Sexuality

LOSING your sex drive can feel very depressing and cause lots of problems in any relationship. I’m not talking here about male erection problems or women finding it hard to reach orgasm – I can send you special leaflets if one of those is your problem – but just losing all desire to have sex, even though you have a reasonable relationship and willing partner. I will give you some practical tips... 

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When it comes to sex, 2008 might not have been your year. One of the side-effects of a recession can be a lack of libido, and so maybe one of your New Year’s resolutions is to reclaim your sex life. “In general, people are having less sex,” said Dr. Ian Kerner, a New York City-based sex therapist and author of “Love in the Time of Colic: The New Parent’s Guide to Getting... 

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Dr. Laura Berman says in her new book, Real Sex for Real Women: Intimacy, Pleasure & Sexual Wellbeing: Sex and romance are crucial for long-term intimacy. The stronger the sexual connection, the stronger the emotional intimacy will be. It is important to nurture and feed your relationship both emotionally and sexually. That connection between sex and intimacy is the basis of Dr. Berman’s... 

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IT’S official: Curvy Brits aren’t getting it. A new study shows that only a third of UK women of a size 16 or over have sex in a week, compared with double that for size 8 girls. Even worse, of the 3000 women surveyed, one in ten of those who are obese say they have not had sex for a YEAR – because they hate the thought of their partner seeing them naked. So how do we remedy this... 

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IF YOU happen to have been depressed by the past year, stand by for some good news – we’re all going to be having more sexual intercourse in 2009. The reason is that women’s growing economic power around the world will give them more choices, and one of those choices, apparently, will be to have more sex. The prediction is contained in The Futurist magazine which every year compiles... 

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A ‘sex chip’, which would be implanted into the brain to increase sexual pleasure, is being developed by scientists. The special chip will send tiny shocks to the orbitofrontal cortex – the part of the brain associated with enjoying sex and eating. The technology was originally designed to help people with Parkinson’s but, recently, researchers have shifted their attention to helping... 

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WE’VE all heard how women are meant to prefer bad boys. Lucia reckons they really do exist, but in her opinion they just aren’t up to the job: “There are nice boys out there, but why settle for a boy when you can have a real man?” Goagirl can’t stand the thought of taking a timid guy as a lover: “Oh God, ‘nice’ is such an insipid word! “I like... 

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IF someone sneezes near you it’s not necessarily a sign they have a cold – in fact they could be red hot! Because sexy thoughts can trigger sneezes, an expert has discovered. Dr Mahmood Bhutta, an ear, nose and throat specialist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford admits he was astonished when a middle-aged man came to the clinic complaining that he sneezed every time he was turned... 

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