Her clients and platforms include companies such as Nike, Johnson & Johnson and Mopar, the Open Society Institute, Tony Robbins Productions, Summit Series, Founder’s Forum, PopTech, Young Presidents Organization, Entrepreneur Organization, and the Bronfman Foundation.

She is regularly sought around the world for her expertise in erotic intelligence, couples and family identity as well as corporate relationships and team collaboration. Known for her keen cross-cultural pulse, Esther shifts the paradigm of our approach to modern relationships. Her critically acclaimed viral TED talk reached nearly 5 million viewers in the first year. The New York Times, in a cover story, named her the most important game changer on sexuality and relationships since Dr. Fluent in nine of them, the Belgian native is a practicing psychotherapist, celebrated speaker and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 companies. She is the best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, translated into 25 languages. ©2006 Esther Perel (P)2006 HarperCollins PublishersĮsther Perel is recognized as one of the world’s most original and insightful voices on personal and professional relationships. Flinging the doors open on erotic life and domesticity, she invites us to put the 'X' back in sex. While Mating in Captivity shows why the domestic realm can feel like a cage, Perel's take on bedroom dynamics promises to liberate, enchant, and provoke. More exciting, playful, even poetic sex is possible, but first we must kick egalitarian ideals and emotional housekeeping out of our bedrooms. It thrives on power plays, unfair advantages, and the space between self and other. Sexual excitement doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship.

In this explosively original book, Perel explains that our cultural penchant for equality, togetherness, and absolute candor is antithetical to erotic desire for both men and women. They describe relationships that are open and loving, yet sexually dull. In her 20 years of clinical experience, Perel has treated hundreds of couples whose home lives are empty of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion.

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