Too much light can cause just as many problems as too little light: too much light causes us to screw up our eyes tightly, causing muscle tension and headaches. What else could it be? Quite a number of conditions causing headache can also give eye symptoms. These have all been covered in other areas of [...]

Another myth is that unless a man has sexual intercourse during an encounter, the experience is inadequate and the man a sexual failure. This myth echoes the complaint of women that all men think about is ‘getting it in and having an orgasm’, and that mutual pleasuring is a useful means of achieving that goal, [...]

The myth that men should not have or express emotions, such as tenderness, crying, and touching, or the myth that a man should be ‘performance oriented’ in sex. This myth encourages men to believe that a man’s performance in sex is all important as, through his prowess, he ‘gives’ the woman an orgasm. It encourages [...]

Unfortunately, all too few parents are sufficiently comfortable with their own bodies and sufficiently secure in their own sexuality to be helpful to their young children. Few are able to let their children see them naked, fewer still are able to talk about sexuality and to respond to the child’s curiosity about sex. Because of [...]

Don’t be evasive when a child asks questions about sexuality or sexual behaviour. If you are evasive or, worse, if you punish the child for asking, you will give it the message that sex is something unpleasant. Because children are curious they will find out from their age-mates, who generally have rather inaccurate information. Don’t [...]