Kinsey Confidential Sexual Health Podcast

My girlfriend and I have been in a lesbian relationship for nine months. She had dated several girls before me and had sex with a few of them. She was my first. There was a lot of sex in the beginning of our relationship, but as it progressed the sex has dwindled to being once every two or three wee...

As a sex educator and columnist, thousands of people have talked to me about their sex lives. And I have heard from many people who have accidentally called out someone's name during sex. In some cases, it was a total accident. They claimed that they weren't thinking of this other person and the nam...

Some couples value monogamy and commit to only have sex with each other. Other couples decide to have some degree of an open relationship, which may allow for one or both of them to have sex with other people...

Although most men and women in the US have tried oral sex, not everyone likes it and not everyone keeps doing it. If you and your husband don't like oral sex, then it probably makes it easier that you both feel the same way. It can be more difficult when one person likes oral sex a lot and the other...

Sometimes couples engage in power struggles without talking about it. People may withhold sex from one another as punishment or perhaps they may give in to sex, but act as if they're not enjoying it as a way of getting back at their partner...

People have different reactions to dealing with masturbating about their ex. Some men and women try to stop thinking about their ex at all costs and may actively try to think of other people while they masturbate, or to focus on others by watching porn or reading erotica, to help them imagine sexual...

Some people fantasize about their partner having sex with another person. Such sexual fantasies may involve threesomes or larger numbers of people involved in group sex or orgies. Other times people fantasize about their partner is cheating on them...

The experience of sexual pleasure can also tap into people's brain chemistry in ways that, as scientists, we don't fully understand yet. For example, I have heard, from several people who describe sadness associated with sex for reasons they don't understand...

People can act out romantic sexual fantasies or very explicit no-feelings-involved sexual fantasies. They can be powerful or submissive, have sex with one person or many, or approach a stranger or even a long lost, high school love for sex, massage, making out or to become pregnant...

Some swinging takes place in club settings in which people may private membership dues to belong to the club. Other times, swinging takes place in the context of private parties that may occur in people's homes or in privately rented space at a club, bar or hotel...