Dr. Bonnie's Blog

People form clubs for all sorts of things. One thing they can bond over is sexless marriages – for which people have been forming "100 Day Clubs," for people in relationships who have gone 100 days without sex. One couple in Denver decided to turn this idea on its head, and make their own 100 day club – only theirs would revolve around having sex EVERY day for those hundred days.

Hot on the heels of the Elliot Spitzer scandal comes a TV show exploring the inner-workings of the life of a high-end call girl. Seems like the timing couldn't have been orchestrated more coincidentally. Showtime's new show “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” is based on the book which was based on the blog of an English call girl who sells her body to strangers because she loves sex and money.

As ?? reports:

"Call Girl" is a blatant attempt to re-create the frisson and success of "Sex and the City" down to the knowing-girlfriend voice-over. Indeed, as Hannah by day, Belle by night, Piper gives us a sassy cross between Carrie and Samantha. If either of those characters had been British. Or hookers.

The series seems to make the case that you CAN be happy and be a prostitute, yet arguing that this is an enjoyable alternate career choice seems is difficult to do. And the women who claim to have successfully done this are seemingly few and far between.

Sex and money seem to be common themes nowadays, as sex scandals abound, and the money that comes along with it is obscene!

As our culture becomes more engrossed in the pairing of these two subjects, they are also the two topics causing the most problems in marriage. Sex is tied into money and that's all wrapped up in power. The power struggle between men and women, in our relationships and marriages is familiar territory, if only recently glorified by bawdy TV shows.

As I discuss in my book, Financial Infidelity, the balance of money, sex, and power can make or break a relationship, but it doesn't have to. Knowing how to deal with these struggles and understanding the differences between you and your partner when it comes to these things is crucial to a healthy, respectful relationship.

Money and sex are more closely tied than you may have first suspected – and there's scientific research to back that up. A new brain-scan study showed that when young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to take a bigger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary.