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Posts Tagged ‘sex therapy’
Advice to future sexologists, and other topics
Thanks to sexpert Megan Andelloux from Rhode Island’s Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health for permission to reprint the following interview (slightly modified) from her site www.thecsph.org What do you do in the field of sexuality? I’m a New York City psychiatrist and psychotherapist specializing in sexuality and relationship issues. I also write a [...]
Diary of a Manhattan Sex Therapist — The other side of Saturday night
Want to test your knowledge of male sexual psychology? Take this quiz: QUIZ: It’s Saturday night. Paul, 25 years old, is on a date with a new woman whom he likes very much and finds very sexy. Unfortunately, later that night when they undress together, he suddenly has no erection. She is very understanding [...]
Sexual arousal for its own sake
Simmering: A two minute technique for nourishing the erotic bond between partners. Useful for modern couples for whom the idea of leisure time is a quaint memory, but who’d like to stay in touch. A modern dilemma Recently I had lunch with my colleague Eric Amaranth, and the conversation turned to the subject of polyamory — [...]
Sexuality, simmering, and the B train back from the beach
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 A train in motion On the B train, one hot summer Sunday afternoon. I’m bringing my children and a few of their friends back to Manhattan, after a long day at the beach in Brooklyn. There’s a young couple standing near the exit door, sharing an ipod headset. Each with an earpiece [...]
The end of “Pink Viagra”:What have we learned?
(reprinted from Dr Snyder’s www.PsychologyToday.com/blog/SexualityToday) Another one bites the dust. As many of you know, this month the pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim pulled the plug on flibanserin, the reputed (and as many have remarked, misnamed) “Pink Viagra,” which had been developed as a treatment for something called Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) in women. Many in [...]
Will “Sex at Dawn” influence sex therapy?
Recently, Sexuality Resource reviewed Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha’s Sex at Dawn – a new book drawing on a vast amount of cultural and physical anthropological scholarship to argue that for our hunter-gatherer ancestors, sexual promiscuity may have been an established way of life. And that the development 10,000 years ago of agriculture, an ownership society, and sexual [...]
Sexuality Resource reviews “Sex at Dawn,” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
We moderns tend to think of sexuality as the province of more-or-less monogamous couples, bound together by bonds of love, romantic possessiveness, and jealousy. But according to Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, at the “dawn” of mankind — the vast era dating from 200,000 to 10,000 years ago – things were quite different. In their [...]
ADHD, Marriage, and The N. Y. Times – Part 2 Alvin? Alvin??! ALVIIIN!!!!
The word “Deficit” in “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” is seriously misleading. As any parent of a kid with ADHD will tell you, such children often have an astounding capacity for paying attention to something that happens to be immediately exciting, such as a video game. The problem is that they have trouble paying attention to [...]
Simplicity, complexity, and the hunt for Pink Viagra
Will there ever be a Viagra for women? If so, would the FDA ever approve it? How many women would actually want to try it? This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to consider drug manufacturer Boehringer-Ingelheim’s new drug flibanserin — a medication reported to somewhat improve female sexual desire. [...]
