The postnatal examination, usually at six weeks, is considered by the most practical as a sort of MOT test (the obligatory government safety check on the mechanical workings of one’s car), to ensure that all parts are working properly again. Others may consider it as the secular equivalent of the Churching of Women – the [...]
Mr Â., now in his early 40s, used to have a wild time in the evenings after his rock concerts. Now he is a vigorous homemaker/house parent and his wife is the main wage earner. ‘I did not really like the nymphomaniacs, and after a bit I got to saying no.’ ‘Why?’ ‘It seemed that [...]
The doctor who can tolerate a certain amount of aggressive behaviour, recognizing it as a defence against pain and uncertainty, has much to offer the young patient, who is able to test out new ideas with an adult who is not the parent. Such a role may be more difficult for the family doctor, who [...]
Conflict is not the only emotion that gets projected into those who are trying to help. The apathy and fatalism that such families generate can also overtake the professional worker. It may then be decided that nothing can be done, apart from dream about some kind of Utopian solution and, like the family itself, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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