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I was three or four and I remember squatting in my underpants wearing dark goggles staring, mesmerised, at a vivid bright blue light which fizzed and popped loudly. The air smelt dangerously acrid. Being a compliant child, I sat quietly along with several of my peers in a semi-circle around…

If you have a headache you take a paracetamol. If you’re vitamin D deficient you take a daily supplement. If you’re struggling with erectile dysfunction you take Viagra. Popping pills to treat physical issues is the one of the most everyday things in the world. But what if you just…

Senior moments happen to the best of us. You walk into a room and forget why you’ve entered. You spend half an hour searching for your spectacles before having it pointed out that they are sat on top of your head. You might have always been absent minded – I,…

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