Sex Outside the Lines ─ Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Culture

Is Your Sex Life "Normal"?

Boy meets girl. The connection is electric. They fall in love, marry and have amazing sex. Soon there are children, and then grandchildren. They grow old, loving one another for the rest of their lives.

What’s wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing, if you are one of the relatively small group of people whose lives work out this way.

What’s wrong is that we’ve defined this as ?normal,” which makes most of us ?abnormal.”

In Sex Outside the Lines, Dr. Chris Donaghue describes the holes in society’s definition of ?normal,” taking a sharp eye to institutions such as marriage, cheating, virginity, identity, and sexual orientation. He also examines all the ways that accepting society’s ?truths” have led to the demise of long-term relationships and sexual pleasure. All of this misinformation is showing up in your bedroom and preventing you from having the sex life you’re entitled to.

In Donaghue’s years of training in sex and couples therapy, he has developed highly successful methods for freeing clients from sexual hang-ups, enabling them to let go of shame and embarrassment. Donaghue pulls apart cultural phobias with a ?sex positive” therapy practice, a kind of sexual deprograming that helps people see and accept the desires they have?even if they don’t align with societal expectations?are really natural, healthy, and part of having a great sex life.

Chris Donaghue, PhD, LCSW, CST, is a doctor of clinical sexology and human sexuality, trained doctorally in clinical psychology, licensed clinical therapist, nationally certified sex therapist. Dr. Donaghue specializes in the sexuality spectrum and sexually-related compulsive behaviors such as sexual compulsivity/sex addiction, as well as marital and relational disorders. Dr. Donaghue runs his own private practice specializing in individual and couples sex therapy in Beverly Hills California.

Dr. Donaghue is nationally recognized as a sex and relationship expert, lecturing at Universities, and appearing on Logo TV’sBad Sex, and having been featured in Newsweek, and seen on CNN, OWN, Dr. Drew’sLifechangers, and National Geographic.