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Sex and Antidepressants: Balancing Expectations
Getting hot and heavy with your partner, bodies meshed in a sweaty clamour of desire, you find yourself reaching that threshold before the release. It builds, swells inside of you. You close your eyes to revel in that point where your body finally tips over the edge but, suddenly, nothing. Complete and utter bodily apathy. No matter how much you want it—no matter how close you are—you can’t reach that ever-familiar climax that you adore so much. What is happening? You’ve just started taking antidepressants, but this isn’t meant to happen…is it? Unfortunately, the answer is more complex than a…
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Forever Rowdy: British Desire and Sex
As the story goes, when Queen Victoria was approached by one of her newly married daughters about sexual duties, she responded, in a sombre tone ‘Lie back and think of England’. And the story is 100% incorrect. In extreme contrast to this story’s implications, Queen Victoria adored sexual intercourse and, when writing of her wedding night she exclaimed, with enthusiasm: It was a gratifying and bewildering experience. I never, never spent such an evening. His excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness. He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and…
