From Magnificent Sex (book)
What will you find after sex drops off the list of priorities?
A new baby, a dying parent, overwhelmed with work, you just don’t have time?
Will you find play, connection, exploration or Peace?
Is it more like a chore, obligation or drudgery?
If you dread the idea of showing up and putting your body in the bed, lack of desire is not the problem, or may not be the problem.
Lack of pleasure is likely the problem.
To “want sex” may be to want the routine pleasures of the body and play.
Sometimes, though, it’s to want something more. With “the more” varies from person to person and changes across the lifespan.
People who have magnificent sex describe sex that gives them far more than pleasure.
It turns them to their partner at a deep, physiological level.
It reveals their own desires to themselves, and it dares them to reveal those desires to a partner. It takes them deeper into their own personhood, even into their own divinity, and takes them deeper into their partner’s internal world.
How far would you go to create that in your life?
What kind of sex is worth wanting?
What will you find after sex drops off the list of priorities?
A new baby, a dying parent, overwhelmed with work, you just don’t have time?
Will you find play, connection, exploration or Peace?
Is it more like a chore, obligation or drudgery?
If you dread the idea of showing up and putting your body in the bed, lack of desire is not the problem, or may not be the problem.
Lack of pleasure is likely the problem.
To “want sex” may be to want the routine pleasures of the body and play.
Sometimes, though, it’s to want something more. With “the more” varies from person to person and changes across the lifespan.
People who have magnificent sex describe sex that gives them far more than pleasure.
It turns them to their partner at a deep, physiological level.
It reveals their own desires to themselves, and it dares them to reveal those desires to a partner. It takes them deeper into their own personhood, even into their own divinity, and takes them deeper into their partner’s internal world.
How far would you go to create that in your life?
What kind of sex is worth wanting?
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