ABSTRACT
Therapists must be open enough in heart and mind to receive or make contact with what is being revealed both overtly and covertly. Sex therapy supervisees, out of their own discomfort, will often collect incredibly brief descriptions of both the couple’s feelings and the series of events leading up to and during their sexual play. Like most couples together for any significant amount of time, they had found themselves bored with their go-to sexual script. The male partner yearned for his wife’s touch and missed their long-since-absent sexual relationship tremendously. Talking about bodies, sexuality, and sexual functioning requires that the clinician use specific, explicit language, and often that family therapist prescribe specific, explicit behaviors to be explored at home.
