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Oct 2017
47m 10s

Impotent Is No Way to Define a Man

Esther Perel Global Media
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[Contains Mature themes.] A man has struggled with impotence for over two decades. His wife, in despair over her feelings of hopelessness in the bedroom, seeks relief for her sexual frustration and feelings of resentment. 

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