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This is the second reader questions I answered for Glow magazine. From January to March I am there official sex expert.
“Is there any contraceptive buying etiquette? It just seems unfair that birth control costs so much more than condoms!”

I haven’t heard of any birth control etiquette per se, however common sense can direct this situation.
If [...]

I’m the featured Sex Expert for Canada’s Glow magazine for, at least, the next four months. Watch for me January through to March.
Here’s the first reader question Glow asked me to answer.
Glow Reader Question:“I dreamt that I cheated on my boyfriend with an ex and I feel awful! What does this mean?”
My Response:
It’s not just [...]

Do couples have unrealistic expectation about sex — and how do we deal with those expectations?
We live in a very sexualized society. In the last twenty five years we’ve come to value part of our self worth based on our sexuality and sexiness.
With women’s emancipation the ideal that sex was her wifely duty was [...]

How long does good sex really last?
When a couple is first together, they have enough dopamine and the body’s own amphetamine-like hormones that they are sufficiently aroused in a nanosecond. So sex can last for three minutes and be mind blowing.
Generally though, after two years, it takes a woman a minimum fifteen minutes for [...]

Does kissing do more than simply lead to sex?
One couple I know has a “10 second” kiss rule. That is when things are getting hectic with kids, career, life, one would say, “ten second kiss”. They would have to drop everything and kiss each other for, well, ten seconds. It was their way of [...]

Dr. Brian Parker and I–a.k.a. Sex Doctors to the Rescue–were approached by The Charlatan, Carlton University’s student newspaper to answer some pressing sex questions their students had.
Here’s what I had to say on: how long should sex last, period sex, and whether to swallow.
How long should sex last?
There’s a belief that in order for a [...]

I recently did an interview with Self magazine’s Feature Editor, Caroline Schaefer.

Great interview with some thought provoking questions. Here’s what Caroline and I talked about.
Self Magazine
The subject is how life changes affect your sex life. Everything from little switches (hair color, bikini wax) to life shifts (new baby, moving to a new city) can [...]

This morning I did both an TV interview on City TVs Breakfast Television and a podcast with Hitchmag.com on the effects aging has on a person’s sexuality.
Here are some ideas that were discussed.
What are the myths when in comes to sex in your 60s?
There aer two big myths come to mind when speaking about [...]

A reporter interviewed me this morning for the Christmas edition of First For Women. Brenda Kearns’ story is about tricks to help women rasie their oxytocin level in order to lower their cortisol level. Great story and much needed to help us through the craziness of the holiday season.

This was my contribution to her article.
It’s [...]

Being naked in front of people.  It is our most natural state and yet many people are repelled by the sight of naked person (maybe even themselves).  Anthropologists and historians can site hundreds of years proof why we are so uptight around our nakedness.  Really, it all came to a head in Victorian times when [...]