“Nobody is ever broken.” That’s how Dr. Claudia Six begins her talk about women’s sexual performance anxiety. She addresses specifically how women (and those that love being with them) can overcome such anxiety, which appears VERY different from the kind that affects men. Arousal slows down for women, rather than speeds up; and many women think there is something broken about them. Dr. Six calls her approach to helping women overcome their anxiety the achievement of “erotic integrity.” When a woman owns her sexual being and desires, when she can give voice to her needs without worrying about her partner’s reactions, she is on the road to “erotic integrity.” As Dr. Six says, making this step is about more than the bedroom — it is about women saying “We are enough. We are not broken.”
