One of our recent botulinum toxin patients just had intercourse with her husband after 9 years of marriage. Pretty cool, no? She had been trying to have intercourse for years with no success. She tried traditional dilator therapy and though she could insert the smallest sizes, she felt pain when she got to the medium …
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An aspect of the female orgasm that I find compelling is why it even exists. Of course it makes sex profoundly more enjoyable. So from an evolutionary standpoint the more a woman wants to have sex the more her chances of procreating increase. However, unlike the male orgasm which is necessary for procreation, the female …
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Oral contraception and the vagina: I have a love/hate relationship with the pill! I love the fact that it allows women to have a sex life without worrying about pregnancy. I love the fact that it makes birth control fairly effortless and painless. I love the fact that it’s so easy to access. I hate …
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Since I started working at the Center I have grown increasingly interested in the female orgasm. Why are women and men obsessed with having an orgasm during intercourse when research has proven that only 33 percent of women can? What determines who can and who can’t? It turns out that genes play a big role …
Continue ReadingReligion and sex.
Some religions think sex is a sin. Many do not. The frustrating thing is that even religions which do not have this view seem to have adopted aspects of this way of thinking. And it’s even more frustrating when people who do not consider themselves religious somehow absorb the idea that sex is sinful. Why? …
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