The questions never change. Working as a sex therapist, I have more than a passing interest in what the culture happens to be serving up about eros. Part of it is simply curiosity about what my clients are reading. But the greater part involves a search for conceptual tools with which to understand the erotic …
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PGAD or Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder, generally has 5 aspects: “1. involuntary genital and clitoral arousal that persists for an extended period of time (hours, days, months); 2. the physical genital arousal does not go away following one or more orgasms; 3. the genital arousal is unrelated to subjective feelings of sexual desire; 4. the …
Continue ReadingAnother type of birth control — IUD.
Decisions about birth control can be very stressful. Although birth control pills are praised widely on television commercials, magazine and internet ads, not all women react so positively to birth control in their system. Not all women act like the actresses in the commercials. We often see women coming to us complaining about changes in …
Continue ReadingYou go, girl…or…Ma’am…
This video is not for the faint of heart. It’s a safe sex video for seniors and hopefully it will make you smile, like it made me smile. It made me smile because it acknowledges that sex is not only for the 21 year old lithe set. And it made me smile because I think …
Continue ReadingThe pill…what you need to know.
In 1961, the FDA approved the use of female oral contraceptive pills (commonly known as birth control pills). As of this writing, there are over 60 different birth control pills on the market. There are an estimated 12 million women in the United States using birth control pills. The consensus is that most women do …
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