Why good sex matters : understanding the neuroscience of pleasure for a smarter, happier, and more purpose-filled life

Reveals the fundamental problem in how we think about sex and pleasure but also how we arrived at this problematic relationship to begin with.

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ISBN: 9781328451309
Physical Description 252 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

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Why Good Sex Matters : Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life

by Wise, Nan

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	p. ix
	The Pleasure Crisis and the Path to Healthy Hedonism
1	The Theft of Pleasure	p. 3
2	The Sexual Route to Understanding Pleasure	p. 25
3	The Core Emotions in the Brain's Basement	p. 39
	Restoring The Emotional Brain
4	Rebalancing Your SEEKING System: Liking What You Need	p. 71
5	Hot-Tempered and Afraid: Taming Our Defenses	p. 89
6	CARE, GRIEF, and PLAY: Using Our Affiliative Emotions to Enhance Pleasure	p. 111
	Pursuing-And Obtaining-Healthy Pleasures
7	Operational Intelligence and Creating a New Way to Be	p. 137
8	Sex as a Tool for Transformation	p. 161
9	Good Sex Versus Great Sex: Embracing Your Sexual Potential	p. 187
	A Final Note	p. 211
	Acknowledgments	p. 215
	Notes	p. 217
	Index	p. 243