One of the most difficult issues to talk about in marriage is sexual boredom with your spouse; most couples are not open with one another and get embarrassed to even broach the subject.

When sex gets boring in the marriage bed, it can cause problems in other areas of the marriage. There are a few reasons why the sex does get boring and what you can do about it.

As a clinical sexologist, I work with couples to improve the sex in their marriage. It is always so amazing to me how once the sex gets better in the marriage most other problems go away.

As a psychopathological term, neurasthenia was used by Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood.

Neurasthenia is currently a diagnosis in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry’s Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders).

Libido colloquially sex drive, is a person’s overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity. Sex drive is determined by biological, psychological, and social factors.

Biologically, levels of hormones such as testosterone are believed to affect sex drive; social factors, such as work and family, also have an impact; as do internal psychological factors, like personality and stress. Sex drive may be affected by medical conditions, medications, lifestyle and relationship issues.

It’s been more than a little sluggish around university senior Eric Wheeler’s apartment these days. Work isn’t getting done. Classes are being skipped. And assignments have piled up. And all for good reason.

Now that he is having sex on a consistent basis, student Eric Wheeler does little else but sit around the house and sleep.

For the first time in 16 months, Wheeler is engaging in sexual intercourse. The sudden burst of sexual energy has drained him of his motivation for all other pursuits-not that he’s complaining.

An erection problem is when a man cannot get or keep an erection that is firm enough to have intercourse. You may be unable to get an erection at all. Or, you may lose the erection during intercourse before you are ready.

If the condition continues, it is called erectile dysfunction. Erection problems are common in adult men. Almost all men sometimes have trouble getting or keeping an erection.

Masturbation is a natural physical function – “as natural as going to the bathroom or breathing air,” says Susan Kellogg Spadt, PhD, RN, director of sexual medicine at the Pelvic & Sexual Health Institute in Philadelphia.

However, there’s a social stigma surrounding masturbation that has led to numerous masturbation myths. Here’s an overview of those masturbation myths, as well as reliable sexual health information to debunk them.

Premature ejaculation (PE) occurs when a man experiences orgasm and expels semen soon after sexual activity and with minimal penile stimulation. It has also been called early ejaculation, rapid ejaculation, rapid climax, premature climax, and (historically) ejaculation praecox.

There is no uniform cut-off defining “premature,” but a consensus of experts at the International Society for Sexual Medicine endorsed a definition including “ejaculation which always or nearly always occurs prior to or within about one minute.”

Homosexuality (from Ancient Greek  meaning “same”, and Latin sexus, meaning “sex”) is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is “an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions” primarily or exclusively to people of the same sex.

It “also refers to a person’s sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions.”