All the usual healthy habits are good for your sex drive—even if your low libido is caused by a condition such as diabetes or hypertension. Remember, sexual health and general good health are profoundly interconnected.

1. Get plenty of exercise

If you want to be "hot-blooded," then improve your circulation. Physical fitness can increase blood flow, which in theory can make sex more pleasurable since sexual arousal for both men and women involves increased blood flow to the genital area. And that can increase desire itself—if it feels great, you tend to want to do it more.

Exercise boosts endorphins, which lift your … Read More

Let's say you and your signifcant other are having major sex problems. Perhaps he can't maintain an erection, finishes too quickly, or you never finish because he doesn't know what in God's name he's doing. You've got some kinks to work out. Big kinks. The Myth of the Male Orgasm

Could you ever imagine hiring a "sexual healer" to sharpen his skills? And when we say "sexual healer" we mean a woman who sleeps with him and offers him pointers. Think of it as hands-on consulting. Therapists: Virtual Worlds ‘Could Replace Real Relationships’

Mare Simone boasts … Read More

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia report that another closer look should be given to three drugs that are used to treat male impotence to see if small modifications could be made to render the treatments effective in women who experience sexual dysfunction.

Researchers studied the effects of three Type-5 inhibitors, Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, and found that the drugs relaxed the artery in both male and female rats. This finding suggests that small alterations could make the drugs viable for women as a way of treating sexual dysfunction.

Hope for a little pink-pill counterpart to men's blue pills … Read More

From celebrity relationships (Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry) to prime-time television (Lipstick Jungle, The Old Adventures of New Christine and ABC's soon-to-air Cougar Town) it's clear that the older-woman-dating-down double standard is starting to disappear. The term "cougar" even surfaced in a T-Mobile commercial. In the following five reasons, you'll learn from women loving the lifestyle why you should embark on your own May-December (or just September) romance. But do yourself a favor and stick to guys over 21 unless you want to be buying all of the … Read More

Most couples agree that sex on vacation beats their time between the sheets at home. But, as Newsweek reports this week, partners generally define "better" in different ways.

For men, it's about quantity. For women, it's about quality. This seems logical. Vacation, provided couples aren't sharing hotel rooms with kids, offers a happy medium: there's more sex and it's more satisfying.

Without physical reminders of responsibility (like computers, piles of mail, etc.) and daily obligations (getting up with the kids or for work), couples feel more relaxed and -- according to Kinsey Institute research -- nothing has a … Read More

When it comes to relationships, what does the future hold? Will we meet via online matchmaker? Set the sheets on fire with cell phones-turned-sex toys? Or sip piña coladas served by cute robotic cabana boys? Regina Lynn, our Nostradamus of romance, peers into the next five years. Prediction 1: Video kills the coffee date. I don’t know what Starbucks is going to do, but in 2012, awkward first encounters will no longer take place over vente mochachinos. For those searching for a mate online, “First dates will be on live … Read More

Esther Perel looks like the New York couples therapist from Central Casting. Married for a zillion years, mother of two, trim as an arrow—if you have to talk to a stranger about your sex life, she’ll do just fine.

And she's got pop credentials: Her recent book, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & The Domestic, got warm reviews. But woe be to couples who bring her their problems without reading her first. They ask: If novelty is the key to hot sex, doesn't Read More