The key to ‘hot’

Seminar at Centennial Friday

WHEN THE emcee at a recent
national convention welcomed
keynote speaker Pat Love to the
podiuny he referred to her popu-
lar seminar series as Hot
Monotony, not Hot Monogamy.

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

The Freudian slip was apropos,
says this Texas-based marriage and
family therapist, because “il you're
not mindful of working on your reli-
tionship. whut is in the beginning hot
monogamy often becomes hot
monotony.”

Through audio cassette tapes, it
popular book (Hor Monogamy,
Penguin Books, $14.50) and appear-
ances on Oprali, Love has spread her
view on love and what couples can do
to keep passion and intimacy in a
relationship.

Love has also been popular on the
seminar circuit. and on Friday, Oct.
27, she will bring Hot Monogamy to
Centennial Theatre. The evening is
co-sponsored by the North Shore
News, Family Services of the North

Shore and Northwest Institute for
Relationship Therapy.

Speaking over the phone from her
home in Austin, Texas, Love dis-
cussed the format for the evening.

While her book und tapes go into
detail about sexual tools and tech-
niques to improve lovemaking, it will
be the audience at Friday's two-and-
a-half hour session that will deter-
mine how down and dirty she gets.

“T want to engage people not
offend them,” she says. What she will
discuss is “the chemistry of love,” the
phenomenon of falling in love froma
biological point of view. Sound bor-

ing? Not acvording to Love, who -

affirms that “your most powerful sex-
ual organ is. your brain” and “the
most efficient (lovemaking) tool is an
understanding of love.”

She contends that when we fall in
love, our bodies release a hormone
called phenylethylamine, or PEA. It

_ is this hormone that gives us a sense
of euphoria and positive outlook.
This romantic “high” can last any-
where from two minutes to four
years, but is only temporary, When
we come “down,” it becomes neces-

“sary to work at our relationship and
explore the paths that will allow us to
transform our love from “romantic”
to “vintage.”

When one or both parties experi-
ences low sexual desire along the

_ way, problems inevitably arise. Love,
who describes herself as a “low-T," or
low-testosterone woman, attempts to

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address this subject in Hat
Monogamy,

“My fibido is so dow it could craw!
under a snake.” she jokes. But in seri-
ousness, "Espent the better part of my
adult life feeling ashamed about my
lack of desire. I really thought some-
thing was wrong.” By understanding
there was a scientific basis to what
she was feeling, that our levels of sex
hormones vary, she says she eventu-
ally “reclaimed™ her sexuality,

Now her recipe for passionate
love is simple: “All you need to be a
fantastic lover is the desire to desire.”

Tickets to Hot) Monogamy are
$16 per person and available in
advance at the theatre box office.
2300 Lonsdale Ave.. North Van, For
more information, phone — the
Northwest Institute for Relationship
Therapy at 926-5905.

Wy PILLOWS

PAT LOVE... marriage coun-
sellor and Oprah regular
brings Hot Monogamy to
Centennial Theatre this Friday.

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