Having a baby is nothing like buying a TV set or a car and a couple’s urge to produce a baby should ideally be controlled until the man and woman know they are secure together; that they can cope with the bad times as well as the good; that they want a baby for the [...]

This is much less concerned with the cause or causes but more with the actual problem itself and what can be done to overcome it. To a psychosexual therapist a sexual problem is simply a symptom of some other underlying difficulty or problem, whilst to the sex therapist it is the main focus of attention. [...]

This is a highly personalised and enjoyable behaviour that takes place between a man and a woman often before penetration occurs. It is an extension of the love-making that ideally goes on throughout their everyday lives, as discussed later. A lot of nonsense has been written about foreplay. The received wisdom perpetuated from sex manual [...]

The scrotum is a bag of skin. The position of the testes in the scrotum is controlled by the cremasteric muscles which contract to pull the testes up towards the body when cold and relax to lower the testes into the scrotum when hot. By adjustment in the height of the testes their temperature is [...]

Affairs are said to be increasingly common, though all the statistics about their prevalence are misleading because affairs tend to be under-reported in surveys. The impression of clinicians working in this field, however, is that women are as likely, or nearly as likely, as men to be, or to have been, in such relationships and [...]