We were sitting with a patient yesterday. We love this patient. She’s funny, warm, smart and quite pretty. She, like so many of our patients, struggles mightily with her feelings of sexual inadequacy. “I don’t think I’m sexy enough.” “I don’t feel like I know enough.” “I’m just not pretty enough.” These are the kinds …
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One of the fun things about working in this field: your friends and relatives all send you clippings, cartoons; links that they think you’ll get a kick out of. This one came from my sister in law, Carol. Sex or Sleep? Article — click here. It turns out that what most of us have already figured …
Continue ReadingVibrators and men? You bet!
An article published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy (“Vibrator Use Among Heterosexual Men Varies by Partnership Status: Results From a Nationally Representative Study in the United States”), states that 44% of heterosexual men have used a vibrator at some point in their lives. In most cases they’ve used it with a partner, …
Continue ReadingCollege orgasms — he said, she said.
I gave a lecture on Female Sexuality and Empowerment to a group of college students the other day. To my surprise, there were more men than women in the group. As the group was smaller in size than expected, we were able to have a more interactive discussion. The group was enthusiastic about learning about …
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Mary Roach, author of Bonk (which you should read if you have the time…I have a review of the book somewhere on this blog!), does a 15 minute review of 10 Things You Should Know About Orgasm. Okay…you might be able to live without all 10 but I found the clip amusing and yes…a tad …
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