We received an unsolicited response to Dr. Marcus’ position piece on the “medicalization” of female sexuality from a patient. Her words speak for themselves. “The last time I was in the office I told Dr.Marcus that she will be remembered for her contribution to Female Sexuality the way that Margaret Sanger was with birth control. …
Continue ReadingDebate: the “Medicalization” of female sexuality.
I hope you’ll forgive the lengthy perspective below, but this is an issue I am extremely passionate about. If I hear one more time that women’s sexual dysfunction is a myth created by the media, and that the search for medical solutions is merely a thinly veiled way for the pharmaceutical companies to fleece innocent …
Continue ReadingKids at camp = more time for sex!
We had to repost this advice since, well, it’s summer!! Okay so your kids are at camp, you’re alone in the house — have sex! The summer might be an unusually great time for you to reconnect with your partner. Even if you’re not lucky enough to have the house to yourself, for many people …
Continue ReadingSize….again.
Am I starting to sound like a broken record? Again and again, we get women saying “I wish my partner was a little smaller. I guess I’m an anomaly, but I just don’t like having intercourse with a large penis. It hurts.” You’re not an anomaly. It is so rare that anyone complains of a …
Continue ReadingGoin’ down.
At times we may feel that our partners are not adequately stimulating us during sex. This can be true for men and women. It isn’t that our partners are bad lovers or do not know how to perform, but rather that they may not know what really turns us on. There can be many ways …
Continue ReadingOur sexual culture and The New York Times.
The latest public figure to make journalistic hay from the flibanserin controversy is Camille Paglia, whose editorial in The New York Times, ”No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class, “ seems to be getting some play on my twitter feed. It’s a fun read, but she throws a lot of things together that I’m not sure …
Continue ReadingHow much is enough…sex?
The question always comes up: what’s the “right” amount of sex? At nearly every lecture I give, at some point, I get the question: “so how often is normal?” It’s the kind of questions we sex educators hate. Really. The honest truth is that couples vary so widely in their sexual desires and habits that …
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