Orgasm is the experience of pleasure that begs to be repeated. This can be physiological, psychological and/or spiritual pleasure. Alone or partnered, it also helps to pre-heat the oven with desire, arousal and self-mastery of your own erotic responses.

Anthropology demonstrates that human beings have undergone extensive lifestyle transitions, from hunting and gathering to agriculture and farming to agri-business and Wall Street shenanigans. This social evolution has led to the emergence of law and religion.

If you don’t want your kids to get their sex education from school playgrounds, MTV, or hyper-sexualized Hollywood movies, you need to start communicating with them. This week we offer guidelines on when to start and what to include in those difficult yet important conversations.

Couples come together because they have an innate chemistry, or they share interests, or someone gets pregnant, or it was an arranged marriage. The impetus is irrelevant. Staying together and making it work is what matters. So how can we build love, deepen love, and translate that love to the bedroom?.

Since the dawn of the electronic age, online dating was regarded, fairly or not, as being unsexy, unsafe and for the socially awkward. But as more aspects of our everyday life migrate to the online world, the stigma has faded.

If this is how you typically set up a first date, 100 brownie points to you! However, for many people, talking about sex can be an enormously difficult endeavor. And talking about safe sex, like STD and pregnancy prevention, is hardly sexy.

If this is familiar territory, you may not have a hard time deciding whether to stay or go. But what should you do if the relationship is great but the sex sucks? What if the sex is stellar but the emotional intimacy is absent? What if you can communicate emotionally and sexually, but you lack intellectual, spiritual and social stimulation?.

Honor this very natural feeling surging through your system. Then take a deep breath and remember that fantasy, even about someone other than your partner, can be one of the essential ingredients to sustaining a satisfying sex life. Society’s best-kept secret is that most of us fantasize about someone other than our partner — and that’s OK.

As a society we like our two nice, neat boxes: man, woman. We see this division not only in film awards, but also in music video awards, sports competitions, clothing stores and most bathrooms.

Luckily, optimal and extraordinary sex does not conform to the typical Olympic-ordained categories. This is a gender-neutral sport, with an open continuum for sexual behavior and expression. Like figure-skating, we have solo and partner pleasure.