CONTRACEPTION, PLANNING A FAMILY AND INFERTILITY: NATURAL METHODS

By ‘natural’ we mean the absence of pills, potions and devices. Several methods are available. They are all best regarded as inefficient for the woman who is determined not to get pregnant, but they are useful for the couple who is not too worried about having another baby or for those who are really meticulous [...]

SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES

It has become fashionable in recent years to talk about people’s sexual problems as if we were being afflicted by a new epidemic. To some extent we may today be in the throes of a period of more prevalent sexual dysfunctioning but on the other hand, because of the publicity sexual problems now receive, people [...]

LOVE AND SEX: COPULATION

What is copulation? The word is the scientific term used to describe the act of putting the penis in the vagina. As any penis will go into any vagina there is nothing very special about being able to copulate. Any man who can have an erection and any woman who can open her legs can [...]

MARRIAGE: THE TRUTH ABOUT DIVORCE

Divorce rates have been increasing since the end of World War II — as divorce laws have eased. The rate increased by three times in Britain between 1965 and 1975 and by two and a half times in the US over the same period. The troubles that wreck marriages, it has been found, usually start [...]

MARRIAGE: WIFE BATTERING

The main feature of wife battering is that the husband thinks he is unable to control certain issues in the home without resorting to violence. Such a man is usually a poor employee, poor partner, earns little and supports the family very inadequately. All of these are interlinked, of course, and an improvement in any [...]