ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how to progress from the individual exercises to learning how to gradually build comfort and sexual contact with the partner. Each stage of Sensate Focus, which is a progressive series of structured touching exercises, is described in detail as a guide for clinicians to help their clients build arousal and intimacy. After the couple completes these stages and is ready to move forward, the different steps of partner-assisted genital exposure exercises are provided. The goal of this chapter is to support the clients through safely and gradually achieving progressive levels of physical touch, intimacy, and vaginal penetration until they successfully attempt vaginal penetrative sex.
