Enhancing Couple Sexuality
Creating an Intimate and Erotic Bond

Sexuality is multi-causal and multi-dimensional, with large individual, couple, cultural, and value differences. Each person and couple deserve to experience sexuality as a positive factor in their lives and relationships. Enhancing Couple Sexuality is an accessible guide that will help you to explore couple sexuality, with a focus on promoting healthy sexuality and overcoming sexual dysfunction, conflict and avoidance.

The couple challenge, regardless of relationship status or sexual orientation, is to integrate intimacy and eroticism into your relationship, while reinforcing the new sexual mantra of desire/pleasure/eroticism/ satisfaction. Healthy sexuality is a combination of responsibility for your authentic sexual self and being an intimate sexual team. Each chapter in this book presents scientifically-validated guidelines, a compelling case study, and a psychosexual skill exercise to make every concept personal and concrete.

Enhancing Couple Sexuality will motivate and empower couples to create and maintain a satisfying, secure, and sexual relationship. Whether you are married or dating, 25 or 65, this valuable resource will provide strategies to enhance your sexual relationship now and in the future.

1. Sex Myths: Old and New 2. The New Sexual Mantra 3. Psychobiosocial Model for Understanding and Change 4. Female-Male Sexual Equity 5. Dimensions of Touch, Pleasure, and Sexuality 6. Good Enough Sex (GES) 7. Integrating Intimacy and Eroticism 8. Your Couple Sexual Style 9. Personal Responsibility/Intimate Sexual Team 10. The Paradox of Sexuality 11. Vulnerabilities and Challenges 12. Sexuality and Aging 13. Sexually, One Size Never Fits All 14. Monogamy vs. Consensual Non-Monogamy Appendix A Appendix B References

Barry McCarthy is a professor of psychology at American University, a diplomate in clinical psychology, a diplomate in sex therapy, and a certified couple therapist. He has published over 115 professional articles, 32 book chapters, and 20 books. He has presented over 450 professional workshops nationally and internationally. In 2016, he received the SSTAR Masters and Johnson award for lifetime contributions to the sex therapy field.

Emily McCarthy received a B.S. degree in speech communication, and her writing and wisdom provides a balanced, humanistic perspective. This is Emily and Barry’s 14th co-authored book.