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unhappy middle aged asian couple

My husband and I have been together since 1986, married since 1992. Our sex life was really good. But starting around five years ago, he started saying that at the point of orgasm, his desire…

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senior black couple on a blanket on grass

After 40, medication use becomes quite common. Three drugs are notorious for causing sex problems: alcohol, antidepressants, and blood pressure medications (antihypertensives). But they are just the tip of the iceberg of drug-induced sexual side…

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I’m a 59 and completely devastated to realize that sexual pleasure, one of my greatest joys, had been ripped away because of the prostatectomy I had last November for cancer. I’m so grief-stricken that I…

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senior couple in bed

I am 77. I married my wife when she became pregnant, and have been married for 52 years. She has always been reluctant to engage in sex, except for one period in the 1980s when…

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Couple drinking on the bed in bedroom

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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New Healing Herbs

These days, I write primarily about sexuality. But from the 1970s until 2005, sex writing was just one element of my career as a health journalist. I also wrote a great deal about alternative therapies,…