In this section you will find valuable information that Jim discovered about intimacy and creating loving relationships, that he published in various books, videos and recordings, that he was sure would help you improve your quality of life.

In March 1954, when at the pinnacle of his entertainment fame, Jim was struck down with polio. He was placed into an iron lung life support which pressured his body to breathe. His chances of ever getting out were slim, and his life expectancy was short. In many respects, his story parallels that of America's Superman Christopher Reeve - although Jim escaped the lung and went on to lead an incredibly long life.

In surviving polio and escaping the iron lung, Jim had had a profound personal experience about the quality of life. One that caused him to ask whether many of us were living in our own 'iron lungs' because we held 'life suffocating' attitudes - an evangelist was born.

Jim was particularly concerned about increasing distress in marriages; obvious in sky rocketing divorce rates since the 1960's in most western societies. Today, in Australia, about 40% of marriages end in divorce - the increasing Australian divorce rate over the last century is shown in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2010) graph at right.

So Jim put to work the skills he learned as a cadet journalist to investigate this social problem, and like Sheree Hite and The Kinseys before him, to report on what he discovered. He then used the promotion skills he learned when fronting the Australian 1950's square dancing boom to bring this new age information on relationships and our sexuality to public attention - on radio, television and newspapers, and in books, DVDs and recordings.. The result was a treasure of information resources that continue today to help people find new and richer meaning in their relationships, and quality in their lives.

These information resources include the following:

- The Magic of Life
- Are You (Really) Fun To Live With? (FREE Pdf download)
- Talk on Sex - for Parents & Couples (FREE mp3 download)
- Let's Get It All Off - For Goodness Sake! (no longer available)

Jim also produced three informative relationship and sexual information recordings with psychologist Dr. Bob Montgomery - 'Sexuality & Your Quality of Life', 'Female Sexual Expression' and 'Male Sexuality'. Unfortunately, these recording are no longer available for distribution, but click here to listen to a sample. These tapes promoted open and constructive attitudes to sexuality and adult relationships. Through these tapes, Jim and Bob reminded us that "the most important sexual organ in our bodies is between our ears".

In its day, this information was both radical and controversial, although today its quite mainstream. An insight into the attitudes of the days when he got started on this mission is sensed when reading his brief and quite funny article on how he first got involved in issues about relationships and sexuality in the swinging 60s, titled How I Got Interested In Relationships & Sexuality He wrote: "In 1966 I walked into a Wimbledon bookshop and bought my first book on sex. It was a good one entitled "Mainly for Women". I was so embarrassed as I paid my money that I turned it over the wrong way..........read more here.

Jim went on to found the Quality of Life Association (QLA), to help raise awareness on the many important social policy issues that became a part of his mission - from prison reform to sex education, Click HERE for more historical information on QLA.

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