I wish I had a nickel for every patient who thinks that the way they masturbate is “weird.” I’d be rich. My favorite one is the hundreds of women who all think that lying on their stomach and rubbing against their hands, a blanket or a pillow is totally unique to them and no one else …
Continue ReadingEqual orgasms.
After speaking with many, many women and hearing their stories, I have found that some men and women are keeping track of their orgasms and only perform oral sex on a partner when they are guaranteed to get it in return. Or couples don’t perform oral sex on their partner at all because, “it isn’t …
Continue ReadingThe taste of semen…
They say that if a man lives long enough he will ultimately die from prostate cancer. On a similar note, in my world, if a workshop goes on long enough somebody will inevitably ask about semen. Well here it is folks, your comprehensive guide to semen in 500 words or less. First off, semen is …
Continue ReadingTiger Woods and sex…
It was only a matter of time before Tiger ended up in rehab for “sex addiction.” I’ve been predicting this scenario publicly since November. It appears that Tiger is now at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Mississippi, not South Africa as originally reported. I would like to dispel a common myth among …
Continue ReadingSo what’s Polyamory?
So much buzz out there about the new way of creating relationships…not quite monogamous, but open and honest and fluid and…does it work? Here’s some more information about the lifestyle — in Boston no less!
Continue ReadingThe frustration of sex therapy.
I had a patient yesterday who has zero sex drive. Zero. She has never masturbated. She has never fantasized. She has never been turned on as far as she can tell. She is sad and frustrated and it is effecting her marriage. She spent the last two years on sex therapy. The first year was …
Continue ReadingSex Week at UMDNJ — 2010
This past week, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey held its 37th annual human sexuality program for second year medical students. This program offers large group lectures, panelists, workshops and small group debriefings surrounding various issues in sexuality. Future doctors are exposed to a variety of information on sexuality and learn how …
Continue ReadingFantasy, fact and one man’s life.
Fantasies are just that: fantasies. Our society’s discomfort with fantasies or misunderstanding of them is sometime scary. A person can have a fantasy and in many, many cases have no real desire to act on it. Click below to read about a case where the line between fact and fantasy becomes blurred through normative fears …
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