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Charles Moser, Ph.D., M.D., received his doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study in Human Sexuality, where he is now a Professor of Sexology and Dean of Professional Studies. He went on to earn his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1991. He is board certified in internal medicine, and he is also a board-certified sexologist. He maintains a private internal medicine practice in San Francisco, with a focus on sexual concerns and the medical problems of sexual minorities.
Janet W. Hardy (aka Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green) is a writer, perv, girlfag, pain slut, and educator. The author or co-author of ten books about alternative sexuality, she has spoken at hundreds of conferences and workshops around the world.
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verdie, February 5th, 2010
We've had fun writing this column, and we hope you've had fun reading it. But as a result, we haven't really had an opportunity to talk about the kind of disasters that aren't even slightly...
verdie, January 29th, 2010
This column includes specific help for some of the commoner problems that come up (or don’t) during sex. But we can’t possibly list every single sexual dysfunction (pain during sex, lack of sexual...
verdie, January 22nd, 2010
It makes a tent pole under the sheets when the alarm goes off in the morning, but when you want it, it's disappeared: erections are tantalizing and frustrating phenomena.
One source we looked at...
verdie, January 15th, 2010
We asked a bunch of our friends to describe sex-related activities that seemed so simple that they'd never had the courage to admit they didn't know how to do them. One gentleman friend said, with...
verdie, January 8th, 2010
Menstruation’s a little mysterious even to us, and one of us does it and the other one went to medical school to learn about it. But between the two of us, we have a fair amount of information to...
verdie, December 26th, 2009
Unless you went to an extremely enlightened school, chances are you learned how to put on a condom either by trial and error or from a partner. We suggest you try our way—there may be a tip or two in...
verdie, December 18th, 2009
For answers on sex toy cleaning, we turned to our pal Frank Strana, founder/director of Scarlet Letter Services and a premier safer-sex educator.
"The easiest way to ensure that your sex toys don't...
verdie, December 11th, 2009
Well, let's start out by saying that one of us wrote a whole book about this (Health Care Without Shame: A Handbook for the Sexually Diverse and Their Caregivers), and that if you're gay, lesbian, bi...
verdie, December 4th, 2009
Extremely Complicated Instructions for Simple Stuff: How to Shave Your Genitals
A lot of people try this... once. Most, after a week of insane itching, rashes, and/or ingrown hairs, write it off as a...
verdie, November 27th, 2009
I had sex last night, and this morning I had a herpes outbreak. Could I have infected my partner? What can I do about it?
Well, yes, you could have. For years, physicians didn't know if someone who...
verdie, November 20th, 2009
Oh no! I forgot to take my birth control pill!
Well, let's see. Today's Friday. When was the last time you took your pill?
If it was Wednesday, you only missed one pill. Take the one you missed right...
verdie, November 13th, 2009
The earth moved. No, it wasn't an orgasm. I mean the earth moved!
Neither of us has ever been in flagrante during a quake—which, given that we both live in San Francisco, probably tells you something...
verdie, November 6th, 2009
The sex went fine. But now I've got this nasty itchy rash.
Well, this could be a number of things. Most likely is that you're mildly allergic to either the condoms or the lube. It's less likely, but...
verdie, October 30th, 2009
The first date was OK, but not all that great, and I didn't want to go out with her again. But now I'm getting all these emails and phone messages...
At some point—and it sounds like it might be...
verdie, October 23rd, 2009
I was right on the edge... and my vibrator quit. Please, please, please, I want my vibrator back!
This is pretty typical of the way electrical toys give up the ghost, says Uncle Abdul, author of...
verdie, October 16th, 2009
She came. She screamed. She passed out.
Fainting during orgasm, or orgasmic syncope, is one of those things that happens more often in porn than in reality. But it does happen in reality. Usually it'...
verdie, October 9th, 2009
My boyfriend was doing something reeeeally interesting to my balls—and suddenly I had this agonizing pain my right one and it won't go away.
Ok. Unlike a broken dick, this is an emergency. Testicular...
verdie, October 2nd, 2009
Owowowowowow! Vaginal penetration hurts me!
This condition is called dyspareunia, which means "painful intercourse." An old doctor's joke has it that "dyspareunia is better than no pareunia at all,"...
verdie, September 25th, 2009
I'm pregnant, but I'm not sure who the father is.
You're definitely not alone: DNA studies by paternity labs across the U.S. show that at least 10% of kids are not the child of the man officially...
verdie, September 18th, 2009
Rrahhharraharrgh. [Translation: I was going down on my girlfriend and my jaw went out of joint.]
This is a pretty unusual situation, but it has been known to happen. Don't try to push the jaw closed—...
verdie, September 11th, 2009
I've got something stuck in my peehole.
The urology department in a major California hospital has a Hall of Fame of x-rays of stuff stuck in people-s urethras—pencils, toothbrushes, you name it.
If...
verdie, September 4th, 2009
Things were just starting to get good and he put on the condom... and then all of a sudden he turned red and started wheezing!
A tricky situation. On one hand, turning red, heavy breathing, and...
verdie, August 28th, 2009
There were supposed to be three of us in that bed – her, me, and my erection. Only two of us showed up.
And she probably told you that that it happens to all men sometimes, didn’t she? Well, she may...
verdie, August 21st, 2009
"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right." Woody Allen, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
And what that means is that you're frequently going to have...
verdie, August 14th, 2009
[Publishers Note: We'd like to remind readers that the Sex Disasters column is taken from the book of the same name, that advice on the internet is no substitute for a real lawyer and that...
verdie, August 7th, 2009
I thought he'd consented to everything we did. But the next day he went to the cops and filed assault charges against me.
If this has already happened to you, you don't need us; you need an attorney...
verdie, July 31st, 2009
She just told me this is going to be her first time. Yikes!
Relax and breathe deeply. No, not her... you.
Introducing a young woman to penetrative sex is an awesome honor and responsibility, and...
verdie, July 24th, 2009
I just found a whole bunch of women's lingerie and bondage gear in my husband's closet.
Well, you're in for some interesting discussions, anyway.
For help with this thorny issue, we turned to Dossie...
verdie, July 17th, 2009
I just found out I have an STD. Who should I tell and how? And what if I can't find them?
If you've got an STD, your first job is to get treated. While you're at the doctor's office or clinic getting...
verdie, July 10th, 2009
My daughter walked in on my partner and me while we were having sex!
Children's sleep patterns often seem supernaturally attuned to adults having sex, don't they? The child who can sleep through the...
