For other women intercourse is an important part of comfort and closeness, both valuing and being valued. There are also those women with strong feminist views who wish to prove themselves unaffected by childbirth. The sense that the body has been irrevocably changed by the birth of the baby can be particularly strong in those [...]
Mr. A. had been a stud and was proud of it. He had moved down from London and spent some time teaching the locals a few lessons. Now after settling into married life he is running a garage and car hire business and is well known in the local community for giving a helping hand. [...]
An increasing number of women work outside the home and put off childbearing until a suitable time in their career. After many years of contraception they may feel a sense of panic as the biological clock ticks on. Some women in their lates 20s or early 30s may discontinue the Pill, sometimes just to reassure [...]
From time to time any doctor offering a contraceptive service, whether in a clinic or in a general practice, will meet patients transferring from other sources of care. The reason usually given is that of convenience, either of time or place, although some young people will express dissatisfaction with their previous care. The dissatisfaction is [...]
It is not easy to provide care for those who are not well motivated to use contraception, and the way it is done can be a contentious issue. Anxieties may be raised about eugenic control, for instance that one is stopping the poor from breeding, or making value judgements about the behaviour of others and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]