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71: How Much Foreplay is Enough?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 2, 2022 | Making Sex Feel Good, Series

How do you know when you’ve done enough foreplay? We’re starting a new series on the blog right now, leading up to the release of the Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex and the TOTALLY REVAMPED AND REWRITTEN Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex on March...

Is Women’s Orgasm an Afterthought? A Look at What Men & Women Think

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Feb 22, 2021 | Making Sex Feel Good

How do men and women feel about the amount of foreplay in their marriage? Yesterday was a super momentous day at the Gregoire household, because Keith and I (and Joanna!) finished The Good Guy’s Guide to Great Sex and sent it off to the publisher! Yay!...

The PODCAST Post: What if Giving Sexual Favors, well, Hurts?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 20, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good, Podcasts

What if you find oral sex or manual sex difficult because it causes muscle spasms? We talk about all kinds of weird stuff in our podcasts, and this one came up in some discussions earlier in the week on sex during your period. So we thought it was worth tackling!...

PODCAST: Whose Responsibility Is it That She Enjoys Sex?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 13, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good, Podcasts

If a woman isn’t enjoying sex, is the husband to blame? We received a comment recently from a woman whose husband has been listening to our Start Your Engines men’s podcasts, where we’ve been talking about the importance of foreplay. And he was...

Should Doing Housework Be Considered Foreplay?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 9, 2020 | Homemaking, Libido

Have you all heard “sex begins in the kitchen”–not meaning that we should do interesting things with whipping cream, but that doing the dishes is a good method to get women to warm up? I hear this a lot–“Guys, if you want her to have sex...

Start Your Engines Podcast: Do You Rush Through Foreplay?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 28, 2020 | Men's Corner, Podcasts

Let’s talk gender differences–and gender differences with foreplay! On the last Thursday of every month we like to do the podcast that’s aimed more specifically at men (though women will enjoy it, too!). And this week Keith and I tackled the problem...