The importance of pelvic inflammatory disease and its relationship to sexually transmitted infections, particularly gonorrhoea and chlamydia, are more clearly recognised. STDs such as donovanosis, chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum mainly occur in tropical countries. Donovanosis is commonly seen in Papua New Guinea and is a common cause of ulcerative genital lesions in Aborigines in northern [...]

Other women, who have a great desire to be helped to orgasm by cunnilingus, are reluctant to ask their sexual partner to do this, as they feel he will find the taste, or the smell, or the position offensive and indecent. You should tell your partner that you are neither embarrassed nor revolted if she [...]

The myth that, to be normal, a woman must have an orgasm during intercourse has to be destroyed. Although only 40 per cent of women reach orgasm during sexual intercourse, more than 90 per cent can be helped to orgasm by masturbation or by their partner stimulating the clitoral area either with finger or tongue. [...]

There is a difference in the response of men and women during the resolution phase. Men, with few exceptions, need a period of rest before they are able to respond again to sexual stimuli and to reenter the excitement phase. This is called the refractory period. After orgasm, a man’s penis, at first painfully sensitive [...]

Men are sexually aroused more readily and need sex more often than women The response, both mental and physical, to sexual stimulation follows a similar pattern in both men and women. There are variations, of course, and an uninhibited response is rare, for we are conditioned, all of us, by our childhood upbringing, and by [...]

The surveys confirm that most teenagers see nothing morally wrong in pre-marital sexual intercourse, and an increasing proportion of teenage men and, especially, of women are sexually active. This presumes that there has been a reduction in the ‘double standard’ of sexuality and that women increasingly feel that they have equal sexual desires, needs, and [...]