Erotic Love and Marriage

Improving Your Sex Life and Emotional Connection

Frederick D. Mondin EdD

Erotic Love and Marriage is written for couples who are searching to establish or restore a fulfilling sexual relationship and a meaningful and gratifying connection. Using history, everyday life situations, and careful analysis, Frederick Mondin makes the case for liberation from the fear, guilt, and shame that mark so much of human sexuality. He offers insight on sexual issues almost everyone struggles with in their relationships and promotes a healthier approach that highlights connection, communication, and exploration. Including an exploration of the role of religion and culture in shaping sexual attitudes and behaviors, he offers guidelines for establishing a healthier outlook on and understanding of sexual choices and desires.

Intended to help the many couples struggling to break free of negative scripts, inhibition, fear, guilt, and shame surrounding intimacy and sexual connection, he offers real life examples and solutions that will help readers enjoy a closer more meaningful sexual and emotional relationship with their partners. Couples will learn how to improve their sexual experience by understanding male sexual functioning and female orgasm. Erotic Love and Marriage also explores what role pornography, infidelity, masturbation, sexual addiction, erotica, romance, and emotional connections play in a couple’s affairs. Mondin’s insights provide a positive and nurturing perspective that inspires and instructs in a way that leaves couples feeling more secure, grounded, and connected.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 176 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-5381-1534-3 • Hardback • October 2018 • $34.00 • (£26.00)

978-1-5381-1535-0 • eBook • October 2018 • $32.00 • (£25.00)

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Love & Romance

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Improving Your Sex Life and Emotional Connection

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Summary

Erotic Love and Marriage is written for couples who are searching to establish or restore a fulfilling sexual relationship and a meaningful and gratifying connection. Using history, everyday life situations, and careful analysis, Frederick Mondin makes the case for liberation from the fear, guilt, and shame that mark so much of human sexuality. He offers insight on sexual issues almost everyone struggles with in their relationships and promotes a healthier approach that highlights connection, communication, and exploration. Including an exploration of the role of religion and culture in shaping sexual attitudes and behaviors, he offers guidelines for establishing a healthier outlook on and understanding of sexual choices and desires.

Intended to help the many couples struggling to break free of negative scripts, inhibition, fear, guilt, and shame surrounding intimacy and sexual connection, he offers real life examples and solutions that will help readers enjoy a closer more meaningful sexual and emotional relationship with their partners. Couples will learn how to improve their sexual experience by understanding male sexual functioning and female orgasm. Erotic Love and Marriage also explores what role pornography, infidelity, masturbation, sexual addiction, erotica, romance, and emotional connections play in a couple’s affairs. Mondin’s insights provide a positive and nurturing perspective that inspires and instructs in a way that leaves couples feeling more secure, grounded, and connected.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 176 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-5381-1534-3 • Hardback • October 2018 • $34.00 • (£26.00)

978-1-5381-1535-0 • eBook • October 2018 • $32.00 • (£25.00)

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Love & Romance

Author

Frederick D. Mondin, ED.D., has counseled thousands of individuals and couples. His private practice as a marriage and sexuality counselor spans more than four decades, and he also was an adjunct professor in human sexuality at Boise State University for 25 years.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Focus of the Subject and the Author
Chapter One: What Interferes with Sexual Success and Pleasure
Chapter Two: The Negative Influence of the Bible and Religion on Our Sexuality
Chapter Three: The Importance of Erotic Language in Making Love
Chapter Four: The Mechanics of Female Orgasm: Surrendering to Lust
Chapter Five: Solo Sex: Becoming Erotic with Yourself
Chapter Six: Understanding Male Sexuality
Chapter Seven: Marriage: Creating a Deep Sexual and Emotional Connection
Chapter Eight: How Romancing Can Deepen Your Sexual Experience
Conclusion: Breaking Free of the Negative Sexual Script and Living More Erotically

Reviews

Mondin’s insights into why healthy people encounter challenges to sexual pleasure will wake you up! I applaud the tone, the intelligence, and the style of this book—a candid and entertaining work that many couples desperately need.
— Maryann Karinch, co-author of Sex and Cancer

Features

January 2019, Winthrop News (MN) feature's author Frederick D. Mondin and the book in an article titled "How to rekindle the romance in your marriage."

3/1/19, Brides Magazine: The Sexual Healing column in features advice from author Frederick D. Mondin of "Erotic Love and Marriage: Improving Your Sex Life and Emotional Connection." Link: https://www.brides.com/story/ask-anka-keep-romance-alive

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Improving Your Sex Life and Emotional Connection

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