression.
As we have said, it is very likely that the area of
sexual morality is central here, not only because it has to do
with a
problem of such striking contemporary relevance but because it follows from the significant role which sexuality plays in the total pattern of human life.