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Mars and Venus in the Bedroom: Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion, a

by John Gray

Mars and Venus in the Bedroom: Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion, a Cover

ISBN13: 9780060927936
ISBN10: 0060927933
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He wants sex. She wants romance. Sometimes it seems as if our partners are from different planets, as if he's from Mars and she's from Venus. In the bedroom, it is obvious that men and women are different, but we may not realize just how different we are. It is only through understanding and accepting our obvious and less obvious differences that we can achieve true intimacy and great sex.

Why Sex Is So Important

We're all aware that sex tends to be more important to men while romance is more important to women, but we generally don't understand why. Without a deeper understanding of this fundamental difference, women commonly underestimate the importance of sex for men and many times judge them as superficial for wanting only one thing.

A woman's judgments begin to soften when she discovers the real reasons that some men seem to want only sex. With a deeper understanding of our sexual differences based on our historical development and social conditioning, she can begin to understand why, for many men, sexual arousal is the key for helping them connect with and realize their loving feelings.

For many men, sexual arousal is the key for helping them connect with and realize their loving feelings.

It is through sex that a man's heart opens, allowing him to experience both his loving feelings and his hunger for love as well. Ironically, it is sex that allows a man to feel his needs for love, while it is receiving love that helps a woman to feel her hunger for sex.

Sex allows a man to feel his needs for love, while receiving love helps a woman to feel her hunger for sex.

A man often misunderstands a woman's real need for romance and may feel instead that she iswithholding sex. When he wants sex and she is not readily in the mood, he easily misunderstands and feels rejected. He does not instinctively realize that a woman generally needs to feel loved and romanced before she can feel her hunger for sex.

Just as a woman needs good communication with her partner to feel loved and loving, a man needs sex. Certainly, a man can feel loved in other ways, but the most powerful way a woman's love can touch his soul and open his heart is through great sex.

What Makes Sex Great

Ideally, for sex to be great there must be loving and supportive communication in the relationship. This is the first step. When communication works, all the bedroom skills in this book can be most easily applied.

If communication in a relationship is OK, hearing and using the ideas in this book will dramatically increase the passion and quality of sex. When sex gets better, suddenly the whole relationship gets better. Through great sex, the man begins to feel more love, and, as a result, the woman starts getting the love she may have been missing. Automatically, communication and intimacy increase.

When sex gets better, suddenly the whole relationship automatically gets better.

When a couple is experiencing relationship problems, sometimes, instead of focusing on the problems, taking a shortcut and creating great sex immediately reduces the problems and makes them easier to solve. To most effectively solve relationship problems and ensure lasting intimacy and better communication, I recommend that you read my other books, "What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You & Your Father Didn't Know "and "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus." Sometimes, however, themost effective way to jumpstart a relationship is to first learn the bedroom skills for creating great sex.

Great sex is the most powerful way to open a man's heart and help him to feel his love and express it to a woman. Great sex softens a woman's heart and helps her to relax and receive her partner's support in other areas of the relationship. This softening of her feelings dramatically improves her ability to communicate in a manner that her partner can hear without becoming defensive. This improved communication in turn provides a basis for sex to remain passionate.

Great sex is the most powerful way to open a man's heart and help him to feel his love and express it to a woman.

Why Another Book on Sex?

While many useful books address the mechanics of sex, this book addresses the mechanics of making sure you have sex. Through new approaches for communicating, you will learn how to initiate sex in ways that assure that both your sexual needs and your partner's are satisfied. In addition, we will explore the psychological differences between men and women in a way that will help you understand what works best for your partner.

Most books focus on what men and women physically need, but few address their unique psychological needs as well. This book leads men and women toward sexual fulfillment both physically and emotionally. Not only are men grateful when women learn this information, but women experience greater happiness in and out of the bedroom. I receive so many letters from couples after they take my seminars saying that they are now enjoying the best sex they ever had. Sometimes these couples have been married only a few years, but some of them have beenmarried for more than thirty years.

Advanced Bedroom Skills

Women today expect more from sex than ever before. It used to be that sex was primarily a way a woman fulfilled her husband. For many of our mothers, sex was something she did for him and not for herself. But now that birth control is more reliable and available and society is much more accepting of women's sexual needs and desires, women have greater permission to explore and enjoy their sensual side. For many women, a growing interest in sex also reflects their need to find balance within themselves by reconnecting with their feminine side.

