It probably comes as no surprise that many couples are sexually incompatible, but often, the reason could be so easily remedied if people just understood basic physiology. If you were a fly on the wall in bedrooms throughout the world, you’d be stunned to see how many women fake orgasms, even with men who they’ve [...]
Remember the days when you’d meet a stranger at a social event and one of the first questions you’d usually ask each other is along the lines of “And what do you do?” Who am I kidding? I don’t either. The pandemic has ended any semblance of normalcy for all of us. But stay with [...]
So what if I told you that a woman carrying twins can look down at her belly and know that she is carrying the actual physical cells of half of her future grandchildren? First of all, how is that even possible? And more specifically, if it is possible, why only half? I’ll give you a [...]
When I was four years old, my father was a professor at UCLA on sabbatical, teaching at the University of Toulouse in southern France. So my family lived in a tiny village just outside of Toulouse for a year. Back in 1960, the locals had never met anyone from abroad, so they always referred to [...]
So, the exciting events of the Tokyo Olympics are behind us and can no longer provide the escape we all needed from the bewildering news we hear on a daily basis. And now that the story of the incredible gymnast Simone Biles’ withdrawal from most of the events is not the jaw-dropping news it was [...]
Can a woman get pregnant if she isn’t menstruating? Or another way of putting it is: Can a woman assume she doesn’t need to use birth control if she isn’t having periods? The answer is not as intuitive as you’d think. On the surface, any fairly educated person might think “Of course she can’t get [...]
I recently received yet another inquiry from a woman asking me about one of the scores of fertility apps currently flooding the internet. While I find most of the apps concerning, one in particular worries me the most. The developers claim it is the first FDA-approved birth control app that purports to tell you when [...]
I’m often asked if the Fertility Awareness Method is a good form of birth control for all women, but my answer is usually a surprising “No” — which, as you can imagine, often throws some for a loop. Since I’m clearly a huge advocate of a scientifically validated, natural method of contraception, why wouldn’t I [...]
I received an amazing email from one of my readers in the UK recently that reminded me yet again about the extraordinary benefits of charting menstrual cycles. Several years ago, she had had a couple of miscarriages, with the last one ending in a dilation and curettage (D&C), a procedure in which the woman’s cervix [...]
There’s a cruel irony in the fact that the majority of women have at one time or another probably experienced mild panic when their period was even just a few days late, only to discover years later that they would do anything to actually get pregnant. But both situations are really two sides of the [...]
