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Live webchat with sex & relationships expert Suzi Godson - today 10.30-11.30am

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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 19-Jan-12 16:57:29

We are delighted that Suzi Godson will be joining us for a live webchat to answer your questions about sex.

How is it affected by the menopause? How can you keep things fresh in long-term relationships? Does (or indeed should) sexual frequency tail off as we get older? What kind of things can we do to keep our sexual relationships going? How do ageing, stress and changing body image affect our sex lives?

Suzi has the answer to all these and more so add your questions for her here.

About Suzi: sex and relationships expert for The Times, her Saturday Sex Counsel columns have recently been published as a book and she is also the author of the The Body Bible, and the award-winning The Sex Book which has now been translated into fifteen languages. For the last year she has been editing www.moresexdaily.com, a free resource which aims to help couples sustain sex in long-term relationships.

SuziGodson Thu 02-Feb-12 11:37:41

spid

About six months ago I found out that my DP was flirting with a work colleague online. He says there was nothing serious in it but I was deeply hurt. (The flirting was quite outrageous and she is half my age and very attractive.) Since then I have found it very difficult to lose myself in sex. I get flashes of fury and want either to burst into tears or do something violent.

For what it's worth, I believe him when he says they weren't having an affair (I saw her emails and they were quite polite and cool) but I can't forgive him the betrayal. Am I going mad? Is there some way of getting over this? I feel I have in normal life, but when we have sex it all bubbles up again and sort of takes me over.

Hi Spid

Jealousy and suspicion can be seriously debilitating. They eat into your psyche and before you know it you are secretly checking his mobile and trawling through his credit card statements.

I think you need to fess up to your partner and tell him how you are feeling. Getting those horrid thoughts out in the open is the quickest way to diffuse them. It will also allow him to see how his casual flirting has caused you so much serious pain.

SuziGodson Thu 02-Feb-12 11:43:54

kittyp

Dear Suzi

Slipped disc plus healthy sex drive - help!! The two are really not compatible but there is not much I can do about the former and I don't want to give up on the latter

Thank you

k

Hi KittyP

Ouch, sounds awful. My own solution would be tons of painkillers and a few glasses of wine but that is not NHS approved.

Basically you need to aim for positions where your movement will be limited: spoons, doggy, missionary etc..

And you could also try these. www.liberator.com/eng/categories/sex-furniture.

Although they look a bit like giant children's building blocks they are designed to support your back when you are having sex.

And your grandkids will obviously love them too.

GeraldineGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 02-Feb-12 11:48:50

A huge thank you to Suzi for a fascinating and incredibly helpful webchat. I don't know about everyone else, but I feel reassured, enlightened and a bit more optimistic than when we started.

Suzi's going to come back on later with some details that she didn't have to hand. And if you've enjoyed this and/or found it valuable, perhaps you could consider filling in her survey www.moresexdaily.com/the-survey/

Men have filled completed it in a ratio of 60:40 and she would love some more perspectives from women.

syberia Thu 02-Feb-12 11:54:43

Have done the survey.

bedfordgranny Thu 02-Feb-12 12:32:51

Fascinating webchat questions and answers, thank you Suzi. However, what about those of us who have human needs and desires but no one to share them with? What with separation and subsequent divorce it's about 16 years since I had a partner. Can we talk about 'self-pleasuring' or is it the last taboo and off limits?

CariGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 02-Feb-12 17:15:19

bedfordgranny - not at all - a very active thread on that very subject right here www.gransnet.com/forums/other_subjects/1190574-masturbation

bikergran Thu 02-Feb-12 21:59:34

lol @ cobwebs on the ceiling lol lol.ohh lol..

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 02-Feb-12 22:08:36

I'm not sure about the link to the sex toys shop (in Skydiver's reply). I don't think I'm narrow minded, but.............

Hmmm!

Nope! Didn't like that. Where's the love gonna be with that stuff?

