Give me predictability, give me surprise.Īnd we think it's a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that. Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long.

Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. So what sustains desire, and why is it so difficult? And at the heart of sustaining desire in a committed relationship, I think is the reconciliation of two fundamental human needs. It examines the evolution of their relationship, from the initial excitement to the growth of intimacy and the introduction of familiarity. This is the first time that we want sex over time about pleasure and connection that is rooted in desire. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel is a book chapter that explores the journey of John and Beatrice, two people who experienced a blissful state of effervescence in their first six months together. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. And often, the very thing that got us to into our. Our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. In reality, its hard to want what you already have. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire.

“.this is the first time in the history of humankind where we are trying to experience sexuality in the long term, not because we want 14 children, for which we need to have even more because many of them won't make it, and not because it is exclusively a woman's marital duty. One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples.

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