Welcome to the Healthy Sex blog. Here we share the latest news and information about Wendy’s media interviews, presentations, and publications. You can find blog posts listed according to topic categories such as Sex & Love, Sex Abuse Healing, Sexual Fantasy, Porn Recovery, Reflections on Sex, and more – as well as by the date posted.
“Reflections on Sex” is a special category of blog posts featured in the Healthy Sex blog. It is sometimes referred to using the abbreviation, RoS. These blog posts serve as a running column, like a newspaper column. In these writings, Wendy shares the most fascinating ideas and insights she gained about sex in her more than forty years of work as a sex educator and therapist. New “Reflections on Sex” blog posts are published periodically and are highlighted on this page. To find out as soon as one is posted follow Wendy Maltz on Twitter or Facebook for announcements.
“Reflections on Sex” provides me an exciting opportunity to examine sex from old and new perspectives and share stories and ideas I haven’t written about before. I’m eager to tell you about the people, experiences, and discoveries that caught my attention and influenced my life. I hope you will find my observations entertaining as well as informative. Perhaps they will inspire you to reflect on your own journey with sex, how your views about it have changed, and what sex means to you.
Wendy Maltz
You are invited to listen to a fun talk that Wendy Maltz gave a few months ago to a large group of professional women in Eugene. Here she shares key concepts about ensuring healthy sexuality, overcoming common sexual problems, and welcoming life-affirming sexual passion and pleasure.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN to the presentation “What I Learned in Thirty Years as a Sex Therapist”.
In a May 20, 2009 NEWSWEEK web exclusive “Rx vs. XXX” journalist Tony Dokoupil examines the pros and cons of using a testosterone supplement to treat problems with low testosterone in men. At issue are whether “Low-T” is a real and significant problem, and whether the potential negative side-effects of medication such as sweating, unseemly hair, an unexplained penis disorder, and breast growth would discourage this type of treatment. Dokoupil also explores a suggestion that regularly watching porn could be used as better alternative for increasing the level of testosterone. He quotesWendy Maltz, coauthor of The Porn Trap, in sharing that using pornography is not a good idea because it carries serious psychological, physical, and relationship risks, as well.
CLICK HERE to read Tony’s article.
Writing in the Fall 2008 issue of the Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education Family Medicine and Psychiatry Professor Amy Ellwood LCSW of the University of Nevada recommends The Porn Trap as a groundbreaking self-help guide for individuals with pornography concerns and an excellent resource for students in the medicine and sexuality fields.
