Sexual Health
We want to share with you helpful strategies and techniques to integrate into your sexual health, now and in the years ahead, features that we have learned from our many years of teaching and clinical experience with men and couples. Chapter 2, “Healthy Th inking About Male Sexuality,” summarizes important knowledge for healthy sex. We explain how to organize your thinking (cognitions), understand your feelings (emotions), as well as wisely manage your actions (behaviors).
Among 10 features to integrate into your personal sexual style are appreciating the multiple purposes for sex, how to use the three styles of sexual arousal, the importance of regulating your sex drive, viewing sex through the lens of being an intimate team, and understanding why and how Good-Enough Sex is the best sex model. Chapter 3, “Boys to Men: What Is Normal and Healthy?” describes how we learn about sex as boys and summarizes behaviors of children, adolescents, and young adults. Th ese data help you understand normal and healthy developmental sexuality and the infl uences and experiences that have formed who you are as a man.
