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Memory Foam Mattress: Choosing Sleep Over Sex?

Posted on 05/21/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | Personal HealthWhich is more important to you, sleep or sex? That seems to be the choice if you’re considering (or have bought) one of those cushy, squishy, memory foam mattresses that have become wildly popular in the past eight years. A lengthy story in Barron’s finds that while the mattresses are good at supporting the body during sleep, they’re not so supportive of our sex lives. People commenting on Internet message boards complain about “lack of traction.” One mattress owner wrote, ”It’s …

50+ & Having Sex Twice a Week … Not Bad

Posted on 05/16/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsQ: On average, how often does a man my age, 54, in a steady relationship have sex? I usually have it once to twice a week but never more. When I was young there were never any problems but now I feel like I’m really slowing down. — RM Dr. Pepper Schwartz: The good and bad news is that you’re average at once a week for your age; when you’re over 60, having sex twice a week you’re doing better …

Diabetes Has Claimed My Husband’s Erection

Posted on 05/11/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & Family | Personal HealthQ: I’m not sure how to address this situation: My husband is diabetic and has numerous other health issues. He really wants to have sex but can’t achieve or maintain an erection. He’s seeing an endocrinologist to find a doable solution. What options are available for us to be able to rekindle a dead sex life? — CO This is a tough situation because diabetes, as you know, affects erectile ability and the medicines that are necessary to control it …

Internet Porn Is Ruining My Marriage of 59 Years

Posted on 05/9/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsQ: My wife and I met as freshmen in college and have been married 59 years. Family emergencies, health issues, my obesity and low physical arousal response had rendered our sex life almost nonexistent, but I viewed us as committed. However, I grew increasing drawn to Internet porn, usually as a distraction to other responsibilities. When my wife caught me she felt deeply betrayed and views it as infidelity. We live together but have been estranged since November. My only …

Undersexed Because of a Complex?

Posted on 05/2/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & FamilyQ: I’m a 58-year-old widow who has been dating a man for nine months. He’s a wonderful person, affectionate and caring. He’s in extremely good health, has a dynamite body at 60. The problem is I feel we don’t have sex often enough, only twice a month. I know he has high testosterone levels and he never fails to get and keep an erection. When we do have sex it is the best I’ve ever had and he says the …

Sex As a Weapon of Mass Frustration

Posted on 04/27/2012 by | Sex & Relationships | Comments

Home & Family | RelationshipsQ: My wife and I have been married for 36 years. My wife uses sex to punish me if I do something in which she doesn’t approve. Sex has never seemed important in our relationship and she acts like she could gladly live without it. We had sex last on Feb. 20, 2001. Sex has always been very important to me. HELP! — JS Dr. Schwartz: Good Grief! That’s just not fair. You didn’t sign up for a celibate marriage. …