The Lovers’ Guide takes you through the second stage of pregnancy, the middle months, usually the most enjoyable of all for the mother-to-be. The middle three months of pregnancy can [ … ]
Sexual Health
Pregnancy: The Last Three Months
The baby’s rapid growth during the last three months of pregnancy is vital for a healthy birth. We explain what’s happening – and what you can do. As the mother-to-be [ … ]
Childbirth Techniques
Giving birth can be a straightforward hospital bed affair, or it can involve one of the more controversial methods. We consider your options. Having a baby has never been safer [ … ]
Conception
Sex isn’t just a fun thing to do; it’s also got a purpose, namely, procreation! Many people worry about getting pregnant. Some of the most common issues are tackled here. [ … ]
I’ve Disliked My Vagina Since Childbirth
Childbirth tends to traumatize the vagina. Sometimes the impact is relatively slight, at other times more serious. Advice is given to one woman who seriously dislikes her appearance after childbirth. [ … ]
Pregnant? Sex Positions And Advice
Everything changes during pregnancy. There are new feelings, new emotions and new pleasures. And sex too will be different. We give you what you’ll need to know. Pregnancy can be [ … ]
Syphilis
Cause: A bacteria called treponema. This enters the body through tiny cracks in the skin or by penetrating mucus membranes, such as through oral sex, then lives and multiplies in [ … ]
Overcoming The Fear Of Penetration
Men and women often accept that a woman’s first sexual experience may be painful. If it is, it is nearly always because of this expectation. If you anticipate being hurt [ … ]
HIV and AIDS
HIV is a virus which can cause AIDS. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, so called because it attacks the immune system, the body’s defence against disease and infection. AIDS [ … ]
Chlamydia
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world today, but until recently little was known about this devastating, silent scourge. We explain the causes, the effects – [ … ]
Hepatitis
Hepatitis is a disease of the liver caused by poisons in the blood, such as excessive alcohol, as well as by the viruses Hepatitis A, B, C – and, more [ … ]
Genital Herpes
Genital Herpes is caused by the herpes simplex virus, types 1 (HSV-1) and 2 (HSV-2). Both these strains can cause genital herpes, but HSV-2 is usually responsible. It’s the same [ … ]
Gonorrhoea
Gonorrhoea is a bacterial infection spread through unprotected sex, including oral sex. Initial symptoms, appearing around two to ten days after exposure, include painful urination, a discharge of pus from [ … ]
The Shaping Of Adult Sexuality
The seeds of adult sexuality are sown in the womb and nurtured throughout childhood and adolescence. It is during these early days that the roots of sexual behaviour grow. Our [ … ]
How Children Learn About Sex
A tiny child may seem too young to know about sex, but even at this age their understanding of it is being formed – and parents’ attitudes are crucial to [ … ]
Teen Sexuality: Boys’ Puberty
The sexual life cycle of a male begins a little more than seven months before he is born, when, in response to genetic instructions from a chromosome in his father’s [ … ]
Teen Sexuality: Changes In Girls During Puberty
The fertile years, although important, are only part of the human female’s total sexual life cycle. What begins in the womb seven months before birth continues past the menopause well [ … ]
Birth Order
Chronologically, the order of your family is all-important to your emotional development. How you deal with this accident of fate will affect all your future relationships. Where you come in [ … ]
Child Abuse
Regardless of how much is denied or what assaults are repressed, sexual abuse has repercussions. All kinds of abuse are harmful. Recovery, however, is possible. Sexual abuse suffered as a [ … ]
Evolution & Orgasm | And God Created ‘O’
Why is there such a difference between the ways we achieve male and female orgasm? Why, when a man’s orgasm is pretty much automatic, does a woman’s orgasm often seem [ … ]