A few years ago there was an attempt to describe the ‘change of life’ in a man, and the term ‘male menopause’ was invented. It depicted a man’s reaction to the realization that he was getting older. Its symptoms included a totally new wardrobe, a hair transplant, a new sports car (preferably red) and a [...]
Sensate focus exercises can help to relax you and, because they take the focus away from genital contact, they help you to explore other touch-sensitive areas of the body. These are techniques developed by sex therapy pioneers Masters and Johnson, and they are used widely in sex therapy to make people more comfortable with their [...]
The first few weeks are the most confusing. Joan recalls, ‘I went along to my six-week check after my first baby was born. The doctor asked me if we had started having intercourse yet. I didn’t know if I was supposed to say yes or no, so I said “no” to be on the safe [...]
For conception to happen naturally, an egg (ovum) has to be released from the woman’s ovary. It then travels into the Fallopian tube where it meets up with the man’s sperm, which is deposited into the vagina during intercourse. Fertilization takes place if one of the two to three hundred million sperm released is able [...]
In many relationships there comes a time when you might want to stop using condoms. We have already shown that it is not enough to just leave it to chance, or blind faith.
One solution is to agree to protect the primary relationship. One man said, ‘We both had a full checkup for STDs including AIDS [...]