McCarthy, B, & Barry, E. (2003). Rekindling Desire: A Step-by-Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Rekindling Desire, a practical guide to getting sex and intimacy back into low-sex and no-sex marriages, is based on a 10 step program. As sex and marital experts, Barry and Emily McCarthy, offer advice in a straight forward, easy to read manner and provide the reader with clinical examples to illustrate the 10 steps. Their book, however, is so much more than a how-to handbook. The authors base their advice on the premise that revitalizing sexual desire is a couple task. To this end, they suggest a team approach that begins with rooting out “poisons,” such as shame, guilt, anger and passivity that can inhibit sexual desire. By helping couples think about the barriers that may interfere with sexual intimacy, the McCarthys sensitively and effectively lay out strategies that not only can spark a more satisfying sexual relationship, but can also rebuild emotional closeness.
Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages
