KEEPING your bank account healthy, your paddock feed full and your kilograms produced per hectare at optimum levels are typical topics for a cattlemen’s conference but in Alice Springs today, the advice extended to strategies for keeping your love account full.
The 2016 Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association annual general meeting and conference kicked off in full glamour with a ladies luncheon, attended by close to 100 women representing varying sectors of the beef industry.
Sydney author, academic and researcher Dr Rosie King, who runs a private medical practice as a sex therapist and relationship counsellor, gave an entertaining, and extremely informative, talk.
Sex, she said, was good for you.
“It is a specialised form of touch, and touch is essential to human health,” she said.
But once the early, short-lived phase of a romantic relationship draws to an end, we need to manage our love account to keep it full.
“You do that by learning the language of love that your partner speaks,” she said.
Dr King outlined five languages - talk, touch, quality time together, tasks and tokens - and said being multilingual was the path to a full love account.
Asked about how she became a sex therapist, Dr King agreed it was not the typical thing a young girl would tell her mother she aspired to be.
“However, in my time as a GP problems in the sexual arena were constantly presenting and I simply had to learn about this area,” she said.
“I had plans of being a missionary - basically I went from that to missionary position.”
Thanks to major sponsors Northern Stock Water, Barkly Pastoral Company and AACo, the ladies luncheon was organised as a means to celebrate women in the cattle industry and provide a part of the conference solely for their benefit, NTCA organisers said.
