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The sexual body techniques of early and medieval China – underlying emic theories and basic methods of a non-reproductive sexual scenario for non-same-sex partners
Published in Vivienne Lo, Michael Stanley-Baker, Dolly Yang, Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, 2022
Foreplay, or the ‘playful ways’ (xi dao 戲道), sees the partners breathing upon each other’s bodies, embracing, snuggling, touching and arousing each other in a leisurely way. The man learns the five proofs of her fivefold desire, which are rising bodily flows and a heated face, hardened nipples and a sweating nose, descent of bodily saps and wet thighs, a dry throat and swallowing saliva. Only after all the proofs are seen, he is allowed to mount. A rich vocabulary is used to describe the caressing of her erogenous zones from the wrist, over neck, to ‘mount constancy’ (chang shan 常山), massaging her by breath, touch and body weight (*He yinyang, slips 102–11; see Harper 1987; Li and McMahon 1992; Middendorf 2007).
Male methods
Published in Suzanne Everett, Handbook of Contraception and Sexual Health, 2020
Using condoms can encourage a woman to touch her partner’s penis; she can use a condom as part of a safe form of foreplay by applying it herself or together with her partner. This can give couples the opportunity to talk about their sexual needs and desires.
Problems with Female Orgasm
Published in Philipa A Brough, Margaret Denman, Introduction to Psychosexual Medicine, 2019
Orgasms can occur from an early age with recognition of pleasurable feelings when the genital area is stimulated, for instance while riding a horse or bicycle. Later in adolescence there is the desire for self-exploration of the genitalia with experimentation of rubbing and different levels of pressure over the clitoris to provide pleasure. Masturbation may become a normal behaviour. The stimulus to orgasm differs between individuals and so in order to have satisfying foreplay and sex, communication is essential between the couple. A number of relationship and psychological factors can however contribute to a difficulty in reaching orgasm. The media and pornography often portray an unrealistic view on what men and women should perceive as ‘normal’. The patient and her partner may have very differing, unexpressed views on this. Women may feel under pressure to achieve a purely ‘vaginal’ orgasm without clitoral stimulation or to reach orgasm successfully to avoid her partner feeling a ‘failure’. Anorgasmia is the medical term for regular difficulty reaching orgasm after ample sexual stimulation, causing personal distress. Primary anorgasmia where the woman has never experienced an orgasm is not uncommon. Secondary anorgasmia occurs in an individual who has previously been orgasmic but now has significant difficulties and an inability to orgasm. Patients can present with primary and secondary anorgasmia when the actual problem is that there is no libido and sex is unwanted or not enjoyable. Although it is useful to differentiate, this is less important than exploring and interpreting the patient's feelings.
“I Said Maybe We Should Use a Condom, and Then that Just Went South”: Exploring Condomless Sex among Formerly Incarcerated Black Men in New York City, USA
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2022
Tawandra L. Rowell-Cunsolo, Rahma, S. Mkuu, Meghan Bellerose, Rahwa Haile, Wendee Wechsberg
Prevention efforts targeted to formerly incarcerated Black men, including information on STI and HIV transmission modes, discussion about the different types and sizes of condoms available, and access to PrEP information and services may be beneficial. The themes identified in our study can be used to develop risk reduction and/or safer sex programs for this population. Behavioral interventions should address interpersonal skills and include demonstrations of proper condom usage techniques to reduce user error and enhance sexual communication skills and condom negotiation strategies. They should also include strategies for improving pleasure with condoms, such as incorporating condom use into sexual foreplay. Combining these approaches emphasizing the importance of consistent, correct, and pleasurable condom use with access to PrEP may reduce the risk of infectious disease transmission among this vulnerable population.
Variable Sexual Satisfaction in Pregnancy: A Latent Profile Analysis of Pregnant Wives and Their Husbands
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2022
David B. Allsop, Chelom E. Leavitt, Jeremy B. Yorgason, Erin K. Holmes
Specifically, professionals could encourage couples to be conscious of how the pregnant partner is aroused, experiences desire, and reaches orgasm. Importantly, these professionals should counsel couples that these sexual patterns may differ from what they were pre-pregnancy and invite couples to discuss these differences. Couples could be counseled that penetrative sex more often may not be the solution because it may not provide the needed arousal to achieve orgasm satisfaction (see Lorenz et al., 2019), especially if penetrative sex is uncomfortable in later trimesters due to the growing size of the child (Jawed-Wessel & Sevick, 2017). Couples could be encouraged to explore sexual behaviors outside of penetrative sex such as more time spent on foreplay, oral sex, touching, massaging, differing positions, or greater emotional connection to help couples connect and satisfy sexual desire. Among other characteristics, couples could also be encouraged to develop greater sexual mindfulness (Leavitt, Lefkowitz et al., 2019), sexual communal strength (Muise et al., 2013), and differentiation (Schnarch & Regas, 2012); however, we note that this recommendation is speculative as these constructs were not included in the current study.
“What Do You Mean by Sex?” A Qualitative Analysis of Traditional versus Evolved Meanings of Sexual Activity among Older Women and Men
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2021
Additionally, some female participants reported discovering that “foreplay” was an important aspect of sex not only for them but for their male partners as well: “A man needs some preparation too, not just a woman. The more we tune our foreplay, the better. I think that this is the most important issue in sex. To fit, to figure out together what works for both of us” (F,70). This recognition has substantially improved their sex life, as it encouraged them to include various forms of physical intimacy in their sexual encounters and to make them a central part of their sex life. The belief that foreplay was only gratifying for women had caused them distress in the past, but after noticing the benefits of physical intimacy for their male partners, they opened up to new experiences.