What if sexual energy isn't something you have to keep stirring up, but something that is always already flowing within you?

In De vierde seksuele revolutie ("The Fourth Sexual Revolution", Dutch-language edition), psychiatrist, body-oriented psychotherapist and sexologist Maarten Ghysels describes a different way of experiencing sexuality: not driven by stimulation and performance, but by what you feel within. According to Ghysels, both men and women have the capacity to experience a lively, pleasurable pelvis all day long, independent of any external stimulus.

If you make love from that inner fulfilment rather than from a sense of lack, the author says, your whole love life changes. Kissing and touching feel more intense, orgasms become deeper and your energy is preserved afterwards.

To this end, Ghysels brings together insights from Western sexology, body-oriented psychotherapy, prenatal psychology, tantra, Taoism and sexual alchemy. He shows how, together, these can contribute to healing the sexual and love wounds that many people unknowingly carry with them.

What's in this book?

• Ghysels' own path from sexual entanglement to liberation
• The second, third and fourth sexual revolutions clearly explained
• A workbook of body-oriented sexology to get started with yourself
• Foreword by Melianthe Nicolai

Who is it for?

• For those who want to apply mindfulness or tantra in their love life
• For couples who want to make love more slowly and consciously
• For anyone who wants to experience sexuality from the body rather than from the head

Product specifications

Author: Maarten Ghysels
Publisher: Obelisk Boeken
Edition: Hardcover (deluxe edition)
Number of pages: 136
Language: Dutch
ISBN: 9789464612400
Published: September 2026
Format: 21.8 x 15.7 x 2 cm

Over de schrijver: Maarten Ghysels

Maarten Ghysels (1951) is een Vlaamse psychiater, relatietherapeut en seksuoloog. Hij werd klassiek opgeleid in Maastricht en ontwikkelde zich daarna tot lichaamsgericht psychotherapeut. Ruim veertig jaar had hij een praktijk in Kaatsheuvel, waar hij mensen begeleidde om vanuit hun eigen binnenwereld te leren leven.

Ghysels was docent aan de Educatieve Academie Antwerpen en hoofd van de afdeling seksuologie bij de Stichting Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg in Tilburg. Kenmerkend voor zijn werk is dat hij klassieke westerse inzichten verbindt met holistische benaderingen zoals tantra en taoïsme.

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