Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually

Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture

Itâ€™s socially acceptable to spend a day watching sports or sitcoms, but itâ€™s shameful and embarrassing to admit to the same about erotic media. Why is it that sex is so often deemed Â“inappropriateâ€ and considered something we must keep private or even ignore?

Our culture is afraid of sex. We feel the need to label what is normal and what isnâ€™t, and as a result, we live in a relational and sexually unhealthy culture. In reality, far more harm is caused by labeling sexual expression as Â“obsceneâ€ than by celebrating it.

In Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture, Chris Donaghue, PhD, explores and challenges the negative ideals that have warped societyâ€™s view of sex. Sex Outside the Lines is not a dogmatic rule book, but a valuable guide to help you on your journey to sexual self-discovery and, most important, self-acceptance. Donaghue encourages you to not only explore your capacity for pleasure, but to be proud of it and to take a look at how you could be living.

In his years of training in sex and couples therapy, Donaghue has developed highly successful methods for freeing clients from sexual hang-ups, enabling them to let go of shame and embarrassment. The goal isnâ€™t to be Â“normalâ€Â—there is no such thing. Donaghue pulls apart cultural phobias with a sex-positive therapy practice, as well as a kind of sexual deprograming that helps people see and accept that the desires they haveÂ—even if they donâ€™t align with societyâ€™s expectationsÂ—are actually natural, healthy, and part of having a great sex life.

Sex Outside the Lines addresses our diversity, challenges conventional psychiatric wisdom as classifying perfectly normal behavior as disorders, and disregards conventional advice from leading experts. It isnâ€™t advocating a Â“liberalâ€ approach to modern conceptsÂ—it is seeking to redefine them altogether.
Country USA
Manufacturer BenBella Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-07-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	BenBella Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-07-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture

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