Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Q. I'm a 17-year-old male. I've been having "wet dreams" for years now. They were just a nuisance until I actually began to start thinking about sex. I have never...

Q. I'm a teenage girl, and though I don't plan on having sex right away, what I'd like to know is, does losing your virginity really hurt? A. The stretching...

Q. My parents are getting divorced, which is really upsetting me. I broke up with my boyfriend because of it. I don't want to go through the same thing. Is...

Q. Isn't it true that all females, when they reach their sexual peak, begin to masturbate? A. No, it's not true. Females may begin to masturbate at almost any age....

Q-I am a widower, 75, now living with an attractive woman. We get along wonderfully well, but my problem is impotence. I visited a men's health center which treats male...

Q. My girlfriend and I enjoy sex and we would very much like to try the side-by-side position you write about often, but we do not find it easy. Maybe...

Q-At what age or at what point do you think parents should talk to their children about the "birds and the bees"? Also, were you this open and honest with...

Q-I've been dating my boyfriend for a little more than a year and we've had intercourse a total of maybe 10 times. In the beginning he couldn't achieve a full...

Q-Back in the '60s and '70s the big sexual mystery was finding a woman's G spot. It is supposed to be located up behind the pubic bone. In over 20...

Q-Please answer this one-a divorce is riding on it. If a female has been fitted for a diaphragm before marriage or has been using tampons, is her hymen broken? A-I...