Archive for the ‘women’ Category

Nerve.com Interview With Eric Amaranth, Sex Life Coach

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Nerve.com Interviews Eric Amaranth and Asks About Sex and Better Sex It was fun doing this interview. There was a lot of great material that didn’t make it in as well. The young woman said she thoroughly enjoyed our talk. I was happy to hear that not for typical reasons, but I could also hear [...]

Slut: Decoding The Social Pressure Women Endure

Sunday, February 10th, 2013

The Social Reasoning For and Problems Made By The Use of the Word “Slut” I was in one of my Talk Sessions with a client recently when she told me about how she always felt a need for a healthy and high-quality sex life, but those ideals were met with the world, and later her [...]

A Sex and Breakup Issue That’s Never Discussed

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Breaking up with someone when your sexual skills don’t seem to work on your partner. No one talks about it. It makes an ego sting when what one does well in bed fails. Blame is placed on the other person when much better responses exist. Here are some tips for dealing with this before deciding [...]

A Sex Life Coach’s Commentary On Fifty Shades of Grey

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Many have heard about the “Fifty Shades of Grey” series of fiction books which is a trilogy of developed romantic storyline plus erotica. What I’ve been reading in most erotica over the years are sex descriptions of orgasm that are more fiction than fact. Principally, causes of a woman’s orgasm that reinforces very unrealistic expectations [...]

Sex Life Coaching Answer To: “Am I Normal?”

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Sex Life Coach Eric Amaranth responds to the common sex question: “Am I normal?” Sex therapists, educators, and sex life coaches alike all get this question on a weekly basis. People have things in their sex lives that are hot for them, have desires to do things, look at how much sex they’re having and [...]

One of Eric Amaranth’s Favorite Sex Toys: The Liberte Vibrator

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

When I choose sex toys for myself and my clients, I select ones that are most effective for specific uses that may or may not be what they were originally designed for. Necessity as the mother of innovation, in this case, directs how I recommend my clients the best sex toys and more importantly, teach [...]

Mythical Sex Addiction vs Real Sex Addiction

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

There is, in my professional opinion, both mythical and real sex addiction. I sent this description to a reporter responding to the upcoming book by David Ley: The Myth of Sex Addiction. I’d been planning a blog post along these lines for a while now. Read on to understand the difference between mythical and real [...]

Eric Amaranth’s Thoughts On and Critique of the Book, “The Female Brain”

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

I just finished reading Dr. Louann Brizendine’s book, The Female Brain, and in this post, I’ll focus mainly on her section about female sexual response and orgasm. The preceding chapters were interesting. They detailed girlhood and teen behaviors as heavily influenced, according to Dr. Brizendine, by the hormone fluctuations of the brain. The other chapters [...]

When Psychologists Ignore or Dismiss the Body.

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Eric Amaranth’s response to the lack of mind and body integration in psychology ‘s view of what makes us orgasm. Below is a response I wrote recently to an article on www.psychologytoday.com by Stanley Siegel, LCSW. Click here for his full article. I semi-support his theory, however, I disagreed with a position he takes that [...]

Another Relationship Saved, Thanks To The New Sex Therapy

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

An engaged couple’s iffy sex life is strengthened and fired up by Eric Amaranth’s Sex Life Coaching. Below is the email I received from a recent client we’ll call “Melissa,” who is engaged to “Travis”. She completed a package of only two Talk Session sex life coaching sessions. I followed up to see how she [...]