Can you compare our desire for sexual intimacy to, say, our need for food? And, if so, is sexual anorexia the opposite of sex addiction?

Believe it or not, even though "lack of sex" isn't an official cause of death, experts are divided on this issue. The question recently popped up in the New York Times: A reader asked whether willingly "starving yourself" with too little sex is a real disorder (not just something that happens when you're too depressed to leave your house because you've just been dumped, it's snowing and Real Housewives of Dallas is on. Why isn't … Read More

Over at Ask YourTango—where users give and receive relationship advice— a woman asks for help with a partner who is struggling with post-deployment sexual problems. Dr. John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, tackles the issue, suggesting new and nonthreatening ways to reawaken his libido. Why You Don't Have To Fear The Libido Dip

For more on Dr. John Gray and his book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, visit Read More

A recent study out of China theorizes that exposure to BPA—Bisphenol-A, a plastic-making compound—might be one of the reasons why men suffer from erectile dysfunction. BPA is used in many everyday items like laptops, microwave containers, plastic bottles and the epoxy liner inside almost all food and beverage cans. Some reports say that 90 percent of the population have traces of the compound floating through their system, which makes this new study pretty scary, indeed. 8 Tips For Telling Your Partner A Health Secret

The research, conducted by De-Kun Li, a senior scientist at Kaiser Permanente's research arm … Read More

According to Bloomberg, the company Acrux may be on the way to making some big dollars and some couples really happy. The company is testing a testosterone-boosting drug called Axiron that restores hormone levels to normal in 84 percent of test subjects after four months of testing.

As you may know, low man-juice (testosterone, in this case) can lead to memory loss, osteoporosis and erectile malfunctions. Obviously, the major selling point for the drug, which is applied via underarm spray, is as tonic for Erectile Dysfunction. Read: Why Do Older Men Get ED?

I don't know the actual numbers, … 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

There's a special desire that overcomes some people after a thoroughly satisfying roll in the hay, and unfortunately, it's not for ice cream, cigarettes or Jon Stewart.

More likely, it's for Kleenex, a dark corner, and back-to-back screenings of Beaches and the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

That's because a significant share of the population is predisposed to the post-coital blues.

Lest you think: "What's the big deal? Don't we all get a little sad after 2-for-1 happy hour-induced sex with what's-his-name in accounting?"—think again.

The post-coital blues are bigger than mere disappointment and more painful than outright embarrassment. They're a legitimate … Read More

Per the Chicago Sun-Times, there is a link between television viewing habits and teen sex. "Aw crap," is right. Kids who watch the raciest shows were twice as likely to get knocked up, per the Rand Corporation. Expect to hear A LOT about this study and how Friends, Sex And The City, and That 70's Show are tearing about the moral fabric of teens. Friends maybe.

We can't blame Friends for this one; diabetes (pronounced die-ah-bee-tus, Rodney Dangerfield) can cause dysfunction. The problems are likely to happen in men and women but more likely to be untreated for women. … Read More