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Category "Sexual Education"
What exactly IS sex therapy?
So many of you respond my website! It is gratifying that I am able to reach such a broad audience through a venue I find so enjoyable. Hot Topics gives me the opportunity to answer those questions you bring to … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education
Talking to Youth About Sex: What’s Enough? What’s Too Much?
- Originally published on DrKoop.com North Americans embrace the ideal of providing children with carefree childhoods ripe with opportunities for growth and expression. Fortunate to hold much of the world’s wealth and natural resources, we are commonly able to meet … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education, Social Commentary
Penis Size
Dear Subscribers, The following letter came to me via my website. It reflects such a common issue that I’m sure it will resonate with many of you. Here’s your chance to ‘listen in’ and examine a sexual issue. Feel free … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education
Playing Doctor: Curiosity or Danger?
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Parenting
Remember the song we taught our toddlers in day care: “Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes….eyes and ears and mouth and nose….head and shoulders, knees and toes”? A generation ago we believed it important that our children … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education, Social Commentary
Women’s Unpredictable Orgasms
I find myself explaining to clients the difference in men’s and women’s orgasmic patterns so often that it seems right to devote a Hot Topic to this essential information. It is true that all human bodies respond physiologically almost identically, … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education
Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome
In his ground-breaking research in the fifties, Kinsey found the most common answer to the question, “How do you masturbate?” was “The usual way.” It still holds true today. Though we each develop individual styles of packing our suitcases or … Read More
December 6, 2011
Category Sexual Education
New Birth Control Methods
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Safer sex
I want to dedicate this month’s column to the abundance of new and improved contraceptive choices now available to women. Such was not always the case. Reliable contraception (the Pill) did not arrive until 1960. Before then, women relied on … Read More
December 2, 2011
Category Sexual Education, Sexual Health
Premature Ejaculation (PE) for Women
Some time ago a client came to me for treatment of premature ejaculation. Like most men, he had suffered with this condition his whole life. Married many years, he reported with great sadness that his sexual difficulties had so eroded … Read More
December 2, 2011
Category Sexual Education, Sexual Health
First Visit Reactions
A number of clients have shared with me their reactions to their initial sex therapy visit. I thought it might be instructive to those of you considering therapy to hear what they had to say. A man in his mid … Read More
December 2, 2011
Category Sexual Education, Sexual Health
In an effort to stay current and informed, I attend a number of conferences each year, some better than others. I recently returned from one in Seattle that left me thinking long after the handouts and business cards had been … Read More →