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Dejunk your sex life
Spice up and de-junk your sex life with sexpert, Dr. Eve.
Article: Annel Lategan from women24
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Find out how to get more sex and more of what you want during sex and explore why so many of us have unfulfilling sex lives. Here are five steps to creating a sexual lifestyle:

  • Step one:
    Go through your cupboards and set to one side all items of clothing that make you feel sexy. Only wear these clothes. There's no such thing as "special, party clothes". To become a sexual woman, every day is a party and a celebration of your body. Clothes adorn us – show off our femininity.

    You have to feel sexy in order to be sexual. So look sexy! If you hit the shops, choose clothing with your eyes closed – feel the fabric first and consider if having this fabric rubbing against your skin will do it for you.

    It really isn't all about having the perfect body, it's about having perfect confidence and clothes help us reflect a kick-ass attitude.

  • Step two:
    Check out your boudoir. Or perhaps you have no boudoir as your bedroom is the family lounge. Time to change this. As you walk into your bedroom, you should catch your breath in anticipation of pleasure – long, languid, sleeps; private masturbation sessions; love making with a loved one, or a fling with a chosen special person.

    See that you have a bowl of flowers, a plant or pictures on your walls that stimulate your sense of vision. Always have nice smells that envelope you as you walk into your sacred space – incense, fragrant flowers, pot pourri or burning aroma oils.

    If music creates "aha" in your heart and body, keep it playing in your boudoir whenever you choose. Have a bowl of fruit, chocolates, candy or body chocolate available for when you want your mouth and tongue to be awakened and reminded of potential tasty delights.

    Soft covers, fur, throws, silk, cushions, cotton linen complete your boudoir.

  • Step three:
    Your toy box probably needs attention. A girl has got to have at least one vibrator and a tube of water based lubricant with a box of condoms.

    I recommend for vibe newbies the Pocket Rocket, which is a clitoral stimulator only. For experienced woman, nothing but the best for you – try the Pearl Diver. This vibe simultaneously stimulates your clitoris and vagina as the pearls swirl and vibrate in your vagina and the pecking dolphin gives your clit the action it requires.

    For G Zone curious women, the Bush Warrior is the vibe for you – shaped to hit the area in your vagina known as the G zone.

    Toys are a girl's guaranteed way of learning how to become orgasmic. Investing in taking time to learn how to become orgasmic is essential for the woman who wants to create a sexual lifestyle. It gives her sexual confidence and knowledge of her own body to share with her partner.

  • Step four:
    Now that you have taken responsibility for preparing yourself to be an informed, relaxed and orgasmic woman, time to turn to your beloved.

    Your lover needs seduction, teasing and taunting, just like you do. Yes, perhaps he immediately wants genital action the minute you show him some interest. Train him to relax and just receive your sensual touches that may or may not become sexual.

    It's a good idea for you alone or with your partner to watch sexuality educational videos. It will arouse, inspire and educate you – routine sex is soo boring.

    Introducing any new touch, toy, technique will definitely excite him. So take responsibility for this newness, and he should do the same.

  • Step five:
    Same old, same old: "communication" is the final and most important step to a sexy lifestyle. Before you can talk to your partner, you got to have "the talk" with yourself.

    Ask yourself:

  • What can I do to create a sexual lifestyle?
  • What makes me sexually happy and hot?
  • What do I want my partner to know about me?

    As difficult is "the talk" with him, which is always done when both of you are relaxed and open to learning about each other's intimacy needs. Never criticise him, always compliment him on the good stuff he is already doing.

    Then encourage him to try some of the things you have discovered really excite you. Be very specific in telling him what these things are. Like, "I love it when you touch my inner thigh so gently. It would feel even better if you included touch of my outer vulva lips at the same time." Create your own sexy, spunky, dirty, romantic words.

    Spring into this sexual lifestyle with abandon, responsibility, and passion!

    Unfulfilling sex lives

    Her loss of desire for sexual activity
    Most commonly presented problem: she has no desire to be sexual, else she has desire but is unsatisfied with the kind of sex she is having.

    Reasons for this are numerous:

  • She has a history of sexual violence.
  • She has been raised in a sex-negative family and culture. This impacts on her ability to give herself permission to be sexual and she lacks sexual self-confidence.
  • Medical reasons and medications can inhibit desire.
  • Abusive, unhappy relationships will always create some loss of desire.
  • Loss of attraction for partner, partner’s poor sexual techniques, and his inadequate hygiene.
  • Fatigue, stress, overloaded work, home and social schedule.
  • His lack of hunting, lack showing comfort and desire. For her, his lack of adventure and sexual interest.

    Solutions:
    To overcome your ignorance, fear and inhibitions follow my guide to a sexual lifestyle.

  • Deal with the relationship problems in marital and sex therapy with an expert.
  • Always do a medical check up in case there is pathology or medication that is contributing to loss of desire, eg, depression.
  • If you tried to better the relationship and have done your bit, then consider leaving a relationship where you are not sexually and emotionally satisfied. A lack of sexual satisfaction is a good enough reason for leaving a relationship.

    His lack of sexual desire
    More commonly presented than one would imagine: Men loose desire to be sexual for the same reasons as women. Also, believe it or not, there are many men who do not think about sexuality 24/7. These low-desire men feel pressure to perform when their women are higher desire than them. They withdraw even more and relationship tension then becomes painful and obvious. Communication, essential to solving this discrepancy, seldom happens.

    Solutions:

  • Read The Sex Starved Marriage by Michelle Weiner Davis for both of you to better understand and deal with the situation.
  • Therapy for the both of you to redefine sexual and gender roles – he is still a man even if he does not have the "ever-ready-can-go-all-night-hard-as-steel" penis

    Her lack of orgasms
    33% of women in the world struggle to become orgasmic. Of those that are orgasmic, one third are always orgasmic, one third are a third of the time orgasmic and one third seldom orgasmic.

    Primary reasons why women struggle to become orgasmic:

  • Lack of knowledge of her own body, particularly her genitals.
  • Permission to be orgasmic not given to herself.
  • Inability to let her partner know what works/what does not work.
  • Unwillingness of her partner to listen to her and follow her directions.
  • Medical illness and certain medications inhibit orgasmic ability.

    Solutions:

  • Masturbate, masturbate, masturbate, using full body masturbation to discover where your own particular hot spots are.
  • Use a vibrator if you get too frustrated trying to get there with just your fingers.
  • Make sure you are comfortable with your body so you lose self consciousness in the moment and your entire being is focused on getting orgasm/s – thoughts of cellulite, flabby tummies and sagging too big/too small breasts get in the way of your ecstasy.

    Ask Dr Eve, (Marlene Wasserman) our sex expert, your personal question.


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    i did'nt know that martubation is the easy and the quickest way to know your body and i always strugle to rich orgasm now i know what i want and what makes me happy thanks to you.
    N on 30 Mar at 18:13

     

    I always orgasm when masturbating but used to battle during the actual intercourse. This is until i realised it was the guy and not me, ouch! Now I orgasm 2-3 times EVERYTIME!
    Cinz on 01 Apr at 14:52

     

    I need to stun my husband in bed and keep him calling out my name and for more
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