Understand the anxiety around sex and what beliefs are triggering it, says Van Kirk.Are you worried you aren't good in bed? That you'll come off as selfish? That pleasuring you will take too long? Reframe that anxiety. Your excitement needs to be louder than any anxiety to finish.

I reached out my sudded right hand and turned off the tap.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The frog, with its selective eye for instantly usable information; the pit viper, with its thermoception, which at night can sense the blood temperature of its prey; the common house fly, which equilibrates its flight with two cilia—these have supplied a new species of engineers with models.