Self-Touch: Surviving the Covid 19 pandemic as a single person
Many people have written about the feelings of loneliness that can creep up on us when we social beings are not able to connect to friends, family and coworkers during our work from home/ social distancing experiment. Besides the feelings of loss in not inhabiting the same space with others on a regular basis, many of us are missing the benefits of physical touch. None so much as single people who live alone.
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The Importance of asking patients if they have sexual concerns and why health care providers get tongue-tied
As a sexologist I often see patients who have visited two levels of providers before getting to me for help with sexual concerns. Often they have seen a physician or nurse practitioner, and then a marriage or relationship therapist. Sometimes, they have not been asked, nor do they bring up their sexual concerns.
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Why Does Sensate Focus Touching Help With Sexual Problems?
Why Does Sensate Focus Touching Help With Sexual Problems?
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Sexual Desire and Arousal: Why You Cannot Make Them Happen
Sexual desire and arousal are both physiological and emotional, just like enjoyment and relaxation (and all those not-so-pleasant experiences like anxiety and anger). This means that they are located in the reptile and mammal brains that we do not control directly. Whereas most of the success we experience in life is the result of intentional hard work, sexual “success” is the opposite because the parts of the brain that fire up sexual response do not respond to direct hard work.
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Masters & Johnson’s Research 50 Years Later
Fifty years after the publication of Master’s & Johnson’s years long laboratory research detailing EXACTLY what happens in the human body during sex, we gathered at the Annual meeting of The American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists in Las Vegas in 2017 to honor them.
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