Female body

Women's wet dreams: is that normal?

Q: I'm 33 and I regularly have wet dreams. The nights I have wet dreams I am more aroused the following day. I am happily married, but I seem to orgasm a lot easier in a wet dream than with my husband. Should I be worried? Sharmila, New Delhi

First period: my mother thought I was evil

When I got my first period, it was scary as hell. One morning, as usual I was hurling my clothes out of the bathroom – a childish habit that had stuck. Suddenly, my sister started screaming, asking my mother to take a look at my skirt.

Women who are happy about their vagina get more pleasure?

Women who feel confident and comfortable about their vaginas have more sex and get more head, according to a US study. But vaginal self-confidence isn’t only about pleasure, it could just save your life.

Man on a menstruation mission

A cheap machine to make affordable sanitary pads for Indian women: it’s entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham’s greatest achievement, he says. When Muruganantham learned of the unhygienic way his wife had to deal with her periods, he helped out.

PCOS generation: the trouble with ovaries

A growing number of women in urban India are discovering that their ovaries aren't working properly. They’ve got polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Gynaecologist Dr Kanthi Bansal says 60% of the women patients at her fertility clinic have PCOS.

Dutch researchers help women climax

Amsterdam’s AMC university hospital is testing a unique way of bringing women to orgasm in the lab. The volunteers watch erotic films while a special device stimulates their clitoris. If that doesn't work, they get a quick dose of testosterone.