The slowing of the sexual response with age may be good news. Many men find that it takes them longer to come so their partner can orgasm first, even if it’s a feat they rarely achieved in their younger days. Ruth, now in her sixties, says she experienced her first multiple orgasm in her fifties. [...]
One of the most common sexual difficulties for women is not being able to reach orgasm — all of the time, or some of the time. Perspective is also important here. If you have been led to believe the myth that sexual success means an orgasm with every sexual encounter, then you will believe you [...]
Couples can run into problems if they feel uncomfortable talking about sex with each other. This makes it very hard to let each other know about anxieties and frustrations, and virtually impossible to work out what sorts of changes or alternatives to intercourse might suit you both for a while (like oral sex or manually [...]
Some couples will choose to accept infertility and not have children. For others the need is so strong that they are prepared to do whatever it takes to overcome it, including fertility tests, operations and the prospect of repeated disappointments. For these would-be parents it is absolutely essential to know exactly what they are in [...]
Sexual relationships generally go through predictable phases. There’s the initial exchange of signals of mutual attraction, the thrill of the chase, the ‘getting to know you’ phase of increasing emotional intimacy, the ‘it feels so good when he/she touches me and I think I’d like more’ phase and then the ‘will I or won’t I?’ [...]