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Better Sex Through Mindfulness

Lori A. Brotto

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Dr. Lori Brotto dismantles the myth of spontaneous female desire, revealing that 15 to 31 percent of women worldwide experience persistent sexual difficulties rooted not in hormones but in attention. Drawing on Masters & Johnson's research, Rosemary Basson's responsive desire model, and her own eight-session mindfulness program at the University of British Columbia, she shows how interoceptive awareness dissolves the sexual discordance between mind and body. The raisin exercise becomes a gateway to reclaiming sensation.

You'll learn:

- Why the incentive motivation model replaced "spontaneous" arousal

- How interoception bridges mental and physical sexual response

- What sensate focus techniques reveal about attention and pleasure

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