Q&A: How Do I Deal with a Girlfriend Who Spends Too Much Time with Her Ex?

QUESTION: I am having trouble dealing with the amount of time my current partner spends with her ex, who wants her back though she says that she is not interested in being with him again. Repeatedly in the past he has thwarted her attempts to date other people through physical aggression toward the guy, or […]

Q&A: Condoms, Erections and My Partner’s Physical Appearance

QUESTION: After reading a recent Kinsey Confidential column about men having erection problems when using condoms during sex, I notice that I have a similar problem, but it's not all the time. I've noticed that when I use a condom during sex with a female that more fits my preference of her physical appearance, my […]

Q&A: Does Lack of Sexual Attraction Mean Someone is Asexual?

QUESTION: I have a friend who is having some issues with her ex-boyfriend, and made a comment to me about how she was wondering if perhaps she was homosexual because she had never really been attracted to very many of her past boyfriends, but realized that she wasn't attracted to girls, either. I'm familiar with […]

Q&A: Is it Normal to Masturbate?

QUESTION: Hi, I’m a somewhat older undergraduate student (late 20s) and I still masturbate. Is that normal? Do men ever stop? I feel guilty about it.
ANSWER: Though not everybody chooses to masturbate, sex researchers have generally found that most men and women have masturbated at least once in their lives. Furthermore, many men and women […]

Q&A: Spinal Pain at Orgasm

QUESTION: I'm a 22 year old guy. Sometimes after masturbation I feel pain in the lower cords of my spinal cord. It's not always but only sometimes. It's usually quite bearable but on rare occasions the pain is quite intense. Sometimes I even experience this pain after passing stools. I feel so much pain around […]