The release date for the English version of 'Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic' by
Esther Perel is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Esther Perel tackles difficult subjects, addressing the problems and fears that surface when our need for passionate fulfillment clashes with our need for safe and stable relationship. She shows how to bring lust home and asks us to investigate the contradictory marriage of domesticity and sexual desire.
Perel has treated hundreds of couples whose home lives lack passion throughout her twenty years of therapy expertise. They speak of loving, honest partnerships that lack a strong sexual component. What is happening?
Perel shows us that sensual desire for both men and women is incompatible with our culture's predilection for equality, unity, and complete transparency in this explosively unique book. Not all sexual arousal follows the principles of good citizenship. It's not appropriate politically. It feeds on the distance between oneself and the other, power struggles, and unjust advantages. We may have sex that is more thrilling, playful, even lyrical, but only if we remove emotional housekeeping and equal ideals from our beds.
While Perel's interpretation of bedroom relations promises to release, fascinate, and arouse, Mating in Captivity demonstrates why the domestic domain may seem like a prison. She asks us to put the "X" back in sex, throwing wide the doors to sexual life and domesticity.
©2006 Esther Perel (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers