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Aunty, I think about sex all the time. Am I normal?

Making Love
I think about sex all the time. Do I have some kind of disorder? Even if I try, I can’t keep my mind off sex. It’s embarrassing, but it’s the first thing I want to do whenever I meet any girl. Am I a sex addict? What would my friends think if I shared this with them? Do I need some kind of sex therapy? Jayant, Bangalore

Women who are happy about their vagina get more pleasure?

Female body
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

Female body
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.

Men can fake orgasms too!

Orgasms
More than a quarter of men surveyed in two recent studies have faked an orgasm at least once. We assume it’s virtually impossible for men to fake orgasms, but in the survey by University of Kansas, 78 percent said they acted out an orgasm.

Her sexual desire drops, his stays the same

Sex Problems: how to overcome them
Women want sex less and less as a relationship goes on, while men stay as horny as ever. It’s fact, not just cliché. You can work out exactly how much a woman will want sex just by looking at the length of her relationship, say researchers.

She’s avoiding me – now what?

Meeting someone
Q: I am interested in a girl and proposed to her last month. But since then, she’s been avoiding me. We have been really close friends. I really like her and want to have a relationship with her. What should I do? Karthik, Lucknow

Top 10 condom blunders we all made!

STI prevention
All kinds of people all over the world make mistakes with condoms, a new international study found. Researchers compared 50 studies on common condom blunders like using wrong condom size, putting it on inside out, unrolling it first, or not pinching the tip.

'I am not a virgin. Can I expect my partner to be one?'

Virginity
“I am not a virgin. How can I expect my partner to be one? That’s unfair,” my friend said to me. That's progressive, given how obsessed Indians are with virginity. Let's find out more about him in this story.