Here are some tips for boosting your sexual confidence.

Why I hate the term cougar. Recently, I was having an e-mail discussion with my daughters and other friends, ranging in age from 26 to 61, and one of the 30-somethings sent a Newsweek link to a story about cougars, famous cougars, you know, Susan Sarandon, and we had Madonna, and we had, of course, the most famous cougar of all time, Demi Moore, and she was all over the term, and I hate it. I’ve always hated it. And she said, she didn’t see it as a put-down phrase.

UTIs, urinary tract infections. God, what a pain, huh? Especially for those of you who have recurrent urinary tract infections. So what causes them?

Is there sex after herpes or human papillomavirus? I wish that the culture didn’t do what it does with these things because I want you to know HPV and herpes are not nearly as big a deal as you’ve been led to believe they are. I’ve had countless young women and also men in my office who felt as though they had a big scarlet letter on their head when they were diagnosed with herpes.

I had a patient say to me once, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’m not so much turned on by my husband anymore, but worse than that, I’m not even turned on by Tom Cruise.