Apr 21, 2020 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Satisfaction
Will there be a COVID related Baby Boom? Despite the many jokes I have heard about an impending baby boom nine months from quarantine or “shelter-in-place” mandates, the research doesn’t seem to hold up. In fact, it seems more likely there will be a...
Nov 6, 2019 | Curated information, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Research Review
The October 2019 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine has an article reviewing the efficacy of mindfulness meditation-based interventions for sexual dysfunction. As mindfulness-based therapies (MBT) are increasingly popular in the treating sexual issues, the...
Oct 26, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Dysfunction
Another research study showing the risk to women of oral contraceptives, this one focused on progestin-only versions. Using a sample of 444 sexually active married women between 20-40 years old, researchers split the group into four treatment groups and asked to...
Oct 8, 2019 | Curated information, Sexual Research Review, Sexual Satisfaction
“Using mixed quantitative and qualitative analyses, we found compelling evidence that orgasm experiences can be “bad” during consensual sex.” p 2435 Wait. What? You mean having an orgasm doesn’t prove the sex was good? In my counseling office, it is...
Sep 18, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News, Sexual Research Review
Sexual intercourse during pregnancy is commonly believed to trigger the onset of contractions and, therefore, labor. So starts the introduction to a recent article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. In a meta-analysis involving 3 trials and 1,483 women, researchers...
Sep 9, 2019 | Curated information, Sex in the News
In March of this year (2019), the Journal of Sexual Medicine published research on 3,944 people over 50 who self-reported sexual and sleep variables as part of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing(1)Smith, L., Grabovac, I., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Isik, A. T.,...