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Men’s sexual satisfaction relies on having a lover

For someone to have a sex drive there must be a trigger that generates an urge to engage in intercourse. Men experience regular erections that cause sexual tension and significant frustration. They may be able to relieve that tension...

Reproduction involves more than just intercourse

Human reproduction

Sexuality is about reproduction. Human reproduction involves much more than intercourse. A baby grows inside a woman’s body until it is mature enough to...

How we know that the vagina is not a sex organ

Human reproduction

Orgasm is a primitive and fundamental response because male orgasm (as the trigger for ejaculation) is essential for human reproduction. The male response involves...

Young men tend to focus on enjoying their arousal

Anatomy & development

At puberty a boy’s mind naturally focuses on his penis and its responsiveness. Some young men can become erect many times through the day....

At puberty girls develop a child-bearing capacity

Anatomy & development

To be willing to care for children, women need certain personal characteristics. Foremost they need to be less driven than men are about following...

Factors that are believed to affect male responsiveness

Responsiveness

Factors that affect men’s orgasm frequencies include their age, the age at which they reached adolescence, as well as their level of education and...

Sexual scenarios tend to be biased in men’s favour

Bravado is a way of covering up embarrassment. Adults use euphemisms to imply a fashionable sexual sophistication while avoiding the need to be explicit....

Penetration is what makes sex erotic and taboo

Sex education should present the different moral and social issues that are raised by different behaviours in as unbiased a way as possible. Sex...

Sexual insults, bullying & habitual harassment

Children should understand the importance of standing up for themselves. They should be given guidelines for dealing with negative behaviours, such as online and...

Non-sexual Intimacy

Women drive the need for dating and romance

Non-sexual intimacy

Without sex, there may be friendship between adults but there is little physical and emotional intimacy. Heterosexual women are dependent on men to provide...

Men’s sex drive can cause them to be insensitive

Non-sexual intimacy

Men’s sex drive motivates them to take the sexual initiative. Men are foremost attracted to body parts but they also like lover who is...

Men’s sexual satisfaction relies on having a lover

Vaginal intercourse

For someone to have a sex drive there must be a trigger that generates an urge to engage in intercourse. Men experience regular erections...

Orgasm is an instinctive response to erotic stimuli

We do not orgasm because we are given information. The motivation to enjoy orgasm arises in our own mind. Erotic stimuli (that cause physical...

The ability to see a partner as a sex object

Unlike emotional attachments, arousal is not caused by a specific person or by a relationship. Arousal relies on being able to see a person,...

Masturbation

How we know that female orgasm is uncommon

Masturbation

We can be confident that orgasm is primarily a male phenomenon in humans because female orgasm has always been a mystery. Even in the...

The kind of stimulation that leads to orgasm

Masturbation

An adult experiences orgasm (once aroused) by stimulating erectile sex organ (the phallus). The penis and the clitoris are anatomically equivalent. The sex organs...

An arousal trigger is either an object or a concept

The sexual mind

Each generation of men thinks that women of their generation are more sexual than any previous generation of women. This is because young men...

Only men are aroused by the prospect of sex

The sexual mind

Humans can remember past events and form associations. So if we enjoy a meal, we remember the experience from the previous time. Even before...

Sex as a bargaining chip in loving relationships

Committed relationships

Relationships of any kind are an inevitable compromise. No two individuals, even of the same sex, have exactly the same priorities at exactly the...

The role of relationship therapists & counsellors

Committed relationships

Adults are embarrassed about sex because of their emotional insecurities. Our emotional needs include a need to impress, a need to belong and a...

A man wants a partner to make love to his penis

Sexual pleasuring

Children of both sexes are indifferent to genitals. They may be mildly curious but they consider genitals to be ugly and smelly parts of...

Sexual techniques that may pleasure a woman

Sexual pleasuring

Young women can often find intercourse painful. As she ages, a woman’s mind may respond to the more subconscious turn-ons associated with sexual activity...

Women have varying degrees of sexual willingness

The sex industry

Single men have to chat up every woman they go to bed with. For some men, the excitement of the chase and the novelty...

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