This is more of a comment than a review. Dr. Stein's book takes an approach to sex and lovemaking that is "spiritually based" on mutual partnership love and understanding. I think it should be required reading for any partnership relationship. He makes all love interactions which are mutually consented clean and healthy. His style gives the reader many chances to thoroughly examine their own consciouses and to understand their feelings of "love" outside of the physical acts of sex. Thank you, Dr. Stein.

"Passionate Sex,Discover The Special Power in You" by Dan Stein, MD is absolutely the best holistic medicine for creative sex. My husband Damir and I didn't realize that so much pleasure,happiness and ecstacy were possible, yet alone healthy and life promoting. This book has added a great deal to our lives.It is practical, easy to read, and packed with new ideas and information We both highly recomend it! Sanela and Damir Boltuzic

Passionate Sex is not a sterile, cold how-to technique manual -- but a book written by a physician who believes that maintaining a vital and healthy sexual relationship for the duration of a couple's togetherness needs to focus not just on techniques, but on romance, on sustaining passion and on allowing a couple the freedom to try new things. That may sound easy, but changing old habits and mindsets is NOT easy, and this volume helps make the transition gently pleasurably. It addresses people as adults, not automatons, and the tone is an open and sharing one.

In a day and age in which most couples squeeze in love making after the 11 o'clock news when they are both exhausted, Dr. Stein takes a radical departure and exhorts couples to focus on their sexuality and to MAKE time for quality love making.

If you are looking for a "positions" book, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for ways to keep the passion alive in a committed relationship (or to reignite it) then buy a copy of Passionate Sex.

This book attempts to marry jungian psychology,eastern religion and a bit of Christian mysticism and fails dismally.The plot is totally disjointed, jumping from pre-war Vienna to wartime Europe to India to Israel and back to India with very little connection in the plot. The characters are wooden and it is impossible to feel any empathy for any of them, even when they are being burned to death or being cruelly blinded. When I read bits out to my family they thought it was a spoof and laughed.

If you are not inclined toward books that compel you to think about the spiritual mysteries of life, about the way we choose to make decisions, about our processes for determining what and who will influence us and how, don't bother. But if you want to read a book that is hauntingly lyrical, that compels you to think about your own spiritual and intellectual journeys, that drives you to consider the reasons that propel you to do what you do, then read this book. Marvelous parallel structure which moves unerringly, unflinchingly, inexorably to a conclusion that forces you to confront not only your own mortality, but the legacy you believe you are building, the people you believe you are influencing and effecting--and how and why you proceed through your life's journey.

Reader from usa certainly got this wrong - not even a mention of Vienna or Israel. I guess this is the problem. This is a highly mystical book and will only be understood by those who have that inclination. Others will see it as confusing. I thought this was one of the great works of the last year and have made sure I have told everyone about it. It moved me for weeks after and to give this a bad review is just impossible.