CONTENTS

Introduction

Section One: Do These Thoughts Make Me Look Fat?

1. Why Dieting and Exercise Won’t Help Your Body Image

2. How You Ended Up Holding Sex for Ransom

3. The Surprising Solution to Self-Consciousness

4. What Scientific Studies Reveal about the Bodies Men Prefer

Section Two: Preparing for the Sex Life You Deserve

5. Cultivating Sensuality In and Out of the Bedroom

6. Tune In So You Can Turn On

7. Novel Ways of Raising Your Libido

Section Three: How to Unplug Your Thoughts and Resurrect Your Love Life

8. How to Take Your Mind Off Your Body During Sex

9. Using Sexual Competence to Build Body Confidence

10. Tabasco Talk vs. Negative Talk

11. Sexually Fantasizing Your Way Out of Appearance Anxiety

12. Playing with Power

Section Four: Keeping Yourself Safe for Sex

13. What to Do When a Friend, a Date, or Your Partner Criticizes Your Looks

14. What Your Partner Can Do to Help

15. Maintaining a Sexy Future

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author