Body & Sexuality
How tense you are and how you breathe shape how sex feels. Here you can read about orgasm and arousal, and also about pain during sex. If symptoms persist, a medical check-up is part of it.
Can't orgasmIf you are a woman who can’t orgasm during sex and you put yourself under pressure because of it, take orgasm out of the centre for a while.
Communication during sexCommunication during sex works with words and without them: you can say what you want, or you can show it.
Faking orgasmFaking an orgasm is usually a response to pressure: the orgasm is supposed to happen, and soon.
Female orgasmThe female orgasm during sex depends heavily on how a woman is stimulated – not on whether “everything is going right”.
ForeplayForeplay is already sex, not just what happens before the “real” sex.
Helping your partner orgasmIf you want to help a woman orgasm, what you need most is slowness and asking.
Pain during sex: understanding the causes and looking after yourselfPain during sex is common, and still it is nothing you have to put up with.
Premature ejaculation: what can lie behind itIf you come sooner than you want to during sex, you are not alone.
Sex after birth: closeness, desire and being a couple with a babyWhen sex after birth becomes a topic again varies a great deal from couple to couple.
- Sex therapy for erection problemsYou want sex, and still your erection fades.
- Sex therapy for pain during sexSex hurts, and many people carry on anyway.
- Sex therapy for premature ejaculationYou ejaculate sooner than you would like, and with every time the pressure grows.
- Sexuality after abuseSexual abuse can shape how someone experiences closeness and sex for years afterwards.
Vaginismus: when your body says no to penetrationVaginismus means that the muscles at the vaginal opening contract as soon as something is meant to enter, and you can’t control it.