Enduring Desire Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy

Winner of the 2011 AASECT Book Award!

Co-authors of Men?s Sexual Health, Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy have come together to inspire and motivate readers in their newest book, Enduring Desire. Real-life examples and clear, helpful individual and couple exercises allow readers to reach for realistic and high quality sexual satisfaction as a couple. Throughout the book, the authors promote positive, realistic sexual expectations without commercialism and the hyped, exotic promises that only set people up for disappointment. The message is down-to-earth and full of joy for all couples from their 20s to their 80s. The authors advocate the variable, flexible "Good Enough Sex" (GES) model, which validates the inherent variability and flexibility of couple sexuality and examines the biopsychosocial, multidimensional, and comprehensive roles, functions and meanings of couple sexuality.

Real Sex for Couples: The New Way of Thinking. Your Growth Goals for Quality Sex. Your Expectations and Sexual Satisfaction. The Best Sex is Relationship Sex. Creating Your Couple Sexual Style. Intimate Teamwork: The Environment for GES. Celebrating Your Sexual Being: Confident Sex. The Gender Team. Sexual Pleasure and Function. Flexibility and Variability Build Enduring Quality. Real-life Sex: Regular, Playful, and Special. "Good Enough Sex": Putting it All Together. Appendix A: Choosing an Individual, Couple, or Sex Therapist. Appendix B: Resources: Books, Videos, and Trusted Websites.

Michael E. Metz, PhD, is a psychologist and marital and sex therapist in private practice in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, treating individuals and couples. For 12 years Dr. Metz served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Family Practice & Community Health, directed the marital & sex therapy program, and for 18 years served as adjunct assistant professor with the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science. He is a major spokesperson for a comprehensive, integrated biopsychosocial approach to addressing and resolving relationship and sexual problems. As a clinician he has worked with more than 6,000 couples for a variety of relationship and sexual problems

Barry W. McCarthy, PhD, is a certified marital and sex therapist and practices at the Washington Psychological Center, USA. He was recipient of the 2009 Smart Marriages Impact Award