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Up in the Air

2009

Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire presenting a new business model.

109 min

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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Lori Gottlieb
2014
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Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships

Illustrates how experiences and messages from our parents during childhood create internal defenses that, in turn, support negative views of ourself and others.

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Robert W. Firestone, Lisa A. Firestone, Joyce Catlett
2008
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Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

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Esther Perel
2006
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Intimate Behaviour: A Zoologist’s Classic Study of Human Intimacy

One of the best chronicles of human intimacy—from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace.

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Desmond Morris
2016
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The Intimacy Struggle: Revised and Expanded for All Adults

The struggle for intimacy is a complex issue, key to the happiness of every man and woman. It goes on for all of us as long as we live. To be intimate is to be close, to be vulnerable, qualities that are very different from the survival skills we learned.

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Janet G. Woititz
1993
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Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Mirror of Intimacy contains a year’s worth of daily reflections that explore and support the range of human sexualities as a divine gift and a human right.

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Alexandra Katehakis, Tom Bliss
2014
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The Joy of Intimacy: A Soulful Guide to Love, Sexuality, and Marriage

We all crave intimacy. It’s essential to our emotional and spiritual health, and without it we don’t feel whole. Yet today our culture faces an intimacy crisis. Many of us, even when we’re in a committed relationship, still feel painfully alone.

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Manis Friedman, Ricardo Adler (contributor)
2018
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Legacy of Wisdom: Dr. Herbert Benson—Intimacy and Sexuality

What about the important issues of intimacy and of sexuality in aging? Dr. Herbert Benson, one of the original researchers who showed that we can in fact use our rational faculties to affect body states, is interviewed about the working with the human emotions and needs.

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Herbert Benson
2011
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Transformation through Intimacy: The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy (Revised Edition)

The passage from immature to mature monogamy is not only a journey of ripening intimacy with a partner but also a journey into and through zones of ourselves that may be very difficult to accept and integrate with the rest of our being.

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Robert Augustus Masters
2012
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