The stroller is in mothballs, along with the Little League jersey and the Cub Scouts uniform. Just when the kids can brush their own teeth and maybe drive themselves to hockey practice, just when you thought the never-ending physical demands of raising children might slack off. Just when you thought you and your partner might [...]
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Three Sex-Killing Bogeymen
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged intimacy, midlife sex, sexual health, women's health on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Turn-on? Or Creep-out?
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged exploration, sexual intimacy, vibrators on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A male reader wrote to me recently. He’s “turned on” at the thought of his wife using a vibrator and wants to incorporate it into their sex life. The problem is that his wife is “creeped out” at the thought and won’t consider it. This dilemma presents several issues that I think can be instructive to explore. [...]
Study Confirms Older Women Like Sex
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged intimacy, relationships, satisfaction on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hm. We could have told you that. Recently, we reported on the results of an international survey that explored how satisfied older couples are with their relationships and sex lives. Turns out that sex continues to be important to older women, and it’s an important element in overall satisfaction with their relationships—and sometimes it’s even [...]
Self, Meet Body
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged body image, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, recovery, surgery on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
You’ve been through a lot. After surgery or chemo or radiation therapy, you may feel like you inhabit the body of a stranger—it doesn’t look, feel, or behave like the body you once knew so intimately. You may feel as though your body has betrayed you. You may disassociate from your body—it’s there, but you [...]
The Recipe: Revisited, Reconfirmed
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged female sexuality, sex after menopause, sexual health on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
At MiddlesexMD, our approach to sex at midlife didn’t spring to life fully formed. In fact, it’s the result of a lot of thought and discussion about the kind of information women need during and after menopause to stay sexually healthy and functional. We were concerned that a lot of the chatter surrounding sex during [...]
Couples at Midlife
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged intimacy, midlife sex, sexuality on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Until recently, no one has given much thought to the sex life and relationship satisfaction of middle-aged couples in long-term relationships. You know, ordinary people. So no one knows what keeps long-term couples happy together and happy in bed together. Recently, however, the Kinsey Institute conducted an international survey of 1,000 couples from the U.S., [...]
Midlife Baby? Don’t Forget the S-E-X
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged intimacy, maintenance, parenting on December 1, 2011 | Comments Off
You may not be able to leap up from a lotus position in a single bound. (Heck, you may not even be able to get into a lotus position.) You may find your back a little cranky when your two-year-old demands to be carried. Most disappointing of all (to your love life, anyway), you may [...]
Vibrators for Two
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, vibrators on November 25, 2011 | Comments Off
My conversations with patients, blog readers, and visitors to MiddlesexMD tell me that once a person’s gotten past her own discomfort with the idea of a vibrator, there can lurk another obstacle: How to introduce it to intimacy with a partner. I’ve heard from both men and women on this topic: Both have asked how to introduce a [...]
Dr. Krychman’s “Meet Your Vibrator”
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged exploration, genital sensation, vibrators on November 21, 2011 | Comments Off
In the course of our conversation about vibrators, I asked MiddlesexMD medical advisor Dr. Michael Krychman how he recommends that his patients begin to use a vibrator. Here’s what he says: “Get to know your vibrator. Take it out of the package and learn how it works, how to charge it or what kind of [...]
Science under the Romance
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged orgasm, romance, vibrators on November 17, 2011 | Comments Off
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know that I’m a fan of vibrators. From talking to my patients, I’m well aware that not everyone is as comfortable with the idea—and the reality—of them as I am. We’ve been talking with the MiddlesexMD medical advisory board about the adoption of vibrators. Dr. Michael [...]
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