Thanks to the Medical Center for Female Sexuality for inviting me to join in as a guest blogger. I’m excited to be sharing this page with the talented group at the Center for Female Sexuality. By way of introduction — I’m an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and practice …
Continue ReadingWhat’s the deal with Porn?
Here’s a review of studies which suggests that the data show that the more porn is used, the fewer sex crimes are committed. It’s an interesting argument and worth looking at!
Continue ReadingPreach what they’ll practice!
In Wisconsin, the DA warns sexual educators about what to teach. Talking to the youth of today about sexuality is extremely important. Sex sells everything on TV yet we are afraid to have an intelligent, informative conversation about it? In Wisconsin, this debate has hit home threatening to arrest teachers who don’t teach abstinence, or …
Continue ReadingDoes your OB/GYN sell sex toys?
Here’s an article about an OB/GYN who sells sex toy in his office. He believes he’s the first OB/GYN to do so. Maybe he is. Maybe he isn’t. He certainly is not the first PHYSICIAN to sell sex toys. We’ve been carrying them for years — for many of the same reasons he has. Patients are …
Continue ReadingOh what a difference some testosterone makes!
A female patient just told me the following story. She thought her husband of 15 years was having an affair. He hadn’t been acting suspiciously or working late. He just was less demonstrative, less loving and seemed way less interested in sex. They had always enjoyed a fun sex life. He usually initiated sex but …
Continue ReadingDifferent roads.
I am often struck by the varying and disparate ways in which we solve problems. I am fascinated by the variety of routes people take on their way to a solution. I saw a long time patient today whose situation provided such a great example of this concept. She is a 45 year old woman …
Continue ReadingLibido flip-flop.
This entry was written recently by a patient at MCFS following six months of treatment for low desire. Her previous entry, written after her second appointment last October, was posted on April 5th. Last night I kissed my husband’s ear and he did not move. He wasn’t in the mood and I was! For some …
Continue ReadingWhy I’m not as crazy as I thought.
The following is a blog entry written by a patient at MCFS. Later this week we will post another entry by the same patient, reporting on her progress. This was written in October 2009. For about 14 years now I have been told constantly that things are in my head. Stomach cramps — must be stress, acne — must …
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