How To Make Your Sex Life Even Better


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Communication

Sexual boredom and lack of communication between partners ends many relationships. But if a man is going to put his penis into the woman, and she wants him to put it in, they can't get much more intimate and close than that, so there ought not to be any great difficulty in talking about sex. Language, however, is often a stumbling block.

For many of the sex words are simply embarrassing. We can get rid of ejaculation for a start, by using "coming". Having sex or making love are good, and entering is nice way to say penetrating. Balls, cock and cunt may flow less easily off the tongue; fuck may be even harder for a couple who aren't relaxed about these things.

Men use the most basic words among themselves, but often when speaking to a partner will change their language. But what's really wrong with saying something like: "You've got a wonderful cunt! How do you feel about my cock?" If words like pussy are easier, then use them, but above all find some way of communicating......then you can avoid situations like this: One man told me he had a strong desire during the half-minute or so before he ejaculated for his partner to hold his balls. "She wouldn't object, would she?" I asked. "Of course not," he said. "Then why don't you ask her?" "But that's the problem! You can't ask a woman to 'hold your balls,' and I'd feel an idiot if I whispered 'Hold my testicles, darling!' "

Though I think all couples should be able to talk about sex, I eventually suggested he just took her hand and put his balls in it. He was delighted with this idea, and it worked for him, but how much better to be able to say it.

There is a similar reluctance to use four letter words on the part of women; but a woman knows that if she is going to be really sensuous, she must throw modesty aside. How can such a fantastic human experience as whole-hearted response to sex be circumscribed by modesty? However, if a couple really cannot bring themselves to use four-letter words during the intimacy of sex, then they will have to invent euphemisms of their own - for talk to one another they must. No couple can enjoy great sex until they are able to talk to their partners freely about their own sexual needs, likes and dislikes, and discuss freely their partner's requirements, too.

This talking together about sex is just ordinary straightforward communication. Such communication is essential, a fact probably only brought home to people who deal with the sexual problems of others. A woman complained to me that she had never had an orgasm during penis-vagina contact. Her husband can keep going inside her for five, often ten, minutes, but she can't come in that time and always has to be brought to orgasm by hand or mouth. In all cases like this, the first question I ask is, "Who decides when your partner puts his penis into you - you or him?" This particular woman gave what has almost become the stock answer, because it is so frequently given, "He does." "Does he ask you if you are ready?" "No, but I wish he would, because I always feel I'd like him to go on stimulating me a bit more before he does ejaculate inside me." "Why don't you ask him to arouse you a bit more, then?" "Oh, we don't talk about sex." Incredible? Yes, but also very common.....another example illustrates the same point....

Almost all women are very responsive to having their nipples rolled between fingers and thumb. Almost all men read this as "all women." But there are women whose response to this technique is irritation rather than arousal. One woman came to me because she was worried that her reaction might mean that she was abnormal. "It just tickles," she said. "What really turns me on is to have my partner hold my breast in his hand, and squeeze it hard." "Have you told him how you feel and what you would like him to do?" "I didn't want to, in case he should think I was kinky." "Well, you're not. So tell him, and if he thinks you're funny, tell him to come and see me." She had been putting up with real discomfort from a sexual technique which her partner used on her in all good faith, simply because they had not learned to communicate about their sexual needs!

Another woman told me, "I had an affair some years ago with a man who liked to rub his glans on my nipple until he came. It was the wildest sensation I've ever had. And I reached orgasm during intercourse as soon as I felt the first spurt of his ejaculate drowning my nipple. I long for my husband to do it."
"Have you asked him to?"
"Oh, no! It's not the sort of thing one can ask one's husband to do, is it? I would feel it was very immodest."
"Do you and your husband talk about sex?"
"A bit. But it's not very easy."
"But you are talking to me quite happily about aren't you?"
"But you're different. You understand."
"I'm a stranger. I would have thought it would be easier to talk to a man who is more intimate with you than any other man." I know it should be like that. But we don't really need to talk a lot about it."
"But you really do need to!"
After a pause, she asked, "I don't suppose you could do anything about it, have a word with my husband, I mean?"
"Yes, I could, but I don't see why I should. You can speak to him quite as clearly as me."
"But you would be able to sound him out first, to see whether he would object."
"Is he a prude, then? "
"No, but you must admit it's rather a strange way of getting turned on."
"Not at all. There are thousands of women who enjoy it just like you do. A man's cock is meant to turn a woman on, and seeing it ejaculating even more so."
But she still couldn't speak to him about it.....and, when I did, far from having any objections, he was delighted.
"I've been wondering for quite a while now what we could do, that was new. Why didn't she tell me herself?"
"I gather you don't talk to one another much about sex."
"No, not much."
"Well, I suggest you begin right away talking more often. You don't know what else you might be missing."

