Radio interview with author Marnia Robinson

JPR logoListen to excerpts from Marnia's interview on Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Exchange, June 3, 2009. She discusses her new book Cupid's Poisoned Arrow.


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The Lazy Way to Stay in Love

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I’ve always wondered why moving, intimate experiences like the Ecstatic Exchanges can create such powerful shifts for couples…and yet why it is so easy for stagnation to creep back into an intimate relationship. Recently I stumbled upon an insight that furnishes an answer to both questions.

We humans are programmed for both reproductive urges (mating) and for physical and emotional closeness (bonding). The bonding program evolved primarily to bond us to our parents, and our kids. This powerful caregiver-infant connection is so fundamental that it is what separates mammals from reptiles. Reptiles just lay eggs and wander off; baby mammals need strong emotional ties to their caregivers for a time in order to survive.

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A Little Poem

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Have you noticed that poets celebrate young love? How many poems celebrate middle aged parents in love? In the spirit of Karezza, may I offer this one?

Sexual Superabundance

sexy womenI was a once a contented product of the sexual revolution--or so I believed. My family was open and sensible about discussing sex, and barely religious. I concluded that orgasm was pure pleasure and the best possible relationship glue.

Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow Primer


Limbic systemHuman love lives are complex. One of the underlying reasons may be that we have two conflicting genetic programs at work in our limbic system, both of which have subtle, but powerful influences on our intimate relationships.

Why Bonobos Make Bad Role Models

man and bonobo Even though sexual utopians can no longer boast (as loudly) about Bonobo nonviolence, they often maintain that Bonobo promiscuity would be suitable for humans-presumably because we share a lot of genes and even some behaviors.

However, the sexual utopians are forgetting one thing. Bonobos don't have "pair-bonder brains." We do.

The Golden Tree - Awakening the heart with a mate

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The ch'ung mo, or thrusting channel rises from the base of the penis, goes up between the tu mo and jen mo channels and ends in the heart.—from "Taoist Yoga" by Charles Luk

Amsterdam Launches Clinic for Heartbroken

heartbrokenExperts are beginning to measure the physiological hangovers of "love," so the time may be nearing that we can look at the physiological hangover buried in the passion cycle after orgasm.

One Clinic Zeroes In on How Modern Medicine Can Help Heal Heartbreak

Medical specialists from across the globe teamed up in Amsterdam this weekend to launch a first-of-its-kind clinic for the brokenhearted.
(Jack Aarts)

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The Hidden Factor in Relationship Disharmony: Highlights

If you found the "Highlights" interesting, you may wish to watch the full presentation. (43-minutes)

Sex and Depression: In the Brain, if Not the Mind

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Finally, a psychiatrist is acknowledging that intense orgasm can create a hangover for some people, without any apparent psychological issues. Maybe as professionals begin to explore the neurochemistry of extreme cases they will realize that the same neurochemical fluctuations are at work in more subtle ways in the problem of habituation between couples (as well as sex addiction).

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