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24 Ways You or Your Penis-Having Partner Can Increase Penile Sensitivity

by Adrienne Santos-Longhurst For many folks, sexual satisfaction is all about the feels, so if you or your penis-having partner are experiencing decreased sensitivity down there, it could really mess with your ability to get off. There are a few things that can cause a decrease in penile sensation, from the way a person masturbates …

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Drugs that interfere with sexual function

By Naveed Saleh MD, MS Sexual function is multiphasic and involves sexual desire, arousal, and orgasm. Men and women can experience issues at any phase, with presentations including decreased desire, premature/retrograde/absent ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, painful sex, and absence of swelling/lubrication in women. Some commonly prescribed drugs cause disaster in the bedroom. Sexual dysfunction can …

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Why some women ignore sexual discomfort and settle for bad sex

By Kellie Scott Amelia*, 38, recently told her long-term boyfriend she experiences pain during sex. He asked, “Why didn’t you tell me before?” “I did tell him the times it was unbearable … but there were times where the pain wasn’t ‘that bad’ so I endured it,” Amelia says. “His question made me question myself …

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Watching porn has a ‘higher than expected’ impact on men’s sex drive and performance

By Julia Naftulin A new study found that the more a man watches porn, the more likely he is to experience erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction mostly affects older men, but the study authors found that 23% of men under 35 had experienced the condition. They said the correlation between porn consumption and erectile dysfunction was …

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More than half of men over 60 may have problems in the bedroom

By Steven Petrow Ask a roomful of men in their 60s whether they have any kind of sexual dysfunction — such as problems with erections, sex drive and overall satisfaction — and about 60 percent should raise their hand, studies suggest. They probably won’t, since the topic is fraught with stigma, shame and fear of …

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(Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong

A Victorian doctor created the “vibratode,” but it was our great-great- grandmothers who saw its real potential. By Hallie Lieberman There’s a longstanding myth that still seems to hold about where vibrators first came from. It goes something like this: Cut to Victorian England. A mutton-chopped, bow-tie-clad doctor stands in an operating theater, where the …

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‘Sex tech’ aims to rise above negative image

Sex toys are for relaxation. For education. For healing after childbirth. For long-term or long-distance relationships. For women’s emancipation. And also… for pleasure. But manufacturers aiming for respectability tend to save this argument for last. “Sex toys have an extremely negative connotation,” said Jerome Bensimon, president of Satisfyer. “So we’ve rebranded ourselves as a ‘sexual …

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