“Fifty Shades of Grey” from a New York Couples Counselor point of view
Fifty Shades of Grey: REBT Style (Yes I am going there!) Without spoiling the plot of the book “Fifty Shades of Grey”, I got to thinking about one character… Dr.Flynn. Flynn is Christian Grey’s therapist (but I bet you already knew that… since you read the book. Hey it’s ok I read all three.) I was interested in his approach while working with Christian. Although it is...
Read More“Sex Therapist- doesn’t that mean you sleep with your clients?”
I have been interested in sexuality for as long as I can remember, which, incidentally, is about as long as I knew I was gay. I had wanted to go into the mental health field, and as soon as I took my first sexuality course my sophomore year at college, I knew that this was the direction I wanted to pursue. I took as many courses I could find, which surprisingly for the University of...
Read MoreThe Disconnect Between Desires and Cultural Norms
Why are our bodies and desires telling us one thing (being sexually attracted to many people even though we are in a relationship) and society telling us another, (we must never sleep with anyone else if we are in a relationship)? The situation of being attracted to someone else yet in a relationship can lead to extraordinarily stressful questions. You might ask yourself, ‘am I wrong...
Read MoreWhen emotions get physical
I was recently thinking about how our bodies give us physical signs when we are experiencing different emotions. When I was younger, I used to get so frustrated at how easily my face would flush red when I was experiencing emotion. It was not always when I was embarrassed; I would blush when I was feeling nervous, called on in class, talking to a new person, mad, and many other...
Read MoreYogic Psychotherapy – Part I
Non-dual, yogic philosophy teaches us that we are all emanations of the One (Shiva, God, Consciousness, Love, Essence, Nature, etc.) This perspective has many implications for the practice of psychotherapy – let’s turn our attention to just a couple. First of all, as human beings our lives are ALL sacred, no matter how each of us thinks, feels and behaves. In other words, the...
Read MoreREBT Intro # 4
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Read MoreRT @drdemarco: “Porn Addiction”- A sad sad meme – I’d encourage some reading: “Sex at Da
RT @drdemarco: “Porn Addiction”- A sad sad meme – I’d encourage some reading: “Sex at Dawn” by Ryan and Jetha and “Sex… http://tumblr. … Share this:Share
Read Morefrom the book “Sex at Dawn”, out now!">from the book “Sex at Dawn”, out now!
This split-personality relationship with our true sexual nature is anything but news to entertainment corporations, who have long reflected the same fractured sensibility between public pronouncement and private desire. In 2000, under the headline “Wall Street Meets Pornography,” The New York Times reported that General Motors sold more graphic sex films than Larry Flynt, owner of...
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Read MoreVirginity: Much Ado About Fucking
Virginity comes from the Latin “virgo” which means sexually inexperienced woman. You can see already there’s a problem. Notice how this did not mean sexually inexperienced person. Today it generally means the same thing, although we try to have it mean someone who has never had “sex”. You see the next problem, yes? How the hell do you define sex? Someone once said...
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