About the Desire Curve

Based on the chemistry of New Relationship Euphoria (NREU) and incorporating new findings in the cutting edge science of erotic connection. THE DESIRE CURVE: The Applied Neuroscience of Sex, Love and Intimacy teaches you how to understand and operate your own emotional systems so that you make intentional choices about love and commitment rather than let your chemistry control you. Created by Nan Wise to help her own clients in sex and relationship therapy, THE DESIRE CURVE is an elegant and simple tool that plots the ebb and flow of erotic desire, explains why we all behave in love and lust as we do and takes the blame and shame out of sexual biology. THE DESIRE CURVE debunks cultural myths about sexuality that are upheld as ideals by traditionally trained therapists--and gives both mainstream readers and clinicians a dynamic new way of talking about old problems.

This book will teach readers how to create sustainable erotic engagements--a way of relating that is expansive enough to accommodate the ebb and flow of desire throughout a lifetime.

The Desire Curve begins with:
Desire Set Point, your natural level of desire when you are not in a new relationship
Height of curve:
New Relationship Euphoria (NREU) where you desire a lot of sex with a new love.
Curves back down to:
Desire Set Point
At the bottom of the curve:
Loss of Desire, what happens when people fail to understand the patterns of desire and believe that they are out of love with their partners because they have fallen from the heights of NREU.

Copyright 2007 by Nan Wise