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Lifestyle advice can be overwhelming, and hard to take; but your choices have an impact on your sexual health. So, to soften the blow – let’s hear it straight from the lady’s lips.  Here’s the Ladies Lips Guide to flying with ‘Mile-High AirLines’. Ladies and gentlemen –…

A strand from Les Liaisons Dangereuses has the morally righteous Madame de Tourvel seduced by Le Vicomte de Valmont as a bet with his ex-lover La Marquise de Merteuil.  Valmont and Tourvel fall deeply and passionately in love. Merteuil is furiously jealous and forces Valmont to reject Tourvel. Tourvel retires,…

Time spent in the sun doesn’t just result in a fabulous tan; it also allows the body the opportunity to absorb all of the vitamin D it needs. Vitamin D is a vital mineral, one that allows the body to absorb calcium, which is vital to maintain healthy teeth and…

Is big still beautiful? Venus did not suddenly appear in ancient Greece only to be stolen by the Romans, to be venerated by emperors as the archetypal goddess of love and sex. Her origins were tens of millennia earlier, near enough 35,000 years ago in Northern Europe. Then she was…

Films have long made the link between smoking and sexuality. James Dean, the dangerous bad boy, sat astride his motorcycle with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Sean Connery lighting up at the poker table, eyeing up his latest femme fatale. Massimo Garotti sparking a post-coital cigarette, with a…

The quest to delay the onset of age is one that human’s have been obsessing over for centuries. The cycle of birth, life and death is the one inescapable reality of existence – on this planet at least. What goes up what must come down, and no matter how healthy…

Dr Richard Petty is founder and medical director of The WellMan Clinic which he established in 1986. More posts by the Author: Coveys of Naked Ladies

During the festive period many people take the opportunity to relax, celebrate and over-indulge a little bit. It’s Christmas! It’s a great excuse to have some fun. But there’s a tendency to forget about taking care of our health during the period. Winter comes with cold weather, less sunshine, and…

You might think women have the monopoly on hormones and HRT; but you’d be wrong. In fact many men also go through a period often called the ‘male menopause’. Now, the name doesn’t have much to do with what’s actually happening. Unlike the female menopause, where the female body has…

… have appeared – shockingly pink, slender and tender, uncovered and unabashed –but lethal. Some unfortunates have mistaken them for edible ramsons, wild garlic. Cardiovascular and respiratory failure follow, around the third day post-ingestion. Initially the symptoms are much like cholera. All parts of the autumn crocus are highly poisonous.