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Raven James has answered 67 questions.

I am a 44 year old male and my wife and I have had a very good and regular sex life (on average about twice a week) for about 14 years. However, the last 4 months I've been having intermittent erectil

I'm a 33 yr old married female and for the past 1-2 yrs my orgasms have gone from very intense & pleasurable to almost nothing. I can still achieve orgasm, but the muscle contractions are extremely we

hi,when i first got my period i used tampons straight away the ones that were too heavy for my flow.i noticed it had riped the inside skin of my vagina leaving me with to entry holes to my vagina.i re

I have a new girl friend and she has exposed me to some new things sexually. She enjoys 1) light erotic spanking (me spanking her) 2) Analingus by way of me doing it to her with my tongue and my

i always dringk my girl freind cum is it harm full

This is probably a unique question. My bf and I have a very open relationship and we have begun exploring anal sex, but we are both stumped on this. I can only reach climax through anal sex and he say

About a month ago, a few days after I my period was over, my boyfriend and i who both would like to stay virgins enjoyed other sexually pleasures being both naked. His penis didnt go in but I didnt no

Hello Sir/Madam I'm about a month away from being sixteen and I am very depressed. I have never had a serious relationship, and I am concerned about the lenght of my penis. The size is about 4 and

im 16 year old girl and have been in a relationship with my bf for several months. we are both new to certain sexual exploits. i gave him head for the first time a couple days ago and he said that i

Ok this is my question: I have a problem with strssing out everytime I have sex with my boyfried. Since I stress so much he decided that he'd only have sex with me for less than 5 minutes. he didn'

Im a 15 year old girl, and me and my (girl) friend are pretty close and open to each other. One day my friend ask if i was scared that my vigina was different than other girls i told her yes, We showd

I had sex with my girlfreind for the first time yeserday. She was a virgin, i wasnt. After having sex, she didnt bleed? Does this mean she is still a virgin? Does a girl have to bleed to break her vir

Im not sure where to ask, so i submitted this question in two areas. Earlier tonight my girlfriend and i were dryhumping and a lot of precum got on her (we were going at it for quite a while) thou

i have a sex with my gf and i always suck her boobd .one of my friend told me that it cause cancer .does it realyy cause breat canceror anyother ill effect on the boobs

Hi...! This is PAUL.I have a girl friend whose HIV status I dont know.For the time being lets assume that she is HIV positive.Now last week.... We had sex.I had asked her about her past and sh

me and my boyfriend lately has been having sex but for the past 2 times i started to bleed.when he pulls out blood is on his penis.Could u tell why is that happening?

I dated my ex girlfriend for 18 months and she never had an orgasm. This made me feel so bad. She was a virgin and had never masturbated and always said that she was fat, she hated oral sex and only e

my period is usually 27 days cycle. I was on my 15ths day since the first day of my last period. My boyfriend pre-ejaculated on his boxers. He touched the damp spot, then waited for 30 seconds before

I have always had considerable difficulty in achieving orgasm. At first I thought I just hadn't found a partner that knew what he was doing, but I have been in a few intimate relationships and there

Do all forms of the HPV virus coincide? I have had pap smears come back abnormal and my doctor said i have HPV which can lead to cervical cancer if left untreated but does that mean i could also get g

I am very concerned for my wife right now. We recently were married, and for the several days following we had sex several times. Monday morning was the last time, because she had to go on a busines

i am planning to marry my gf who is 4 yrs elder to me, i am 25 she is 29. are there any chances of problems popping up in my sexual life and also regarding she bearing a child?

When i finger my girl friend it hurts her. She is a virgin and if i go in a little bit it really hurts her. I have been with other girls and have never experienced this before only with intercourse.

I have been married for 5 years now, have had 3 kids. For the first year and a half my husband and I where very active in bed. I actually had a higher sex drive than my husband. But shortely after the

I have taken the pill(Orthotricyclen) for a little over 2 years, and recently stopped. While on the pill I had normal periods, but since stopping, I have not had a period (this will be the 2nd month).

I am thirteen i have a 5.5 inch erected penis, is this over average?

i have not had sex but me and my boyfriend mess around i am so scared of getting pregnant that i can never enjoy when i am intimate with my boyfriend. my question is that i was giving my boyfriend a h

I recently had a miscarrage at the end of march, and I was pretty far along. I recently started having protected sex in May, and June. Lately I have been experiencing some of the same symptoms i had w

Im 16 years old and I've had my period for about 3 years now. My period has mostly been pretty irregular, but now it's almost 25 days late. I've never had sex or anything like that. I've been taking n

Sometimes when my boyfriend orgasms it seems to go on a long time, in waves as it were. Once it was as though he was having up to 8 separate orgasms - we counted. There is usually quite a few minutes

Hi im 13 years old i have never had sex i have hit puberty already and i have little white dots on the rim of the head of my penis I am just wondering what this is?? I also have bumps on the

Can being raped stop me from getting pregnant?

I have recently had sex with my new boyfriend and although i have had sex numerous times before this occasion i experienced bleeding during and after the sexual intercourse? I have never experienced b

as a african american male with CP i find it very fustrating with african american females be they disabled or not.. their attitude toward disability is not postive. african american woman want to kno

PLEASE RESPOND!!! My wife and I just got married 2 months ago and we are experiencing frustration in sex. She experiences orgasm through clitoral stimulation but when I go inside her it almost al

Hello:

I am 54 years old and my wife just turned 49. We have been married for 24 years and have 2 boys 20 and 9 yrs old. We are both professionals, I am an engineer turned businessman and m

hi my bf and i have been going on for 3 years, we are so very much hot with each other because since then we still haven't rried that sex thing. although sometimes, when we are kissing, licking and do

Yes i am now 4 months prego. I have had one son already who is almost 4 years old. I recenly went for an intergrated prenatal screening, ultrasound when the ladie did the ultrasound she only checking

I just began taking the pill about a month ago. I am ready to have sex without condoms with my previously virgin boyfriend. I have been tested for HIV and been to a gyno so I am clear of STD's as well

I am not sexually active but my boyfriend has tried "fingering" me more than once. I was so mentally into it but I didn't cum or feel anything physically. My previous boyfriend couldn't get me to feel

I've got some questions regardging the effects of precum. I was with my gf, and she's a virgin and all, but about 5 hours before seeing her [around noon], I had masturbated and after that, I showered.

I went to visit my boyfriend and we began fooling around. Weve never had sex before but we were both naked. WE were cuddling and his penis was rubbing me from behind. He wasnt next to my vagina openin

me and my b/f were having protected sex and I was on my stomach the condom broke and he ejaculated but pulled out halfway into the ejaculation. I went to clean up and saw sperm on my underwear. Not

URGENT HELP NEEDED!!! Recently myself and my girlfriend were enjoying ourselves in a river. Things began to get a little heated and i inserted my penis into her vagina but only for a little over 2 s

Hi, I am currently taking the contraceptive Pill Microgynon 30 , never missed a pill and we use condoms. The other evening my husband touched himself at the bottom of his penis and reassured me no

My girlfriend and I have no problems with intercourse but when I cum deep inside she says it feels like pins and needles for a short time. Now this does not happen every time but more often than not.

Me and my boyfriend tried to have sex for the first time a couple of nights ago. I am 19, he is 25 and we are both virgins. He tried to put his penis inside of me, when he went in it felt ok but whe

I had a total hysterectomy 2 weeks ago and have experienced a very high libido for about 1 week now. Is it safe to stimulate the clitoris to orgasm at this time? I know that vaginal penetration is not