7 Ways to make your sex long lasting
7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

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7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

Ways to make sex more, you don’t need to lose weight or learn exotic techniques.

KEY POINTS

. Sex isn’t about what bodies do, it’s about how people feel.

. The keys to improving sex are self-acceptance and communication.

. We all have conditions for good sex. What are yours?

 

1. Don’t self-diagnose

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

People usually don’t go to the doctor and announce what disease they have, requesting it be fixed. Rather, they report their symptoms (this hurts, that doesn’t work as it used to), and the doc figures out what the problem is. Your leg could hurt, and the problem might be your spine; the cause of your headaches could be something in your diet.

 

Gentlemen, if you can’t get an erection when you’re drunk, angry, anxious, guilty, or indifferent to your partner, you don’t have E.D.. And women, if you don’t get wet or have an orgasm when you’re drunk, angry, anxious, guilty, or indifferent to your partner, you don’t have female sexual dysfunction.

 

Drug companies love when people self-diagnose because they often then ask their doctor for a particular medicine. A self-diagnosis of “E.D.” (erectile dysfunction) typically leads to demand for Viagra or Cialis.

 

Human genitalia are not like an ATM—ready to function rain or shine, regardless of circumstances. Don’t decide your genitalia are broken just because they don’t jump whenever you want them to.

2. Accept your body

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

When you wake up tomorrow morning, your body won’t be younger or more fit. Your complexion won’t be better, your hair won’t be more luxurious, you won’t lose your surgical scars, and your body parts won’t be more symmetrical or less wrinkled. Hiding your body during sex (lights off, T-shirt on, don’t touch my fat belly or hairy butt) is never a temporary project. It’s a self-shaming way of life. And it prevents sexual pleasure. “You go to war with the army you have, not the one you wish you had,” said Donald Rumsfeld. Well, we go to sex with the body we have—our only options are to accept and enjoy it, or reject and struggle with it.

3. Take your age seriously

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

Chronic Pain is very un-sexy and a fact of life for almost everyone as we age. Talk about it with your partner, and tailor your sexual activities around it. You may need to say goodbye to some of your favorite positions, which is part of the emotional challenge of aging. Is we get older, we take more medications—which may have sexual side effects. Talk with your pharmacist or physician about possible changes in libido, erection, lubrication, body smell, and skin sensitivity before or after taking a new drug.

4. Do only what you want to do

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

 

Most of us won’t let someone pressure us to eat something we don’t want or watch a movie we don’t like. So don’t do anything sexual you don’t want to do. If that turns off your partner, you have a bigger problem than sex. And if it’s a deal-breaker for your partner, let him/her go.

 

When couples can’t agree on how much sex to have, the person who wants more sex generally doesn’t want just their partner’s body, they want their partner’s enthusiasm. If you can’t provide that, don’t be surprised if your partner is still unsatisfied when you say yes more than you want to.

5. Get excited

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

When patients tell me a story about a disappointing sexual experience, I usually ask if they were excited. Often, the answer is “I was erect” or “I was wet.” Both indicate that the body is aroused—which is important—but they don’t indicate if the person is excited, activated, engaged, energized. And without those, people go through the motions of sex without the emotional impact that most want from it. I don’t like the expression foreplay (which implies that it’s merely preparation for something else), but since most people know what it means, I’ll use it here: “foreplay” is for getting excited, both emotionally and physically. To enhance sexual enjoyment, don’t proceed beyond “foreplay” until you’re really eager for more.

6. Lubricate, Lubricate

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

Lubrication has no moral value—using it doesn’t mean anyone has failed to crank out enough “natural” lubrication or failed to excite their partner enough to do so.

 

Many patients tell me they don’t keep a lubricant in their night table because they don’t want the kids to find it and ask what it is. If they ask, just tell them: this is what I/we use to make sex more enjoyable. Yes, that does mean talking with your kids about sex, which every parent needs to do periodically.

7. Emphasize pleasure over orgasm

7 Ways to make your sex long lasting

If you think that orgasm is the best part of sex, you’re missing the best part of sex. For too many people, sex is 15 minutes of boring or mediocre stuff, with three seconds of pleasure (or relief) at the end. No orgasm can possibly be enjoyable enough to redeem sex that is painful, pointless, scary, confusing, or unwanted. To enjoy sex more, focus on the majority of the experience (i.e., before orgasm), and try to configure some of it more the way you like it.

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