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Intro -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Confronting Myths About Sexuality and Aging -- Who We Are and the Format of this Book -- Summary -- 2 Embracing the New Normal: Variable, Flexible Couple Sexuality -- The Challenges and Benefits of the New Normal -- The Role of Afterplay in the New Normal -- Is Variable, Flexible Couple Sexuality Better than Autonomous, Predictable Sex? -- Summary -- 3 Sexuality Is More than Intercourse: Challenge, Not Loss -- Affirming Pleasure-Oriented Touching -- Female Sexual Pain with Intercourse -- Valuing Sexuality Without Intercourse -- Summary -- 4 Good Enough Sex (GES): Roles, Meanings, and Outcomes -- GES and Aging -- Gendered Challenges in Implementing GES -- GES in Context -- Summary -- 5 Female-Male Sexual Equity: Being Intimate and Erotic Friends -- Female-Male Sexual Equity -- Relational Equity and Sexual Equity -- Female-Male Sexual Equity -- Do Not Take Sexual Equity for Granted -- Summary -- 6 Desire Is the Key: Reinforcing Sexual Anticipation -- Positive, Realistic Sexual Expectations -- Responsive Sexual Desire for Women and Men -- Maintaining Desire When Intercourse and Orgasm are Lessened -- Summary -- 7 Satisfaction: More than Orgasm -- Individual, Relational, and Sexual Dimensions of Satisfaction -- The Paradox of Sexual Satisfaction -- Dealing with Dissatisfying or Dysfunctional Encounters -- Pride in Beating the Odds and Affirming Couple Sexuality -- Summary -- 8 Naked at Our Age: The Challenge of Integrated Eroticism -- The Core of Eroticism for Couples Over 60 -- The Three Styles of Arousal/Eroticism -- Erotic Challenges for Women -- Erotic Challenges for Men -- Summary -- 9 Couple Sexuality: Valuing Synchronous and Asynchronous Sexuality -- The Joys of Synchronous Sex -- The Joys of Asynchronous Sexuality.

"This accessible guide confronts myths and pressures surrounding men and sex, promoting a positive and healthy model of male sexuality that replaces traditional expectations. With a focus on mutual consent and pleasure, Contemporary Male Sexuality offers a new model of male sexuality that helps men and couples achieve a satisfying, secure, and sexual bond, replacing damaging expectations with healthy sexual values"--

Think all sex should be earth shattering? The quality of most couple sex doesn't measure up to the much distorted image of the perfect romantic love/passionate sex encounter portrayed in popular culture. In "Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction", renowned marital and sex therapist Barry McCarthy and his wife Emily McCarthy urge couples to ignore what they see on TV, in books, or online, and discover their own unique sexual style. The McCarthys offer three guidelines for sexual satisfaction: Develop positive, realistic sexual expectations; e

Although divorce is common, it often holds negative associations. Husband and wife team Barry and Emily McCarthy view divorce and remarriage with optimism, showing it to be a courageous choice that should not be viewed as personal failure but rather as a positive step towards a better life. In Getting it Right This Time, they zoom in on remarriage issues and identify the factors that led to the end of a marriage, using that information to help you learn from past mistakes and start over.Marriage is based on a respectful, trusting relationship, and the McCarthys affirm that remarriage is an imp

LAY SUMMARY Military personnel and Veterans receiving psychotherapy for mental health diagnoses such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often have only modest symptom improvement. The authors wondered whether participating in a therapeutic recreation and creative arts group along with psychotherapy would aid recovery. A 12-week program called the my Social life, Expression, Leisure and Food (mySELF) group was created that offered therapeutic recreation, art, and music therapy. A total of 36 clients, most with PTSD, who had been receiving psychotherapy for an average of three years completed the program and submitted pre- and post-group questionnaires. The authors examined leisure attitudes, quality of life, and mental health symptoms before, immediately after, and four months after the group. Results showed significant improvements in leisure attitudes, environmental quality of life and depression, anxiety, stress, and PTSD symptoms. These preliminary results suggest that therapeutic recreation, art, and music therapy are beneficial for military personnel, Veterans, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police receiving psychotherapy.