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When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? This book looks at the story of sex in committed couples.

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'An elegant sociological study, complete with erudite literary and anthropological references' * Daily Telegraph *
'Reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan and French Women Don't Get Fat' * The New Yorker *
'At precisely the same moment that you're being shocked by her, you're also acknowledging the validity of her ideas. Perel's ideas are like the chorus of a really good pop song - instantly familiar because they resonate deeply. It's all rather terrifying in its intuitiveness and its pure rightness' * Observer *

Mating in Captivity

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    A Paperback / softback by Esther Perel

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      Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
      Published 20 September 2007
      ISBN-13 9780340943755
      978-0340943755
      ISBN-10 0340943750
      Also in:
      Non Fiction Health & Wellbeing Sex and sexuality: advice, topics and issues Politics, Philosophy & Society Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? This book looks at the story of sex in committed couples.

      Trade Review
      'An elegant sociological study, complete with erudite literary and anthropological references' * Daily Telegraph *
      'Reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan and French Women Don't Get Fat' * The New Yorker *
      'At precisely the same moment that you're being shocked by her, you're also acknowledging the validity of her ideas. Perel's ideas are like the chorus of a really good pop song - instantly familiar because they resonate deeply. It's all rather terrifying in its intuitiveness and its pure rightness' * Observer *

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