The Return of Desire: A Guide

The Return of Desire
A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion

By Gina Ogden

Paperback; 224 pages

A nationally known sex therapist offers an in-depth look at low sex drive among women – with information and exercises for reviving female desire and sexual pleasure

According to an often-quoted study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association 43% of American women suffer from low libido. In The Return of Desire respected sex therapist and researcher Gina Ogden offers a new understanding of this surprising and troubling statistic moving beyond hormones drugs and other medical perspectives to address the mental emotional and relational dynamics that can dampen desire.

Based on her recent national sex survey and on decades of clinical practice Dr. Ogden offers readers scores of insights approaches and exercises to help them understand how sexual desire can decrease or even disappear in relationships and what they can do about it. She shows you how to:

• Open up to the four energies that spark desire
• Create heart-to-heart communication with your partner
• Transcend guilt shame and good-girls-don't messages
• Help heal the sexual wounds of abuse addiction affairs and low self-esteem
• Enjoy sexual pleasure throughout your life span – from new love to parenthood and into your golden years