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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How Much Sex Should You Be Having?
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How Much Sex Should You Be Having?Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, best-selling author and keynote speaker. You can also find her here, sharing her latest thoughts about sex. If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re having “enough” sex, you’re not alone. As a couples and sex therapist, one of the most common questions I hear is: How often should we…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Is Mental Health Messing with Your Sexual Mojo?
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Is Mental Health Messing with Your Sexual Mojo?Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, best-selling author and keynote speaker. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. If you’re in midlife, you might be wondering why you’ve gone from “Let’s get it on” to “Please get off me.” And you…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How Is AI Affecting Sex and Relationships?
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How Is AI Affecting Sex and Relationships?Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, best-selling author and keynote speaker. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. A few months ago, Rachel, a client in her late 40s sat across from me and said something that caught me off guard. “I think Jake is having an…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Sex Recession
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Sex RecessionEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, best-selling author and speaker. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. I had spent about four months working with Lauren and Jason, a couple in their mid 50’s, on the sexual decline they’d suffered over the last decade of their relationship.…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How to Share a Sexual Fantasy with Your Partner
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How to Share a Sexual Fantasy with Your PartnerEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. When Camilla first brought up the topic of sexual fantasies in therapy, she laughed nervously. “I have this one recurring fantasy,” she said, “but I could never tell my husband.…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: When Is Pornography a Problem?
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: When Is Pornography a Problem?Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. September is Sexual Health Awareness Month. I sat across from Jeremy and his wife, Sonia, in their first session with me. Sonia was fuming. Jeremy fidgeted, eyes fixed on the…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Vacation Sex
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Vacation SexEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is an award-winning sex and couples therapist and author of the USA Today best-selling book, Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. My client Cara couldn’t stop smiling as she settled into my office.…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Starting Again — Navigating Sex and Dating After Divorce or Loss
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Starting Again — Navigating Sex and Dating After Divorce or LossEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author of the USA Today Best-Selling book, Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion, and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Janeane, a new client, sat across from me in my therapy office, her…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Alcohol, Women and Sex
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Alcohol, Women and SexEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. “Do you want to come up for a drink?” We all know what that means, right? Alcohol and sex have long been connected in our culture from romanticized depictions in…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Asexuality
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: AsexualityEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, USA Today Best-Selling author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. As a sex and relationship therapist, I’ve made it my mission to help people feel secure and confident in their sexuality. Most of the time, I work…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Maintaining a Strong Sexual Connection During Midlife
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Maintaining a Strong Sexual Connection During MidlifeEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Her book, Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion is available everywhere books are sold. I was recently sucked into the novel “All Fours” by Miranda…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Rise of Erotic Asphyxiation
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Rise of Erotic AsphyxiationEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Lately, it seems like everyone’s more comfortable talking about their sexual preferences. And with this openness — does their freak match your freak? — sexual expression has evolved, with preferences…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Understanding Sex Addiction
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Understanding Sex AddictionEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. When you think of sex addiction, do Hank Moody from Californication or Brenda Chenoweth from Six Feet Under come to mind? How about David Duchovny, who not only played Hank…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: What Is the Coital Alignment Technique?
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: What Is the Coital Alignment Technique?Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Pick up a book on sexual positions, and even the most in-shape, flexible person is likely to feel intimidated by images that depict bodies twisted into pretzels in the name…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Body Image and Sex
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Body Image and SexEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. There’s a comedy skit online featuring Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Patricia Arquette joking about how Hollywood determines the age when a woman is no longer, ahem, sexually…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Finding Your Sexual Flow
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Finding Your Sexual FlowEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Serena and Jake returned for a check-in session. It had been two months since we rounded out our therapy together, but — like most clients — they wanted an “accountability”…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Sexual Fluidity
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Sexual FluidityEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Close your eyes and imagine yourself 10 years ago. What were you interested in? What were some of your preferences? What kinds of relationships did you have? Now open your…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Healing After Sexual Assault
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Healing After Sexual AssaultEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. My 2 o’clock client, Nicola, sat across from me on the sofa, her legs tucked under her. She glanced out the window at the…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How to Have a Good Spring Fling
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: How to Have a Good Spring FlingEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Spring is here, and with it comes a sense of renewal and freedom, a departure from the norm. This season can be an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Benefits of Masturbation
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: The Benefits of MasturbationEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. It was a chilly, gray January day when my new clients Amy and Noah came for their first appointment. I brewed us all some tea and lit a candle, and…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Pleasure and Pain
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Pleasure and PainEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Good sex only happens when there’s mutual consent and mutual pleasure. But unfortunately, women often struggle to experience pleasure during sex and many actually experience significant discomfort and even pain.…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Sex Toys 101
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Sex Toys 101Emily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Play. Stop for a moment and consider what comes up for you as you think about that word. If you’re like most folks, you probably reminisce about childhood — a…
