Everyone wants to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). But how? Conservatives demand limiting school sex education to promotion of abstinence until marriage. Liberals insist on lessons about contraceptives and STI…
The year was 1979, the place Scottsdale, Arizona, and Barbara Jonas was upset because she and her husband, Michael, had a spat shortly before Michael left on a business trip. Feeling lonely, Barbara, then 37,…
While traveling through Europe after college, Barbara Taylor of Ottawa, Ontario, entered France and had to pass through customs. She pulled her passport out of her purse and handed it to the agent. Wedged into…
Could sex raise men’s risk for prostate cancer? That disturbing possibility has been raised by several studies over the past 10 years. Prostate cancer is to men what breast cancer is to women. It currently…
In 1948, urologist Arnold Kegel, M.D., (Kay-gell) was treating women with stress incontinence, urine leakage triggered by coughing, sneezing, or laughing. He reasoned that his patients had weak urinary sphincter muscles, which could not stay…
Brief fantasies hours before lovemaking can help ignite later sexual heat. Even among lovers with major libidos, arousal can be a challenge. Many people want hot sex, but have trouble heating up. Fortunately, sex therapists…
The popularity of unconventional sex raises questions about what’s “deviant.” Here’s a headline that’s impossible to resist: “Huge New Survey Documents How and How Often Americans Have Sex.” Who wouldn’t read that? There’s a bit…
The best, most cost-effective treatment for the large majority of PE sufferers is the sex therapy program developed during the 1960s by pioneering sex researchers William Masters, M.D., and Virginia Johnson, and refined since then…
For erection problems, low-intensity shock-wave therapy looks promising. In some people with kidney stones, low-intensity shockwave therapy (LIST) breaks them up. And in some with heart disease and fractures, LIST coaxes the body to produce…
Viagra is not the only way men can firm up fading erections Mention erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment and most people say Viagra. And no wonder. Since its 1998 approval, Viagra has become one of the…
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