Sex Files: Life after birth
This edition of The Sex Files is devoted to new moms. Unless you adopted your child, you got to this point by having sex.
Sex Files: Love goes on holiday
A vacation can work wonders for any relationship, even if you can only get away for a few days. Of course, it can also turn into a stressful nightmare, so plan a little bit ahead. The beauty of traveling to an unfamiliar place is that suddenly there are no house chores to do. You can’t […]
Sex Files: Slippery when dry
A personal lubricant is a godsend for anyone suffering from vaginal dryness—breastfeeding moms, for instance, who often don’t know (and often aren’t told) that as long as they nurse, their estrogen levels will be low, causing them to be as dry as the Sahara. No, it’s not that they no longer like their partner. It’s […]
Sex Files: Love hurts
Sex is not much fun when it hurts. About 15 to 20 percent of women in the United States report having pain during intercourse, and yet this problem often makes women feel alone. Unlike a backache or tennis elbow, it’s not something you can easily share with friends or colleagues. It’s not unusual for a […]
Sex Files: Food for hot
Humans have hunted for magical love potions for thousands of years—to the extent that the black rhinoceros, whose horn bends up like an erect penis, is almost extinct. Tigers are another endangered species, since their penises—believed to possess extraordinary virility—are a hot trade object in some cultures. Aphrodisiacs are named after Aphrodite, Greek goddess of […]
Sex Files: (Making) love is in the air
Spring is in full bloom and new life is erupting in colors and sounds all around us. Let’s think beyond the birds and the bees and about humans instead.
Facts about and symptoms of common STIs
More feature articles: Playing around with sex edOne girl in four has an STI. Something has to change. Grading the presidential candidates on sex edPlanned Parenthood’s Becky Reid on McCain, Clinton and Obama For more information…Organizations and articles on the Web HPV Most people infected with HPV will not have any symptoms. HPV infection is […]
Playing around with sex ed
On March 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the news that one in four girls between the ages of 14 and 19 have at least one sexually transmitted infection (STI). If their study, which is based on a nationally representative sample of over 800 teen girls, speaks for the entire […]
Sex Files: Out of the shadow
Now that I’ve focused on the health benefits of sex in two of my recent columns, it’s time to tackle one of the more difficult subjects: how to overcome past sexual abuse. Let me emphasize that I am talking about past abuse and how it can affect your current sex life. If you are experiencing […]
Sex Files: Here to pay
While details of the Eliot Spitzer scandal were splashed across the news, prostitution was the talk of the nation.