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  • Is It Just A Matter Of Consent? Compliance In Sexual Relationships

    A new study on sexual compliance raises the question "is it just a matter of consent?"

  • Q&A: Decreased Libido and Vaginal Lubrication. Anything I Can Do?

    Most women and men will notice changes in their sexual feelings or in the ways their genitals respond over time.

  • QA&: I Want To Have Sex But I’m Uncomfortable With My Body

    Some people feel very accepting of their bodies. Other people have complicated relationships with their bodies, feeling bad about some of their body parts.

  • Q&A: I Have Never Experienced Orgasm. Is Something Wrong With Me?

    Women vary in how they experience orgasm. Some women feel that orgasm is a distinct event. Other women experience orgasms that are more mild.

  • Q&A: I Had Never Experienced Painful Sex Until Recently

    For some women, sex is painful when they first start having it or if they jump into sex without much foreplay or chance for the vagina to become lubricated.

  • Q&A: What Is The Purpose Of Female Ejaculation?

    Some researchers still find the entire topic of female ejaculation to be controversial.

  • Q&A: I Do Not Experience Orgasm When I Ejaculate

    Sex therapists sometimes use the terms ejaculatory anhedonia or anesthetic ejaculation to describe the experience of ejaculation with orgasm among men.

  • Q&A: I Can’t Orgasm When I Masturbate In Front Of My Boyfriend

    Sex is full of a range of sights, sounds and scents. These can greatly enhance people’s sexual arousal but they can also influence people’s worries.

  • Q&A: My Boyfriend Always Has An Erection, Masturbates Constantly

    It may be that your boyfriend has trained himself to come quickly during masturbation, creating a quick ejaculatory response.

  • Q&A: I Only Get Sexually Turned On When I’ve Been Drinking

    If your boyfriend is like most people, he will want you to enjoy the types of touching and sexual intimacy that you’re engaged in.

  • Q&A: Is It Possible To Orgasm By Intense Concentration Alone?

    We don’t fully understand why some people can orgasm from intense concentration and focus without any type of physical touching happening.

  • Do You Need to be Sexually Satisfied to be Relationally Satisfied?

    Sexual and relationship satisfaction: Can you have one without the other?

  • Q&A: Why Do I Get So Wet When I’m Aroused? Can I Control This?

    Vaginal lubrication comes through the vaginal walls, with the fluids having originally been part of the blood that flows to the genitals during sexual arousal.

  • Q&A: I Have Never Experienced Orgasm. What Do You Suggest I Do?

    With time, patience and practice, most women are able to learn to orgasm so the chances that you will, too, are certainly in your favor.

  • Q&A: Why Don’t I Get Turned On When My Husband Rubs My Clitoris?

    How does it feel when your husband touches your breasts or inner thighs? How do you feel when you touch him on different parts of his body?

  • Q&A: Why Does My Girlfriend Feel Bad After We Have Sex?

    People may experience many different emotions in connection with sexual expression and for any number of reasons.

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