Let go of the myths, negotiate a compromise frequency, and schedule sex dates. One wants sex more often than the other. If you’ve been involved in a relationship for more than a year or so,…

“You’re insatiable!” “You never want to!” Desire difference exasperate couples. Over the years, I’ve asked sex therapists why couples consult them. Desire differences top the list. For the dozen years I’ve published my Q&A website,…

Ever since Pfizer’s erection-boosting drug, Viagra, was approved 1998, the drug companies have been working overtime to develop treatments for women’s sexual issues, notably, low libido. In a few studies, some women reported restored libido…

Ever since Pfizer’s erection-boosting drug, Viagra, was approved 1998, the drug companies have been working overtime to develop treatments for women’s sexual issues, notably, low libido. In a few studies, some women reported restored libido…

[read part 1 here] Sex therapists recommend scheduling sex in advance Recently, researchers at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, found that desire differences are long-term couples’ top source of chronic sexual distress. Part 1 of…

If you’re a woman troubled by little or no erotic desire, a recent study shows that a self-help book by a woman sex therapist provides a significant libido boost. The book is A Tired Woman’s…

A new approach involves brief group therapy that nurtures sex worth wanting Part 1 summarized the many myths about desire differences and the sex-therapy approach to resolving them—using either self-help or professional therapy. The sex-therapy…

What do ginseng, chocolate, oysters, coffee, alcohol, powdered rhinoceros tusk, a ground up Mediterranean beetle, and the bark of a certain West African tree all have in common? They are just a few of the…

Many young men burn with lust. But after 30, male libido becomes more like women’s. Three maxims attest to the pervasive belief that men are constantly horny, always eager to bed almost any woman: •…