Sexual Intimacy In Marriage

Expert, biblical answers to tough questions.

Every couple has those questions they don’t know how or whom to ask! Sexual Intimacy in Marriage discusses the basics, like the definition of marriage, and the not-so-basic topics, such as achieving sexual pleasure and biblically “OK” sexual activity. It addresses real people in the real world–without compromising God’s wonderful purpose and design for his gift of sex.

This highly acclaimed, medically and biblically accurate book extensively covers sex in marriage with a sensitivity and frankness that every couple will appreciate. With over 100,000 copies in print, and now in its fourth edition, this best-selling biblically based book for nearly-weds, newly-weds, and truly-weds is the gold standard for Christian intimacy guides.

Michael Sytsma is passionate about marriage and helping couples grow in their marriage. His giftedness in teaching helps couples learn important truths about marriage in a fun and interesting way.

A Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Professional Counseling Supervisor, Dr. Sytsma is also an ordained minister with The Wesleyan Church. He received his Ph.D. specializing in marital sexual therapy, with an original research dissertation on “Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Married Couples.”

Co-founder of Sexual Wholeness, Inc. he is currently the founder and senior therapist at Building Intimate Marriages. He is a professor at several seminaries including Asbury, Dallas Theological, Denver Seminary, Reformed Theological, and Richmont Graduate. Michael is a contributor to several books including Celebration of Sex (Rosenau), Sanctified Sexuality (Barnes), Counseling Techniques (Thomas), and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage (Curtrer). He co-authored Secrets of Sex & Marriage with Shaunti Feldhahn. He and his wife Karen live in Atlanta GA, have been married since 1985 and have two sons and one daughter-in-law.

Sandra Glahn, ThM, is adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, her alma mater. She is the coauthor of eight books, including the CBA bestseller and Christy Award finalist, Lethal Harvest. Sandra is also editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine Kindred Spirit.

William R. Cutrer, M.D., is an OB/GYN and an ordained minister. He is the Gheens Professor of Christian Ministry and the director of the Gheens Center for Marriage and Family at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He serves as the medical director at A Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center. He is the author of Choice Today: A Pregnancy Resource and Under the Fig Leaves, and coauthor of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage and The Infertility Companion. He has also coauthored the novels Lethal Harvest, Deadly Cure, and False Positive.