Laurie J. Watson is a licensed marriage and family therapist and an AASECT certified sex therapist. Author of the book Wanting Sex Again: How to Rediscover Your Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage and co-host of the podcast Foreplay: Radio Sex Therapy, Watson has spent the last 25 years counseling couples on “keeping it hot.”
For couples, emotional connection and sexual intimacy are dynamically related. Difficulties in one area often destabilize the other ...
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Are you divorced and entering the dating scene for the first time after a long marriage? If it’s been a decade or two since you last went ...
For most of us, sex doesn’t really resemble the perfectly choreographed scenes we see in the movies. In real life, there are snafus – ...
For people going through cancer, sex can be a powerful affirmation of aliveness – many patients say it is one of the most important markers ...
Many women find sex to be the deepest form of love and connection, and many women are very sexually oriented. But the ways that women ...
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