Having spent most of the day in a traditionally male job, she too wants a "wife" to greet "her" with love when she gets home. She too wants to enjoy the release that sex brings. Great sex fulfills her as much as it fulfills him. To cope with the stress of the modern workplace, not only does he need her support, but she needs his as well. Through learning new relationship skills, men and women can solve this problem together.

Advanced bedroom skills are required if a man is to provide his partner with the sexual fulfillment that she now requires. The more traditional bedroom skills men and women have used for centuries are outdated. It is not enough for a man to have his way with a woman. She wants more. She wants her orgasm too. He must learn her way as well.

Just as women want more, men also want more. Men don't want to give up passion in their relationships. More and more, both men and women would rather get a divorce than stay in a passionless marriage.

Neither sex is willing to put up with the old system of a man having discreet affairs to fulfill his sexual passionwhile a woman sacrifices her need for passion in favor of maintaining the family unit. AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases make extramarital affairs far more dangerous than they were in the past. A modern man wants his partner to value sex in a way that allows him to stay passionately connected to her and their relationship. To achieve this end, advanced bedroom skills are required for both men and women.

In the first twelve chapters of "Mars and Venus in the Bedroom," we will explore how to create great sex in bed, and then, in chapter 13, we will explore the importance of romance outside the bedroom to keep the passion alive.

Why Couples Stop Having Sex

Quite commonly, after being married for several years, one of the partners stops wanting sex. Although the partner feels as if he or she has simply lost interest in sex, the disinterest is really caused because certain conditions for wanting sex are

Synopsis:

Can you keep the fires of passion burning?

Men and women have very different physical needs. But Dr. John Gray explains how both can make small but important adjustments in their attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that their partners are happy in the bedroom — and outside of it.

Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come only from Dr. Gray, Mars and Venus in the Bedroom educate men and women on:

  • Advanced bedroom skills for great sex
  • The joys of quickies
  • Why couples are having less sex
  • Passionate monogamy
  • Sexual anatomy and oral sex
  • How to keep the magic of romance alive
  • And much more

Synopsis:

< p> < em> Can you keep the fires of passion burning?< /em> < /p> < p> Men and women have very different physical needs. But Dr. John Gray explains how both can make small but important adjustments in their attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that their partners are happy in the bedroom — and outside of it.< /p> < p> Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come only from Dr. Gray, Mars and Venus in the Bedroom educate men and women on: < /p> < ul> < li> Advanced bedroom skills for great sex< /li> < li> The joys of quickies< /li> < li> Why couples are having less sex< /li> < li> Passionate monogamy< /li> < li> Sexual anatomy and oral sex< /li> < li> How to keep the magic of romance alive< /li> < li> And much more< /li> < /ul>

About the Author

John Gray, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of communication and relationships. The author of fifteen books, he has been conducting personal-growth seminars for more than thirty years and writes "Mars Venus Advice," a weekly syndicated column that has appeared in more than one hundred media outlets, including Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press. He also has a weekly Internet broadcast with over two million listeners at Marsvenus.com. Gray has been a contributing editor at Redbook and a contributor to ivillage.com, Brides, and Divorce magazines. He lives with his wife and three children in Northern California.

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kasibiwy, September 26, 2006 (view all comments by kasibiwy)
I first read this book (Mars and Venus in the Bedroom) when I was eight years old, much too young to really have an understanding of the differences between men and women. Even as a total amateur with very little understanding, this book taught me very many important things about sexuality. It carefully explained to me how and why men and women think and act differently, and taught me many things that have helped to shape my morals through puberty and continue to cause me to grow into a sexually healthier and monogamous human being. It also taught me many very important things about sex. The first girl I was ever with didn't believe that I was a virgin, because I knew too well what she wanted me to do! I think that everyone should read this book!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060927936
Subtitle:
Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion, a
Author:
Gray, John
Author:
by John Gray
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York, NY
Subject:
General
Subject:
Sexuality - Manuals
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Sexuality
Subject:
Love & Romance
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Intimacy (psychology)
Subject:
Intimacy.
Subject:
Sexual Instruction
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Series Volume:
no. 307
Publication Date:
January 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.01x5.31x.58 in. .38 lbs.

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