In the newest edition of this classic text, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy explain how desire, pleasure, and satisfaction can enrich your relationship. As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness focuses on factors that promote and subvert healthy couple sexuality. Reading this book and partaking in the psychosocial skill exercises it contains will help couples learn how to value sexuality as a positive and satisfying part of their lives. Couples at any stage of their relationship will learn how to enhance sexual awareness, communication, feelings, and function. The result will be enhanced desire and eroticism that will help couples understand themselves and each other better.

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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Enhancing Sexual Awareness Getting Started
- Chapter 2 Reawakening Your Sensuality Nongenital Pleasuring
- Chapter 3 Whole-Body Touch Genital Pleasuring
- Chapter 4 Self-Exploration and Masturbation
- Chapter 5 Nondemand Pleasuring The Key to Sexual Intimacy
- Chapter 6 Developing Your Couple Sexual Style
- Chapter 7 Bridges to Sexual Desire
- Chapter 8 Erotic Scenarios and Techniques
- Chapter 9 Pleasuring, Eroticism, and Intercourse
- Chapter 10 Sexuality and Aging
- Chapter 11 Your Sexual Voice
- Chapter 12 Couple Sexual Desire
- Chapter 13 Female Pleasure and Eroticism
- Chapter 14 Female Sexuality Becoming Orgasmic
- Chapter 15 Dealing with Female Sexual Pain
- Chapter 16 Arousal and Erection
- Chapter 17 Learning Ejaculatory Control
- Chapter 18 Confronting Ejaculatory Inhibition
- Chapter 19 Preventing Relapse Maintaining Resilient Couple Sexuality
- Appendix A: Choosing a Couple or Sex Therapist
- Appendix B: Resources—Books, Videos, and Trusted Websites
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