A question of authority One afternoon 25 years ago, I found myself on a witness stand [...]
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On staying faithful in Hollywood and elsewhere
July 27 After news of the Kristen Stewart mini-scandal broke this week, I was contacted by IBTimes writer Justine Ashley Costanza about infidelity amongst the famous and not-so-famous. With her permission, I’m reprinting the conversation we had in preparation for her IBTimes article that appeared July 25th. Dr Snyder, you’ve said you’re sympathetic [...]
Still further along the road less traveled
“When my beloved first stands before me naked, all open to my sight, there is a feeling throughout the whole of me; awe. Why? If sex is no more than an instinct, why don’t I simply feel horny or hungry? Such simple hunger would be quite sufficient to insure the propagation of the species. Why [...]
What’s so new about the new non-monogamy?
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 via Creative Commons “Monogamy Lite” For those of you who missed “Open Marriage,” the ethical non-monogamy movement of the 70’s: Ethical non-monogamy is back. Not that it ever actually disappeared. But it seems to be making news again. Last year the New York Times bestselling book Sex at Dawn (extensively reviewed [...]
The search for sexual sanity continues
Now that Representative Anthony Weiner is reported to be seeking professional help, one question seems to be on many people’s minds: Help for what? That’s not clear. Sending suggestive photos of oneself to young women is clearly personally and professionally hazardous. But does it reflect a disorder requiring treatment? Common sense would say that [...]
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Rearch (SSTAR): Presentation of the 2011 SSTAR Consumer Book Award to Sex at Dawn
I just returned from the annual spring meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). The Society gathers leading sex clinicians and researchers from all over the country and the world, and features the most recent developments in sexual science and practice. As a member of SSTAR’s Consumer Book Award committee, I had the privilege [...]
The year in clinical sexuality, 2010
As we get ready to close the books on 2010, I would like to express my gratitude to family, friends, and colleagues for your support and encouragement over the past year. And to all my patients for your trust and confidence. May we all merit much happiness in 2011. In ending the year, [...]
The SexualityResource Interview: Sex At Dawn’s Christopher Ryan on human sexual prehistory
(Reprinted from Dr Snyder’s PsychologyToday blog, “SexualityToday”) Recently, Sexuality Resource reviewed Sex at Dawn, a new book drawing on a vast amount of cultural and physical anthropological scholarship to suggest that our human ancestors lived in sexually promiscuous groups of hunter-gatherers. And that the development 10,000 years ago of agriculture, an ownership society, and sexual [...]
Will “Sex at Dawn” influence sex therapy?
Recently, Sexuality Resource reviewed Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha’s Sex at Dawn – a new book drawing on a vast amount of cultural and physical anthropological scholarship to argue that for our hunter-gatherer ancestors, sexual promiscuity may have been an established way of life. And that the development 10,000 years ago of agriculture, an ownership society, and sexual [...]
Sexuality Resource reviews “Sex at Dawn,” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
We moderns tend to think of sexuality as the province of more-or-less monogamous couples, bound together by bonds of love, romantic possessiveness, and jealousy. But according to Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, at the “dawn” of mankind — the vast era dating from 200,000 to 10,000 years ago – things were quite different. In their [...]
Infidelity at the office, and how to avoid it.
The following is reprinted from Dr Snyder’s article “Are you ready for the truth?” — with permission from the original Italian publisher – WorkStyle Magazine Vol 4 (p. 32-33), July 2010. Because they’re there. The most common reason romantic love happens with coworkers is simply because they’re there. We spend a lot of time at [...]
