Sex in Recovery ─ A Meeting Between the Covers

An important part of the recovery journey is exploring what it means to have an intimate relationship in sobriety. Many of us have never experienced sex in a healthy relationship without being numbed out with drugs and alcohol. The concept of sober sex may seem like uncharted waters and leave you feeling like you don’t know how to swim.

In this groundbreaking book, Jennifer Matesa explores how you, as a person in recovery, can reclaim your God-given sex powers” and experience the honest physical pleasure that fulfills your need for healthy connection and intimacy.

Through a combination of candid, affirming testimonies from people from across a wide spectrum of genders and sexual orientations, advice from professionals, and Matesa’s own insights, you will come to understand how sexual energy can be a healthy life-force that heals and provides motivation for engagement in other productive areas of life: work, family, and community.

Jennifer Matesa has written about health for more than twenty years and authors the award-winning blogGuinevere Gets Sober. She is a regular contributor to TheFix.com, and in 2013 she became a fellow of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She is the author ofThe Recovering Body (Hazelden, 2014).