Sex and the Enneagram

A Guide to the Passionate Relationships for the 9 Personality Types

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AuthorAnn Gadd
ISBN9781620558836
PublisherFindhorn Press a division of Inner Traditions International
Year Of Publication2020

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About Sex and the Enneagram

Understanding your approach to dating, relationships, and sex through the lens of your Enneagram personality type

• Explains the relationship and sexual differences in the 9 Enneagram personality types for both genders

• Examines how we can create greater intimacy with our partners and what blocks our sexual enjoyment

• Looks at each type’s fantasies and investigates how our behavior in relationships alters according to how emotionally integrated or disintegrated we are

• Explores the three types of love and their countertypes; each type’s Enneagram Passions and Virtues in relation to intimacy; how to engage with each type; and whether some types make better lovers

Sex can take us from the sacred sublime to the darkest aspects of humanity. It can carry us on the wings of pure pleasure, or crush and potentially destroy us. No act in the human experience, barring the essential survival needs of food and water, can have more of an effect on us.

In Sex and the Enneagram, Ann Gadd explores relationships and sex through the lens of the Enneagram, its nine personality types, and the subtypes of the wings and Instinctual Triads. The author introduces the Enneagram system and provides a full chapter devoted to each type. She examines each type’s approach to sex, their fantasies, and levels of integration in relation to love and sex, as well as each type’s approach to issues such as pornography, sexual problems, and dating sites and whether some types make better lovers. The author explains the Enneagram Passions and Virtues of each type in relation to sex, divorce, wing influences, and gender and explains how the 27 Sub or Instinctual types and the Hornevian Triads of the Enneagram system affect our sexuality. Most importantly, Gadd looks at how we can heal ourselves sexually so we can create more fulfilling, transforming intimacy for ourselves and our partners.

Through understanding ourselves and our partners sexually, with the help of the Enneagram, Gadd hopes to bring us to deeper levels of compassion and understanding for each other. Sex then can be an expression enhancing our love for each other, rather than simply a physical act. By understanding your own and your lover’s Enneagram type, intimate giving and receiving can be an empowering process to embody our love for ourselves and others.

Ann Gadd

Ann Gadd

Ann Gadd has been a writer since the day she learnt to scrawl her first words in crayon across her bedroom wall. (An event her parents found to be less auspicious.) Her first published book was released in 1988, with the second appearing in 2003. Since then she has authored a further 33 books (with 16 translations), across a variety of (mostly) non-fiction genres. Subjects include the Enneagrams, travel, place names, relationships, quirky ‘sheep’ books, habits (the emotional reasons behind why we do them), the feet (how the sole mirrors the soul), and the seven stages of self-development in popular fairy tales.
Ann has over the past 35 years written for various magazines, initially sport and self-growth publications, child-orientated articles and currently, mostly travel writing and health issues. (Living & Loving, Country Life, Natural Health, Renaissance magazines.) More recently, she has found a passion for photography and moved to photojournalism.
Ann has had numerous articles written about her work, and as such, has appeared on many talk shows and TV (although her most enjoyable claim to fame, was to be the guest ‘Agony Aunt’ for a UK woman’s magazine)!
She is also a passionate and accomplished artist with sales of over 5 500 paintings, both locally and abroad.
She is a certified iEQ9 Enneagram practitioner and long-term student of the Enneagram.
Her early working days were in the field of advertising, where as an Art Director she moved easily between copywriting and art direction, before finding the courage to forsake a monthly salary to follow her passions of holistic healing, writing and art.
She spent 10 years an alternative therapist, (Reiki, LifeLine counsellor, Footology and general holistic practitioner).
She has also taught a variety of personal growth workshops during the past 30 years including Transformational Art, Enneagram (various), Chakra and relationship workshops, to hundreds of people in the corporate and private sectors.
Ann’s focus has always been to inspire change and personal growth both in her writing and with those she has treated and taught.
Ann has two adult children (since flown the nest), and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her artist husband, a wildly enthusiastic retriever and two somewhat over-indulged, grumpy cats.

Email: ann@anngadd.co.za
Website: www.anngadd.co.za
Tel: + 27 (0)21 5541235 and Cellular + 27 (0)83 4141 007.
Address: 9 Windsor Road, West Beach, 7441, South Africa.
Postal: PO Box 50126, West Beach, 7449, South Africa.

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