Why Good Sex Matters – Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More

Nan Wise, a sex therapist and neuroscientist, has shifted her focus to studying anhedonia, the inability to experience satisfactory pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable. With a growing culture of depressed and anxious individuals, Wise’s book, Why Good Sex Matters, reveals the fundamental problem in our understanding of sex and pleasure and how it originated. The book helps us reclaim our innate capacity for joy, fun, exuberance, curiosity, and humor, while showing how reaching our sexual potential leads to smarter, happier, and more productive individuals. A new understanding of sex can lead to a more expansive experience of pleasure in all aspects of our lives.