Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence (Paperback)

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer confiscated a red fox from a woman in Colorado Springs on Friday. The woman kept the fox illegally for at least two years. Officers ended up euthanizing the fox because they determined it could not survive if returned back into the wild. Officers discovered her after she made an Instagram page featuring dozens of pictures of the fox dating back to May 4, Photographs and video show the fox in a dog collar, on a leash, eating human snacks, and inside a chain-link fenced cage.

In one of her posts, she said she “rescued” the fox.

In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all – a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic.

Relationships are hard, even when we are not in the midst of a global pandemic. You know, right now we are both working, doing psychotherapy. We are in our own professional worlds and then we come together, at different times throughout the day, and have a lot to share. And those roles, historically, used to be spread out within communal structures. There needs to be, as best as possible, a separation between daytime and evening, week time and weekend, working time and idle time, family time and individual time, moments that are task-oriented and moments where we stop for a bit.

The ritual is what separates the ordinary and the mundane from something that becomes more elevated, more separated, more sacred.