Promoting Healthy Sex and Intimacy
Welcome to HealthySex.com! This site is dedicated to promoting healthy sexuality. The information found here can help you make responsible decisions about sex, heal sex problems, and increase your sexual pleasure and happiness with a partner. We provide useful definitions, guidelines, exercises, and inspirations to increase your understanding of healthy sex, as well as articles on how to heal from the effects of sexual abuse, pornography addiction, and other sex problems. You will also find information about our books, media appearances, and speaking and counseling services.
Wendy Maltz LCSW, DST is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and sex therapist. Her books include The Porn Trap, The Sexual Healing Journey, Private Thoughts, Passionate Hearts, Intimate Kisses, and Incest & Sexuality. Wendy’s highly acclaimed videos are Relearning Touch and Partners in Healing. Wendy and Larry Maltz LCSW, an esteemed therapist with more than 25 years of experience, provide counseling services at Maltz Counseling Associates in Eugene, Oregon.
Relearning Touch Video Excerpts Media Interviews
Wendy's Blog
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Read all Routledge "Porn Studies" Journal Stirs a Protest - Sign Petition!Wendy on "The Emotional Pro" May 9th 9 am PT/12 noon EST
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Things You Can Do on This Site
- Listen to Media Interviews of Wendy on sexual healing and enrichment topics
- Read Wendy’s acclaimed article “Out of the Shadows” (aka. "Is Porn Bad for You?")
- Get to know the CERTS Model for positive, healthy sex
- Learn how healthy sex differs from sexual abuse and sexual addiction
- Read an article by Wendy on
- Test your knowledge with the HealthySex™ Health Risks Checklist
- Increase trust with the HealthySex™ Trust Contract
- Improve your communication with the HealthySex™ Communication Guidelines
- Find out about Wendy’s books, videos/DVDs, and seminars
- Download the online Reference Notes for The Porn Trap
- Read inspiring poems celebrating healthy sexual intimacy
- Download a free poster on "The Hazards of Porn" and more
- Contact us
The Sexual Healing Book Trailer
Wendy Maltz describes the origin and contents of the newly revised classic sexual abuse recovery book.
View it here.
Best-Selling Sexuality Resources
The Sexual Healing Journey
Newly revised and updated (3rd) edition. Over 175,000 copies sold. This classic recovery guide helps survivors to: identify the sexual effects of abuse, create a positive meaning for sex, develop a healthy sexual self-concept, gain control over upsetting automatic...
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The Porn Trap
A groundbreaking, comprehensive and compassionate resource. The Porn Trap is the first book to address the full range of pornography-related problems...
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Private Thoughts
This entertaining and informative book explores the intimate world of women’s sexual fantasies: looking at where fantasies come from, how they function, what they mean, and how to change ones that are troublesome. First released as In the Garden of Desire: The Intimate World of Women’s Sexual Fantasies.
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Intimate Kisses
Wendy turns up the heat in this collection of sexual love poems that explore a full-range of sexual pleasure. These classic and contemporary poems reveal different aspects of sexual enjoyment; from anticipating intimacy, through experience, to ...
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Passionate Hearts
An Amazon.com #1 bestseller. Wendy's first anthology is a unique collection of 117 poems by master poets that inspire and celebrate healthy sexual intimacy. In these poems...
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Relearning Touch
This forty-five minute video, moderated by Wendy Maltz, sensitively demonstrates the relearning touch techniques. Includes interviews with three couples who...
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