Sex on the Brain: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life

This is not your typical sex book. It is more like an incredibly interesting text book from an incredibly interesting 200 level college class. As Dr. Amen described how different over/under-active parts of the brain effect personality/relationships/sex, I was amazed at how easily I could identify those traits in family members and friends.

I highly recommend this book.

Having successful relationships depends on factors in our control and factors out of our control. This book is interesting and thought provoking as it reveals how brain chemistry, dysfunctional patterns and previous brain injuries can at a minimum influence and at a maximum destroy even the most well intentioned relationship. The author's stated policy of having anyone who wants to date his daughters more than a few months undergo a brain scan shocked me a little at first, but as I learned more about all the "hard wired" issues that aren't visible, it makes a lot of sense. I struggled in a marriage for over 18 yrs with someone who had several damage factors in his history and despite counseling and now court intervention still has abuse patterns that he thinks are perfectly normal. Knowing that these issues on some levels are a permanent factor brings more compassion than anything else, along with the awareness that restricting conflict opportunities is a wise move.
Moving forward in my forties, knowing how positive and healthy a happy and active sex life is for both partners into what most consider too old for sex (70+!) is a pretty great bonus.
If you are looking for "how to" or something simple, probably not...but if you want to know more about what is happening behind the scenes and how to enhance your likelihood of great sex and strong relationships...highly recommended.

This is not a how-to book. This is a book about brain chemistry with a few suggestions on how to take advantage of what we know. Not bad but not what I was expecting.

This is a very interesting book regarding the brain and sex. Lots of fun facts regarding how sex affects our brain chemistry, fertility, longevity, chances of getting cancer, strokes, etc. I enjoyed it immensely.

This book varies between self-promotion and tiresome list reading. It fails to help apply what is known about sex, neuroendocrinology and psychiatry. It almost makes sex a boring topic.

Nah, it succeeds at that.

I suggest She Comes First as a better example of applied clinical science to aid human sexual relationships.

The title of this book could honestly be title "The brain and its structure" The content of the book had very little to do with sex, it was more about diagnosis of mental illness with a brief mention about how treating each particular mental illness would help the sufferers sex life.