As a general rule, women over 40 need more stimulation to become aroused enough for good sex. When we were young, just thinking about making love with our partners may have been enough to arouse us physically, but as we grow older, as sex hormones decrease and distractions build, it takes more. But not too [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Seeking Worthy Erotica
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged Erotica, female sexual desire, sexual arousal on March 17, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Vaginal Patency for Single Women
Posted in The Good Stuff on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A lot of the patients in my menopause practice are single women. My patients who have no sexual partners can be quick to dismiss my questions about sexual symptoms, figuring that without a partner in their lives, they have no sexual concerns. I have two worries about that. First, you don’t need a partner to [...]
Finding a Sexually Literate Doctor
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged female sexuality, sexual health, sexually literate doctors on March 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
None of us get through our adult lives without some questions about sexual functioning. And we go lots of places for answers, consulting family, friends, texts, the Internet, piecing together a quilt of inter-generational wisdom and ideas, sifting through marketing hype at the drugstore, trying to self-diagnose our situation and find the fastest-best-cheapest way to make [...]
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