Tag Archives: sexual dysfunction

Sex, Porn and you: what it can do to you and your sex life

| September 16, 2017

It’s sexual health week and this year the theme is porn and sexual health. While there may be a role for porn in a healthy sexual relationship, there is also a significant downside. Fiona Clark reports. They don’t call Wendy Hurn ‘Willie Wendy’ for nothing. She’s spent much of her career as a urology nurse dealing with the effects of porn on men but now she is seeing a growing number of younger women as well. As access to porn on the Internet has increased so too has the flow of people to her clinic in Bristol. For men, the…

From the ‘O shot’ to fillers: When sex becomes a pain there is help at hand

| February 23, 2017

When sex becomes more pain than pleasure, don’t despair – there are treatments available to put the spark back into your love life. Heather Stephen explains. There’s a lot of attention paid to male sexual dysfunction – and that’s not surprising as it can be a marker of more serious medical conditions. But what may surprise is that more women have problems when it comes to sex than men. Some 43% of women say they’ve experienced sexual dysfunction at some stage of their lives compared to 31% of men. Sexual dysfunction includes such things as an inability to climax (anorgasma), pain during or after…