Enduring Desire: Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy

by Michael E. Metz, Barry W. McCarthy

In Enduring Desire, authors Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy inspire and motivate readers with real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple. Throughout the book, they promote positive, realistic sexual expectations without commercialism and the exotic promises of hype that set people up for disappointment. The message is down-to-earth and full of joy for all couples, from their 20s to their 80s. They advocate the variable, flexible “Good Enough Sex” (GES) model, which validates the inherent variability and flexibility of couple sexuality and examine the biopsychosocial, multidimensional, and comprehensive roles, functions, and meanings of couple sexuality.

Genres: Relationships

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book promoted great discussion for my husband and me about our sexuality. The author included good exercises that we were able to discuss together.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author's present a number of exercises that couples can work through to build intimacy. They recommend seeking "good enough sex" (GES) so that expectations are more realistic.

[Serena Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great book for marriage therapists and anyone in a relationship. Especially given high expectations of sex portrayed in today’s media.