Why do we lose interest in sex? Professor Cynthia Graham of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton discusses how open communication and emotional closeness are linked to fewer low sexual interest problems. ‘Women living with a partner are more than twice as likely to lack interest in sex compared to […]
Women deserve to have a good sex life into their fifties and sixties and beyond and the menopause is too early to just give up on sex. I do encounter women in my practice who have gone through the menopause and throw caution to the wind in terms of practising safe sex but they are […]
Libido is the background drive to our sexuality. It is complex – dictated by many factors including levels of sex hormones, environment and the brain. So it is not surprising that it can swing wildly, depending on stress levels, how much sleep you are getting and what there is to distract you. Women have a very sensitive on /off […]
“In my 25 years as a sex and relationship therapist, I‘ve really seen it all. When people ask me what my job is like, I reply, “It’s great! I get to be a detective.” One symptom, for example, erectile dysfunction, can have many different causes – part of what I do is to find the […]
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“I don’t know if I can do it.” Jeremy seemed truly frightened. “My GP is a woman, and I can’t talk to her about my loss of sex drive.” As a sex and relationship therapist in private practice, I’d been working with Jeremy (aged 43) and James (41) to explore their lack of sex. “It […]
It isn’t easy to be good at everything. But, as a psychotherapist, I often meet men who try, who try all the time, to be the best. Exhausting. And hardly surprising that, after all this effort, all these achievements, all this success, the one thing that is not going well for them is their sex […]