- consult you gynecologist.

36 - Wednesday, October 5, 1988 - North Shore News

LIFESTYLES

Love in later life can be wonderful

Q. AFTER 30 years my lover and I have been reunited. We have married and we are having the best sex either of us ever had. I would like you to put this in your column so that people will know that terrific sex is possible after age 50, and also that sex with your one true love is the best possible.

A. First, congratulations! That is a lovely story and will make lots of people happy — me most of all.

I don’t want to take anything away from that romantic and sat- isfying story. But I have heard from more than one source that some neople fall in love several times and each time is the best. And the sex is the loveliest ever. This kind of person has a most fortunate ability to enjoy life.

I am happy for you and wish -you everything wonderful in the ‘present and in the future. And I am: glad to print your reassurance that love and sex in Jater life can be wonderful, the best ever. But someone. will always take the wrong message from the happiest news, and I want to issue’a little warning, ~

If you and your lover ever develop some sexual difficulty, that does not mean that one of you

does not really love the other. In

some,.of the best-made marriages some'sexual difficulties have to be overcome when the couple shares love and understanding.

.Q. Most of the time after inter- course hurt afterwards even if it has lasted only 20 minutes. Am I doing something wrong? ;

A. Maybe. you are not using a lubricant and. you need one. Maybe you are not giving enough time to foreplay, not making sure that you are lubricating naturally. If this persists, after trying a safe lubricant, you should definitely There may be an infection or condition needing medical treatment.

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Q. I have only one orgasm per sexual encounter. J there some way I could become multi-orgasmic?

A. No way that I know of. Some women become multi-orgasmic and find it enjoyable, but this is not necessary for enjoyable sex — and not necessary for good sex or terrific sex. Don’t go into a long

ask Dr. Ruth Dr. Ruth Westheimer

and desperate search for the key to being multi-orgasmic. This is one of those things people worry about needlessly, like finding the G-spot (for which there is.no scientific evidence) or trying to achieve si- multaneous orgasms for both sex partners.

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It happens that with some happy couples one partner can experience only one orgasm during any period of lovemaking. When that is the case, the lovers can learn to make that one orgasm terrific. And the partner with the ability for several orgasms in a short period can be given them. Nothing wrong with that. It is the couple’s own special way of making love.

Q. We are a faithful, monogamous couple married 59 years. Of late we notice little or nothing of the pleasant odor the body produces during lovemaking. Is there any scent put out by a per- fume manufacturer that we could use to imitate that desirable and exciting scent?

A. Possibly, but if so it is not known to me. Perhaps some man- ufacturer of perfumes or sex aids will write to this column. The big perfume companies have laboratories in which they brag that any scent known to the human nose can be reproduced artificially — from new-mown grass to freshly baked bread to roses to rotten eggs. The nicest perfume contains traces of some nasty: odors, curiously enough. At least that is what they have told me.

There are scents some people use, believe it or not, to disguise the very odors you want to get back. But it is well known that the natural body scents are pleasing to many people and I would be sur- prised if your request has .not been forwarded to some scentmaker be- fore this.

With age some women lose lubrication and then the couple are advised to use some safe lubricant such as K-Y Jelly to make inter- course easier, more comfortable and more pleasurable. If sex becomes uncomfortable, keep that in mind.

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