“This is a brave book.refreshing.” - The Times Higher Education Supplement “Well argued points written with considerable eloquence.” - Jerusalem Post “A charming blend of wit and wisdom.this book will give you a fresh perspective on long-term love.” - Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia) “An academic perspective on the deterioration of sex in relationships.Perel offers insightful, progressive theories on how to put the play back into partnerships.” - Daily Record & Sunday Mail “An elegant sociological study, complete with erudite literary and anthropological references.” - Daily Telegraph (London) “Mating in Captivity.articulates a poignant and unacknowledged modern crisis for the first time.” - The Evening Standard (London) “Mating in Captivity takes a hard line against one of the most time-honored institutions in human history: the sexless marriage…It reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan and French Women Don’t Get Fat.” - The New Yorker “Her advice is refreshingly counterintuitive.”. Her writing is fresh and provocative, in a class by itself.” - Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., author of After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful “Perel tells us why intimacy can feel imprisoning and how we can embrace the erotic-without leaving home. “As revelatory as it is straightforward…nicely accessible… offers the estranged modern couple a unique richness of experience.” - Publishers Weekly Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is straightforward, Mating in Captivity is a sensational book that will transform the way you live and love.

Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel demonstrates how more exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in long-term relationships. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.ĭrawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

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