Fetishism in the sexual sense is best defined as the phenomenon of sexual arousal resulting from perceiving some inanimate object, sound, taste, or smell. It is a positive sexual response not to the living object, but to some symbol of that object. In brief, fetishism is a displacement phenomenon. Mankind is much given to reacting [...]
Testing for PID requires a pelvic examination. Evidence of infection may include a yellowish discharge from the cervix, and the cervix may be red and bleed easily when it is swabbed—abnormal signs that indicate cervicitis. With a cervical infection, secretions collected on a swab inserted into the opening of the cervix (the os) will be [...]
Generally people who have one type of herpes infection in one area of the body are unlikely to acquire a different strain of herpes infection in the same area of the body. For example, if a person who has oral type 1 herpes performs oral sex on a person who has genital type 2 herpes, [...]
incidence: very common cause: yeast symptoms: itching, skin redness; discharge in women treatment: antifungal creams or pills WHAT IS IT? Yeast infections of the genital area are caused by fungus; both men and women can have these infections. Yeast infections are not sexually transmitted, because they are not spread from one sexual partner to another, [...]
People with chronic sexually transmitted infections, such as herpes and genital warts, face additional challenges in talking with partners. Not only do they need to think about all the issues discussed in this chapter, they also need to decide how and when to talk with new partners about these conditions. If you are in this [...]
Burning with urination and experiencing pain, itching, or irritation inside the penis are not normal. When these symptoms are experienced, they may be constant or they may come and go. They may be subtle or severe, and there may or may not be discharge. Men may incorrectly attribute these symptoms to being dehydrated, to consuming [...]
Although most couples in Britain now use some form of birth control, the full range of contraception methods available, with their respective advantages, drawbacks and percentage failure, are still not widely known. Indeed the percentage failure may come as a nasty surprise, depending on whether one looks at the theoretical failure rate or the real [...]
The Oxford English Dictionary defines incest as “the crime of sexual intercourse or cohabitation between persons related within the degrees within which marriage is prohibited by law”. In fact the law is inconsistent on the question and differs from country to country. It does not always forbid marriage between cousins, though many religions do. On [...]
For lack of any more precise term this means anything that can be used as a substitute for a natural sex organ, or anything that can enhance pleasure before, during or after orgasm. Aids have been used since the most ancient times; the ancient Greeks had the olisbos, an artificial penis -equivalent to the modern [...]
Certainly it is an exalting experience to reach orgasm together, at the same moment. It is something all couples should strive for. It requires a degree of self-control on the man’s part that is hard to achieve, to hold back his own orgasm until his partner’s orgasm is imminent. To a lesser extent, the woman [...]