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Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book “How We Love Now.” In this except, she describes how love actually changes and deepens.
While women may not often talk about it, painful sex is a common health problem that can be healed, say Deborah Coady and Nancy Fish in their new guide, “Healing Painful Sex.” In this excerpt, they explore the challenges of finding a good doctor.
After decades of research, vaginal microbicides that prevent HIV infection are on the horizon. To fulfill their medical promise, a Rhode Island researcher says users’ sexual pleasure must be considered.
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Despite common assumptions, youth sex isn’t the only good sex, says Margaret Morganroth Gullette. In this excerpt from her book, “Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America,” she posits that many women find that sex actually improves with age.
Sex after menopause brings more than pleasure. It lowers blood pressure, boosts immunity and reduces pain, according to a mass of evidence that has been piling up in recent years.
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Some advocates at last week’s International AIDS Conference greeted news of the results of an HIV gel coolly, saying more was needed than a “medicalized” response to an epidemic that travels a social pathway of infringed women’s rights.
A Somali woman in Kenya faces an arranged wedding knowing she could infect her husband with HIV-AIDS. She contracted the disease through unsafe anal sex to preserve her virginity.
A growing number of women are taking drugs and supplements meant to jump-start their sex lives. But do these products really work? Or are they little more than sexual snake oil?