Archive for March 27th, 2009

CONTRACEPTION, PLANNING A FAMILY AND INFERTILITY: THE DIAPHRAGM AND THE SPONGE

Friday, March 27th, 2009

This can look awesomely large to some women and is shaped something like a section of a tennis ball. The correct size for the woman has to be selected by her GP or clinic and the woman has to be trained how to use it. A spermicidal substance is applied to both sides prior to [...]

PERPETUAL INTERCOURSE

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Where the partners are in a happy, loving, communicating and understanding relationship, intercourse, m the widest sense of the term, is a continuous activity. After all, intercourse is more than just the penis being placed in the vagina. Loving and sexual talk, affectionate behaviour and erotic contacts such as kissing, breast fondling and brief genital [...]

SEX HORMONES

Friday, March 27th, 2009

From the sixteenth day after fertilisation of an egg a female embryo is detectably female as determined by the presence of Barr bodies (the repressed X chromosomes mentioned earlier). By the seventh week ovaries or testes are beginning to develop, and in the male testosterone, the main male hormone, is produced. Hormones are complex chemical [...]

WHAT TO DO WHEN MARRIAGE GOES WRONG: SEX THERAPISTS

Friday, March 27th, 2009

These are rare creatures in the UK although some of the above groups offer some kind of sex therapy in a limited way. The vast majority of the ‘treatment’ of marital and sexual problems is done by talking and listening and by the partners discussing things they have learned when they go home. All professionals [...]

MARRIAGE: AS A RELATIONSHIP

Friday, March 27th, 2009

It is probably true to say that with a few exceptions any marriage has the potential to be good. How marriage actually works out for any one couple is probably not so much governed by circumstances (which is what most couples believe) but by lessons learned in childhood and applied later. For example, a fear [...]