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New Parents: Bonding with Your Child

Parent-child bonding is a special intimacy that develops between you and your child is tremendously important to your child's development. For most children this relationship is their first and will affect all their future ones. If ... Read more... »

No Orgasms During Intercourse

I am a 26-year-old female who masturbates regularly. I have great orgasms quite easily by simply rubbing my clitoris. When I am having intercourse, however, I almost never have an orgasm. Could this be because ... Read more... »

Should I Tell My Husband I Masturbate?

Whether or not to tell your husband about your masturbation is really up to you. I applaud you for being in touch with your own sexual pleasure and attending to yourself as needed. Many people ... Read more... »

Do Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Help Control Masturbation?

In the early part of this century, John Harvey Kellogg gained a reputation both as a nutritionist and a sexual advisor. The foods that JHK created (including the now-famous corn flakes) were designed to promote ... Read more... »

Can Masturbation Help Me Learn to Orgasm?

I am an 18-year-old college student who is sexually active, and has just become interested in masturbating. I feel that if I am going to be having sex, I should become more familiar with ... Read more... »

How Much Masturbation is Too Much?

Oh, the classic masturbation question -- how much is too much? Do people who are in a relationship masturbate? Oops, Delilah's getting carried away here and asking the questions instead of answering them... More to the ... Read more... »

Is It Normal to be Embarrassed About Masturbation?

My fiancé won't masturbate in front of me. I've told him that I enjoy watching him masturbate, but he says that he gets embarrassed. Is there any way that I can get him to ... Read more... »

Is It Normal to Masturbate When You’re Married?

There is absolutely no reason to feel guilty for masturbating even though you are married. Most men and women do indeed continue to masturbate when they are in a relationship, and it does not mean ... Read more... »

Does Masturbation Cause Blindness?

The myths that masturbation leads to blindness, or causes you to grow hair on the palms of your hands, or will cause someone to be impotent later in life, or leads to mental illness, have ... Read more... »

Are You Too Tense?

Too tense? You may be experiencing a chronic level of physical and emotional tension. Those who take time to relax and release inner tension do much better physically and emotionally than those who fail to ... Read more... »

Are You an Underachiever?

Underachievement is another stress indicator associated with physical problems and emotional discomfort. People who have issues with underachievement have the perception that they are not being very productive with their lives and, as a result, ... Read more... »

Coping with a Negative Mood

People under chronic stress often try to cope by feeling down, hopeless, or sad. It is a way of communicating to the world that "I'm not doing so well" or a subtle plea for help. Negative ... Read more... »

Dealing with Disappointment

People who are disappointed are at greater risk of physical or emotional difficulties, or both. Such individuals appear to have a greater frequency of headaches, gastrointestinal difficulties, moist palms, and over-perspiration than those scoring low ... Read more... »

Always In a Rush? Maybe It’s Time Urgency

Excessive time-urgency is a classic component of Type-A behavior. People who are overly time-oriented have a greater risk of cardiovascular and other health problems than more patient individuals. Excessive time-urgency is not conducive to effective ... Read more... »

Are You a Perfectionist?

Perfectionism can best be described as the search for the unobtainable or unachievable. Individuals caught up in perfectionistic thinking or behavior commonly experience significant personal distress as well as chronic health and emotional problems. Such ... Read more... »

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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