Intimacy promotes attachment and trust

[The “Trust Hormone” – an excerpt from Sense & Sexuality] Intimate behavior floods your brain with a chemical that fuels attachment. Cuddling, kissing and sexual contact releases oxytocin, a hormone that announces: I’m with someone special...

Welcome to campus, girls

[Why Read This? – an excerpt from Sense & Sexuality] Don’t take this the wrong way, but I hope to never see you in my office. For more than ten years I’ve been a physician at a campus counseling center, and hardly a day has gone by without my...

Your fertility is a window of opportunity that will close

[Fertility – an excerpt from Sense & Sexuality] Seventy-five percent of college freshmen say that raising a family is an “essential or very important goal.” But 55% of younger high-achieving women are childless at 35. And 89% of them think...