[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…
“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,…
Disabilities never preclude great sex. With the will, there’s always a way. In the 1978 Academy-award-winning film Coming Home, a paraplegic Vietnam veteran (John Voight) is a bitter, depressed wreck—until a chance reunion with an…
A key reason older women pursue relationships with younger men— better sex. Relationships involving older women (cougars) and significantly younger men (cubs) went mainstream in 2009 with the premiere of the TV show “Cougar Town.”…
Diana Wiley, Ph.D., is a Seattle-based sex therapist I’ve known for decades. She also hosts the long-running podcast/radio show “Love, Lust and Laughter,” where she and her guests explore all aspects of sexual relationships. Wiley…
Anal sex recipients should start solo, use lube, and carefully coach inserters If you feel revolted by anal sex, don’t do it. No one should ever feel pressured to be sexual in ways they’d rather…
BDSM players are as sexually and emotionally healthy as the general population. Italian researchers recently surveyed the sexuality of 266 Italian men and women who enjoy bondage, discipline, and sado-masochism (BDSM). The study population ranged…
Contrary to popular belief, sex before athletics doesn’t hurt performance. Athletic folklore abounds with tales of coaches forbidding sex the night before big games. The prohibition is largely based on the belief that sex is…
Child sex education resources are seriously flawed. How to correct them. It’s not easy for parents to discuss sex with their children. When my wife and I had kids, I’d been a sex educator for…
Combining sex and alcohol produces some benefits—and many possible risks. The most succinct summary of alcohol’s impact on sex was penned 400 years ago by William Shakespeare in Macbeth: “It provokes the desire, but takes…
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