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. Whats wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing, if you are one of the relatively small group of people whose lives work out this way.Whats wrong is that weve defined this as normal, which makes most of us abnormal.In Sex Outside the Lines, Dr.

Chris Donaghue describes the holes in societys 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 societys 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 youre entitled to.In Donaghues 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 haveeven if they dont align with societal expectationsare really natural, healthy, and part of having a great sex life.