The importance of Chlamydia trachomatis in the aetiology of pelvic inflammatory disease and tubal damage with consequent infertility and ectopic pregnancy has been increasingly recognised. Co-infection with chlamydia in patients with gonorrhoea is common and many venereologists recommend that patients receiving treatment for gonorrhoea should also be treated for chlamydia. The incidence of gonorrhoea has [...]

Mutual pleasuring is good sex, but for its full enjoyment it must be done at the direction of each partner. No man can know what a woman should want and feel, or what her sexuality requires. For example, most men believe that women are invariably ‘turned on’ sexually if the man caresses the woman’s breasts, [...]

Such a sequence inevitably leads to a double standard of sexuality. Women are expected to be passive, less sexually aroused, to have less need for sexual release, and to be relatively ignorant about sex. Men are expected to be sexually aggressive, sexually knowledgeable, to have strong sexual urges (which often need to be satisfied by [...]

From the ejaculation centre, messages pass along nerves to the muscles of the man’s inner pelvis which surround his prostate and the deeper parts of the shaft of his penis. Stimulated by the messages passing along the sympathetic nerves, the muscles contract rhythmically. The ejaculatory reflex can occur without the involvement of the brain, as [...]

The larger the size of the man’s penis the better he is as a lover This is untrue. Dr Dickinson showed in his Atlas of Human Sex Anatomy that penises, when unstimulated, have various sizes and usually measure between 7.5 cm (3 in) and 10.5 cm (4 in). But when stimulated to become erect the [...]

What was disturbing were the findings that over 57 per cent of the young people who were sexually active had a sex problem of one sort or another. The main problem was anxiety about sexual performance. This concerned 21 per cent of the men and 13 per cent of the women. Fewer married people (16 [...]