Platitudes say it hurts. Most studies say it helps. New research clarifies. An old joke asks: What’s the quickest way to destroy sexual satisfaction in a relationship? Get married. The punch line reflects the tendency…
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Many people have difficulty having orgasms, especially during partner sex. Only 25 percent of women are consistently orgasmic during intercourse. An estimated 5 to 10 percent of men have trouble with orgasm. Their lovers often…
It’s quite possible that you’re turned off by the thought of kissing or licking your lover’s anus or having this done to you. If that’s how you feel, don’t do it. But the fact is,…
Remote sex offers distant lovers intimate connection. But does it work for you? Circumstances force many lovers to spend extended time apart—school, family obligations, business travel, military deployment, whatever. For those so inclined, phone sex—including…
Many elements determine the joy—or woe—of sexual initiation What does it mean to lose one’s virginity? For cisgender heterosexuals, it typically involves first vaginal intercourse. LGBT+ folks often have different definitions. But whatever meaning people…
As post-sex cuddling increases so does sexual and relationship satisfaction. Ah, afterglow, the relaxed, dreamy post-coital period when many lovers feel close. But a better term might be after-cuddling. Recent research shows that cuddling is a…
All the press about the sexuality of older men focuses on erection problems, and the drugs now available to treat them. But another equally important issue has received almost no attention—the problems men over 40…
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…
Everyone is sexually unique. This bears repeating. Everyone is sexually unique. From the 1960s through the millennium, sexologists believed that the human sexual response cycle was a fixed, universal, four-phase process. But starting around 2000,…
After the first oral contraceptive was approved in 1960, The Pill quickly became the world’s most popular birth control method. More than 100 million women worldwide have used it, and among American women age 18…
