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IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding why people have sex

Choosing the right partner at the right time

Making babies

Determining whether a potential partner is sex worthy

Sex. Once you’re under its power, you’re a captive for life. It starts when you’re young. When you’re a teenager and your hormones are surging, almost everything you do is connected to sex in one way or another. And although your sexual voltage goes down a notch or two as you get older, many of your daily activities are still influenced by sex.

 You take a shower in the morning and do your hair to increase your sexual attractiveness.

 You choose clothes that will draw the attention of other people.

 You send sexual messages with your body language, from the way you walk to the angle you hold your head.

And it doesn’t matter whether you’re single or married, young or old, all of us are interested in how others react to the image we project. We want to be noticed. We want to know that we can still attract someone, even if we’ve been monogamously involved in a relationship for 50 years.

In this chapter, I give you a brief course in Sex 101, so that you and I will be clear about what I mean when I talk about sex. Although sex hasn’t changed much since men and women emerged from the cave, today’s sexual environment is open to confusion, so this chapter covers the basics.