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  • Anatomy of Desire

  • Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion
  • By: Dr. Emily Jamea
  • Narrated by: Dr. Emily Jamea
  • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Anatomy of Desire

By: Dr. Emily Jamea
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Combining over fifteen years of clinical experience with her groundbreaking research into the science of flow, Dr. Emily Jamea's ANATOMY OF DESIRE delivers a fresh perspective on the untapped potential of our sex lives, intimate partner connections, and personal wellbeing.


The experience of effortlessness, total absorption, and loss of space and time are feelings that everyone wants to enjoy while making love. However, regardless of everyone’s desire for better sex, passion and sexual satisfaction tend to diminish in longer-term relationships. This is a problem because studies consistently show that sexual satisfaction is key to relationship satisfaction.

Great sex is something we all deserve.

As a seasoned sex and relationship therapist, Dr. Emily Jamea has developed a unique approach for boosting sexual desire and pleasure. Anatomy of Desire identifies five secrets―sensuality, curiosity, adaptability, vulnerability, and attunement―that help her clients transform sex from sub-par to extraordinary.

Woven through each secret is the science of “flow state.” Drawing from her first-of-its-kind published research, Dr. Emily teaches listeners how to apply the science of flow to get the sex they want despite the challenges of today’s modern world. Clients, workshop participants, and hundreds of thousands of social media followers have already benefited from her approach.

Dr. Emily Jamea’s debut book, Anatomy of Desire: Five Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion makes her novel approach available to everyone.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

©2024 Dr. Emily Jamea (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

“Dr. Emily gives us a new way of thinking about how to cultivate great sex. She breaks down the latest science in a way that is accessible and meaningful as well as authentic and relatable. She teaches us how personal curiosity and insight weave together with vulnerability and intimacy in a way that ignites sexual passion.”
– Keke Palmer, American actress and singer

“Dr. Emily has a thoughtful, clinically assured voice that is sure to appeal to readers far and wide. She makes difficult issues simple and accessible via her central tenet that expressing our authentic sexual selves is not about venturing into the unknown but rather searching within ourselves and tapping into our innate, albeit uncultivated, sexual potential. Everything we need to seize the sexual moment is already within us, waiting to be actualized, and Emily guides us on this journey with care and curiosity.” – Ian Kerner, PhD LMFT, NY Times best-selling author of She Comes First

"We sex therapists have always warned couples against setting too many goals in bed. Anatomy of Desire sets this conventional wisdom on its head, encouraging couples instead to set very high goals, and in a surprising turn actually demonstrates how to achieve them. Dr. Emily is a sex therapist and former classical dancer, with a dancer’s interest in how to balance discipline with spontaneity to achieve flow. She walks you carefully through the emotional steps that underlie all great sex and offers precise instructions for doing the work needed to make it all ultimately appear effortless. Bravo!" – Stephen Snyder, MD, author of the Winner of the Nautilus Gold Book Award for Relationships and Communication Love Worth Making

"If you care about your partner and are looking for ways to restart your sex life, I don’t know of a more outstanding resource than Anatomy of Desire. I highly recommend this book to any couple whose sex life is lacking the passion and excitement it once had. It is well written, easy to relate to, and most important of all–it provides the tools that couples need who still love each other and want to make sex feel awesome again." – Paul Joannides, Psy.D., author of the Guide To Getting It On and host of the “Crush It In Bed Podcast”

“Dr. Emily is a master of sexual communication. She seamlessly weaves together scientific data and clinical expertise in an elegant yet accessible way and provides readers with practical tips and takeaways to level-up their intimate lives.” – Justin Lehmiller, PhD, author of Tell Me What You Want and host of the Sex and Psychology Podcast

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Wonderfully written, very useful

This is an amazing book for anyone looking to better understand their desire. As a sexuality and relationship therapist, I'm looking forward to using the activities with clients and recommending the book for their own reading.

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