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What does it mean to have a ‘sexual voice’? It means being in touch with your desire, knowing what you want sexually, and being able to communicate your sexual...

Johanna Rief, Head of Sexual Empowerment at Womanizer, looks at how lockdown has changed our attitude to sex and relationships.

Most relationships start with a physical attraction. This may have changed a bit with online dating becoming the most common way to meet. However, for most, a ‘spark’...

Depression is a serious mental health condition that the World Health Organisation tells us affects over 264 million people worldwide, impacting people of all ages, races and...

Social isolation in the current COVID-19 pandemic presents sexual anorexics with particular challenges. On one level the increased solitary living may feed an avoidant desire to...

How important is sex in a relationship? This is the conundrum often questioned by both parties in a committed relationship. There is no right or wrong way of having sex. In...

Have you ever received that stimulating text? The one that gets your heart racing? The one that gets you all caught up in your feelings? Yes. I am here to talk about the taboo...

Is sex enough to create intimacy in committed, long-term relationships? Sex in a long-term relationship is considered important for most people, although many couples are happy...

Vaginismus is a diagnosis usually given to heterosexual women whose vaginas go into an involuntary spasm causing the vagina to close so tightly that intercourse becomes impossible...

In this piece I am specifically writing about men and the sexual changes that occur with age. This includes organic and non-organic factors alongside treatment options. There is a...