Mary Farrar - Reading Your Male: An Invitation to Understand and Influence Your Mans Sexuality

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Mary Farrar combines meticulous research with heart-stopping facts that require her readers to face the truth about male sexuality. Any woman who seeks to better understand the thought patterns of her man will benefit greatly from Reading Your Male, but it should also be required reading for single adults and married couples who desire healthy relationships. This book is an essential reference tool for every Christian leader. I highly recommend it!

Carol Kent, president of Speak Up Speaker Services
and author of A New Kind of Normal

This is a powerfully inspirational and instructional book. We as women dont often recognize just how much male sexuality is under attack in this cultureor how central it is to how they feel about themselves. As you begin to understand and navigate this important and misunderstood subject, your eyes will be opened to the wonderful influence you have in the life of the man you love.

Shaunti Feldhahn, best-selling author of For Women Only:
What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men

Think you know it all when it comes to what men want and why? Then youre in for a shock if youll take time to read this book. Mary Farrar shares insights that will inform you, change your relationship with your husband for the better, and help you train your sons to be the men God calls them to be. Do yourself a favor and gain a huge dose of understanding into how men view life, love, sex, and intimacyand watch how that deeper understanding leads to the kind of positive changes youve been looking for in your marriage.

John Trent, PhD, president of StrongFamilies.com and
author of The Blessing and The 2-degree Difference

Mary Farrar has written a profound book on understanding a mans sexuality. With strong authority and conviction, Mary addresses the chronic onslaught of temptation and destructive cycles, followed with a God-given, life-changing plan that works when undergirded by the strength of teamwork in a marriage. This is a powerful book. We have never read a book like itever. Get a book for yourself and one for every woman you know who has ever had questions about understanding what a man is thinking!

Gary and Barb Rosberg, Americas Family Coaches,
founders of The Great Marriage Experience, speakers,
authors, and national radio-program cohosts

What a profound book for both women and men! Reading Your Male boldly uncovers the truth about our sexually skewed culture and examines a mans inner world. Most important, it uses Gods rich truth to help every woman discover how to love her man the way he needs and longs to be loved.

Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs, authors of I Do Again, founders of
Hope Matters Marriage Ministries, national speakers and biblical counselors

Mary opens an insightful window into male sexuality and helps women understand how God can use them in His work to redeem the sexual hurt and misunderstandings that many couples know all too well.

Steve Watters, director of Family Formation, Focus on the Family

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ISBN 978-1-4347-6871-1
eISBN 978-1-4347-6437-9

2009 Mary Farrar
Published in association with the literary agency of WordServe Literary Group, Ltd.,
10152 S. Knoll Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130

The Team: Don Pape, Larry Libby, Amy Kiechlin, and Jack Campbell
Cover Design: Amy Kiechlin
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First Edition 2009

To Steve,
my friend and partner,
and the reason I have come to treasure manhood

What gain to womankind

When walks a man on earth

Who bears the image of his Maker

As you do.

What grace to children born,

When sheltered neath your god-like wings,

And tempered, yet neer abandoned,

Then, pinioned in their fledgling flights,

Are wooed and lifted upward

Towards Him, their heavenly Father.

What joy to this frail heart

When bound by your true love,

And knitted soul to soul,

Is strangely Godward kindled,

And gently drawn and welded

To Him, my souls first Love.

What grace upon this world,

When guarded oer its tower and bridge,

And by your princely walk

Is marked with every step,

And called to lift its eyes and gaze

On Him, their King of kings.

What gain to this rare man,

What joy to him ten-fold

Who bears the image of his Maker

As you do.

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No signs from heaven come todayto add to what the heart doth say.
Dostoyevsky

Ive seen plenty of interviews on Oprah and Larry King Live. But I was recently privy to an interview that will never make it to network televisioneven though it should.

In fact this interview happened entirely by accident.

It began as a conversation. And like many good conversations in our home, it evolved in my kitchen right after dinner. The guys were gathered around, watching me clean up as usual. But thats fine. Our best conversations have happened in just this way. I was cleaningand listening and talking. The guys were just talking. (ADD people cant do two things at once.)