How to be healthy

Flex Your Sex Muscle While your bulbocavernosus isn’t the kind of muscle you can work in the gym (unless you want to be thrown out), it’s worth training, especially if you suffer from premature ejaculation. “When this muscle contracts, nerves send a signal up your spinal cord to suppress arousal and keep you going longer,” [...]

Ultimately, it was the “stop-start” method that pushed my fiancée, Tara, over the edge. What with so much stopping and so little starting, not to mention all my various instructions—”Slow down, easy, easy, okay, go ahead, stop, I said stop!”—she finally blurted out, “Jesus, are we having sex or parking a car?” As she jumped [...]

Most professionals who treat premature ejaculation define this condition as the occurrence of ejaculation prior to the wishes of both sexual partners. This broad definition thus avoids specifying a precise duration for sexual relations and reaching a climax, which is variable and depends on many factors specific to the individuals engaging in intimate relations. An [...]

Erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis for satisfactory sexual intercourse regardless of the capability of ejaculation. There are various underlying causes, such as diabetes, many of which are medically reversible. The causes of erectile dysfunction may be physiological or [...]

Sexuality can be inscribed in a multidimensional model comprising different aspects of human life: biology, reproduction, culture, entertainment, relationships and love. In the last decades, a growing interest towards sexuality and a greater quest to acknowledge a “right to sexuality” has occurred both in society and individuals. The consequence of this evolution has been a [...]