Bettina Arndt

Sex Therapist, Author and Social Commentator

March 2, 2009

"The other great Australian drought"

Broadcast on A-PAC Foxtel CH 607. Please refer to Foxtel guide for times. 

It was sex that made Bettina Arndt famous. As one of Australia's first sex therapists and editor of Forum magazine, Bettina spent ten years talking about sex on television and radio. By the 1980s she'd had enough of a good thing. She gave up sex - professionally speaking - and moved onto writing and talking about broader social issues and particularly the changing relationships between men and women.  Bettina worked as a feature writer and columnist for many of our major newspapers and magazines. As a respected social commentator she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from family law to childcare and ageing.


Now she has now returned to her first love and has written an intriguing book about sex. The Sex Diaries is an astonishing expose showing how ordinary couples cope with the tensions of managing their sex supply.  Ninety eight couples spent up to a year keeping his-and-hers diaries recording the intimate details of their negotiations over their sexual encounters. The result is a challenging, thought-provoking analysis of desire, showing how men and women cope with their distinctly different libidos and what couples must do to achieve sexual harmony.