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Mention sex toys and our minds instantly flick to a hand reaching furtively for the bedroom drawer on a lonely night in alone. But sex toys are a lot more couple-friendly than they've ever been, and one of the quickest ways to introduce novelty in your sex life is to invite a nice, new, shiny plaything into it. This is one threesome I heartily approve of: you, your partner and a sex toy. (Or Read more...

Murray Katz, 82, has made a transition that lies ahead for millions of Americans. "When I was growing up, I didn't see women who were in their 60s and 70s as women", he said recently. "Now, it's amazing. The men I know are all looking at 80-year-old women. They're our friends. We listen to them. We dance with them. We have sex with them when we can. It's beyond Read more...

Sexual satisfaction involves more than sex hormones -- what happens in the brain may be more important, U.S. researchers found. Howard P. Greenwald of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Ruth McCorkle of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., said surgical intervention for cervical cancer often involves removing the ovaries, which reduces or eliminates circulating Read more...

QUESTION: I've been married for 18 years and my husband and I haven't had sex in over a year. He refuses to talk about it, except to say that I'm going through menopause and that we have a small child. He never openly discusses his feelings. I've been seeing a counselor (he refuses to go) but am becoming increasingly worried the marriage may end. How can I get him to open up and talk about this Read more...

They're not too tired and they've got the time. That's just one of the things that surprised us when we researched and wrote our new book, He's Just Not Up for It Anymore: Why Men Stop Having Sex and What You Can Do About It. In spite of the fact that studies reveal there are 40 million people in "sexless" marriages in the United States, (loosely defined as marriages in which spouses Read more...

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QUESTION: You've written that according to your research, the number one reason men give for not having sex with their wives is: "She's not sexually adventurous enough." What do they men mean by that? And don't women have legitimate complaints of that nature too? ANSWER: The real question is not what "sexually adventurous" means, but what it represents. For most couples, the Read more...