They had been married for four years, and in all that time she had denied herself sexual pleasure because she would not speak a few very brief words; and he had been missing out, too, for the same reason.

A young man came to see me about what causes delayed ejaculation. He was unable to ejaculate during sex even if he moved his penis in the vagina without stopping for an hour or more; in fact, it took his girlfriend over an hour of continuous direct stimulation to his penis before she could bring him to orgasm and before he was able to ejaculate, and that was only on comparatively rare occasions; very often he couldn't reach orgasm at all. This young man revealed under my probing that he had scarcely any feeling at all in his frenulum and glans. The sex books say that the massively nerve-packed frenulum - the little band of skin which joins the skin of the shaft of the penis to the membrane covering its head, on the underside is the most sensitive spot on the whole penis. For the majority of men it probably is, but for quite a significant number their most sensitive spot may be either the rim of the opening, or the few square millimeters just below the opening, or the edge of the rim which the glans forms with the shaft, or the groove under the rim.

I asked him whether he ever jerked himself off and how long it usually took him.
"Oh, four or five minutes." "How do you masturbate?"
"Well, I find that the underside of my penis for about an inch and a half from the base is very sensitive. I lie on my back and rub this spot with two fingertips."
"Does your partner know about this?"
"No, I haven't told her."
"Why haven't you?"
"I don't know, really; we don't talk much about sex."
"Do you think you might come more easily if she used your technique?"
"I don't see why not. But what I find is so bloody frustrating is being her boyfriend and unable to orgasm during sex"
"Now you've told me your little secret, I might be able to suggest something that would let you do just that. Lie on your back, with her lying on her back on you; or, it might be more comfortable if you slouched down on the couch and she mounted you with her back to you. In these two positions, those vital one and a half inches can't get into her vagina. If she rubs you there with her fingertips in the way you do yourself, I'm pretty certain you will come in much less time than it takes you now."

It worked; but what is more, the fact that her boyfriend was now able to ejaculate while he was in her unblocked him psychologically, and he was soon able to function in any position. It took only a couple of weeks, instead of the lengthy psychotherapy he would have had to undergo otherwise (and with no guarantee of success).

If you try it, you will discover very quickly what a timesaver communicating is. Normally it can take ages before a couple can begin to have really good sex if they talk rather than try trial and error - though that is the only way for a couple who have not yet learned to get to know one another sexually. Communication leads to imaginative sex; little tricks of your own invention; and it helps avoid recriminations or disappointments because you can communicate likes and dislikes before you get into bed. It saves time later, if each partner knows that as far as the other is concerned, certain things do not arouse him/her while others send them wild.

Even after you've been working at a regular sexual relationship for several years, it's no use experimenting sexually on another person if you don't know how the experiment is working; and you can't find out unless you ask and are told. For example, how can a man know his partner enjoys three fingers exploring her cunt, but not two or one, unless she tells him? How can a woman who once had a partner who was sent wild by the gentlest of love-nips on the scrotum know that her man finds the gentlest love-nips on the scrotum excruciatingly painful, but adores quite sharp love-nips on the tip of his foreskin when it's pulled right forward, unless he tells her? (Just a wild idea you might want to try.....)

There is another use for talking, too. Lots of couples are or may be capable of being turned on by listening to each other recounting, in considerable detail, past sexual exploits. No man or woman can use this technique unless they have the words and the freedom from inhibitions to speak them. Similarly, no couple lets any opportunity of sexual arousal slip through their fingers for want of being prepared. If a couple are not accustomed to talking to one another at all, they will be missing out on something which is an interesting and exciting sexual activity. One sure way to avoid doing so is to communicate.