As You Like It

The latest on sex.

by Paul Joannides

A Tipped Uterus and Intercourse Positions

While it's normal to have a tipped uterus, a lot of women don't know they have one. Read More

The Truth About Chastity Belts

Fact or fiction? Locking in on the truth of chastity belts. Read More

David Beckham's at the Super Bowl in His Underwear, But Something's Missing

One of the hottest male-body ads in Super Bowl history breaks a few of the traditional male underwear ad rules. Read More

Responses from an Unusual Sex Survey Pt. 3

A refreshing look at the range of "normal" in a time of abstinence-only and porn. Read More

Male Genital Length Study Falls Short

Research on prenatal testosterone exposure will someday yield important findings about human sexuality. But it will never be the kind of simplistic dribble that makes for good headlines. Read More

Responses from an Unusual Sex Survey Part 2

Compare the sex survey responses of five articulate women--side by side. Read More

Do men REALLY think about sex more than women?

Young men don't think about sex nearly as often as urban myth has it, and the differences between men and women aren't very large. Read More

Great News about the IUD!

49% of pregnancies are unplanned, with women between the ages of 18 and 20 being particularly vulnerable. IUDs can help make this a problem of the past. Read More

Sex Survey Results from an Unusual Sex Survey

Most sex surveys are designed to be easy to score and compare. But any sense of the individual is lost. I've gone to the other end of the spectrum. Read More

Propecia: More Hair, Less Sex?

Male vanity arrived at a difficult crossroads today thanks to a damning study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine about the hair-growth medication Propecia. Read More

Sex Lubes without Chemicals

At the heart of the problem is how the FDA considers sex lubes to be cosmetics. Read More

SEX TERMS: Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD)

PGAD is difficult to treat and has only recently been recognized. Read More

A New Perspective on Sex Education

Today's sex education is no more about the sexuality that teens are dealing with than creationism is about biology. Read More

People Magazine’s Unfortunate Cover

With a cover the tabloids would love, People throws adoption under the bus. Read More

The Book I've Been Hoping to Find for Parents of Teenage Girls

Ms. Resh's book for parents of teenage girls offers us more effective ways to deal with our daughters' sexuality. Read More

5 Things To Learn about Lovemaking from Porn

The most effective way to offer sex education is on the Internet, where the flavor of the day is YouTube. The problem this poses for someone of my age is that this is a medium of young people who still appreciate seeing each other light their farts. Read More

How Walmart Intimidates People to Not Buy Plan B

If I had been a normal guy who was trying to buy Plan B for his wife or girlfriend, this authoritative-looking woman in the white coat would have intimidated the heck out of me. Read More

The New Panty-Dropping Pill from Germany

America's media remains clueless, as they keep referring to it as the "pink Viagra." Read More

When Perfect New Breasts Are Not Enough

"Some therapists believe that women with breast cancer feel better about their sexuality because they get firm and perky breasts to replace the saggy old ones." Read More

The Double Standard in Sexting

Our phones might be smarter, but we're still dialing into the age-old double standard when it comes to girls and sex. Read More

Intimidation as the New Tool of Censorship

As a colleague of mine has so aptly put it, "Robert LaFollette (Sr. and Jr.) must be rolling over in their graves." Read More

The Three Biggest Differences In Men's and Women's Daily Experience

A short list of the differences between men's and women's daily experience. Read More

An Open Letter to Maj. Gen. Cucolo

To help you better understand how Plan B works, I will plot the female soldier's pelvis as part of a military grid reference system Read More

Gawker's Douche of the Decade Award

Granted, Mr. Francis is not exactly the Mother Theresa of Spring Break Read More

A VERY Different Kind of Condom Ad

Our attempts to get young straight kids to use condoms to help stop the spread of sexual infections has pretty much failed. Read More

Beyond Porn--Sexual Images That Are Fun

With so much hardcore porn around us, we forget that images of a sexual nature can be interesting and fun. Read More

Erection Drug Makers Receive Stiff Fine for Price Fixing

Pfizer, Lilly and Bayer not playing according to the rules in Switzerland. Read More

Who Can We Trust?

The reach of the pharmaceutical industry into the healtcare system is starting to make Wall Street look like a convent of nuns. Read More

Striking Philly Transit Workers Demand More Viagra

While it may not be the central issue behind the strike, Philiadelphia Transit Workers are demanding more than than their current allotment of 10 Viagra pills per month. Read More

Sex Fantasies in the Time of Porn

I would think by now that we would start to see some of mainstream porn's extreme sex acts being reflected in the private sex fantasies of today's younger adults Read More

Paul Joannides, Psy.D., is a research psychoanalyst, author of Guide To Getting It On, and a speaker on college campuses. His website is at http://www.GuideToGettingItOn.com.

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