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 02-Feb-12 22:33:48

What would you tell your kids these are, when they came to visit? Not to mention the grandkids!!! grin

www.liberator.com/eng/categories/sex-furniture

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 02-Feb-12 22:36:33

"And the most arousing thing for any man is feeling his partner come on the tip of his tongue"

Yeah right! Just a bit fanciful perhaps?! grin

whatisamashedupphrase Thu 02-Feb-12 22:36:55

I'll stop reading it now!!! grin

jeni Thu 02-Feb-12 22:46:48

Jingl! Quite!
Husbands like fellatio, but not cunnilingus! Mind you mine died 9 years ago.
I've not found anyone since!
I may be 67 but I would still like to have a relationship?
I presume you are joining the march tomorrow?
7pm.
Where are you putting that butterfly?

harrigran Thu 02-Feb-12 22:51:43

I was amazed that Suzi said those over 60 only had sex once every two months, where did she get that from ? She might like to think that us oldies don't indulge. If it was only on offer every two months he would be getting his marching orders grin

nanachrissy Fri 03-Feb-12 09:52:59

Harri especially in this chilly weather! Bring on the cuddles grin

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 10:14:50

Oh, it's mostly cuddles with us now. Sometimes I think I should try harder to bring it all back for the good of his health. It is supposed to be a good form of exercise for blokes. But then I think - hang on! I'm not a gymnasium. grin

He's happy. smile He likes his warm-up cuddles when he comes out of the bathroom in the mornings. He's freezing cold! I don't know why! Doesn't have enough hot water I reckon. hmm

Perhaps I'll give him a go when my free sample turns up.

jeni - I didn't know what that f word meant. I googled it. Eurrrgh. Dream old OG. smile

glassortwo Fri 03-Feb-12 10:19:28

Just wondering what uses more calories sex or housework grin

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 10:23:32

Housework!! I'll tell him to do that. I'm off for a nice walk. grin

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 10:28:49

Which do you (I mean anyone, not just Glass grin) find is the best way to get off to sleep at night. Imaginery orgasms in your head with someone like King Arthur or Genghis Kahn (he does it for me!), or eating something like treacle tart/Christmas cake/sticky toffee pudding/jam cap pudding and custard/strawberry shortcake with clotted cream/lemon ice cream and meringue roulade/eton mess/ Oh! sorry!!

Getting carried away there. shock

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 10:30:17

I meant imagining eating that!!!!

Don't panic Glass!!!!! grin

glassortwo Fri 03-Feb-12 10:39:29

I would say the imaginary orgasm is better for you than that sticky sweet yuck grin

I have taken quite a fancy for that american trainer Sky I on a Monday Obese: A year to Save My Life, Jessie something he is very tasty. ohhh. Now thats something tasty to think about. wink

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 10:41:38

It's good to know you are getting something out of that fat loss programme. smile wink

glassortwo Fri 03-Feb-12 10:45:46

It does have its plus points grin even if I put weight on this week!!! Got to take a positive from every situation wink

whatisamashedupphrase Fri 03-Feb-12 11:02:51

"that sticky sweet yuck "

I'm going to try to get that into my brain. A bit like hypnotism.

it's sticky sweet yuck
it's sticky sweet yuck
it's sticky sweet yuck

That'll do it! No more pub puddings!!! smile

Carol Fri 03-Feb-12 11:18:16

whatisamashedupphrasefor all of today's postings on here - priceless! grin

Dee Fri 03-Feb-12 12:29:57

I'm in the Manchester group of Growing Old Disgracefully and attended that workshop on sexuality at our Annual Gathering a few years ago.
It was fantastic, as most of our workshops are.
The one thing I remember contributing was that as me and my partner have got older and inevitably less obviously sexually attractive, our eyesight has worsened too. Once the glasses are off we are much more in tune with the other senses, particularly smell and touch which are just as arousing as they always were.
Incidentally, to the Gransnetter who looked on the g.o.d. website and was disappointed there wasn't a group near her.
You could always start one yourself. I'm the Groups Co-ordinator and have helped two women to do just that this year.
Go for it, I've never looked back.