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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004Faculty:Esther Perel, MA, LMFTDuration:1:28:38Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Mar 26, 2004 Description Description: This workshop examines the cultural pressures that shape domesticated sex and the puzzling inverse correlation between greater emotional intimacy and the loss of sexual desire.
• It will demonstrate how to help couples draw pleasure from the hidden, the suggestive and the uncanny while also respecting their needs for safety and stability.
• Using case examples, we will explore how to grant the body its profound capacities for communicating in its own language.
• Educational Objectives: To describe how a sexual relationship can serve as a lens into the couple's interpersonal dynamics.
• To describe a cross-cultural perspective to help couples find alternate paths on the erotic landscape.