In a recent editorial in the NY Times entitled Sex and Depression, Dr. Richard A. Friedman, M.D., writes of a female patient,

"She was a 32-year-old woman who experienced a four- to six-hour period of intense depression and irritability after an orgasm, either alone or with a partner. It was so unpleasant that she was starting to avoid sex."

While Dr. Friedman offers a wide range of theories on the connection between sex and depression, (ranging from the psychological to the neurobiological), the first thing that came to mind upon reading his article was a line from Sex and the City in which Carrie says,

"In an age where women enjoy the same money and successes as men, why shouldn't women be able to enjoy sex like a man?"

It doesn’t take an expert in body-language to see that the First Couple is totallly into each other. Actually we don’t have to speculate too much about the Obama’s love-life because they’ve already told us a lot about it in a 1996 interview with the French newspaper Le Monde entitled "An Intimate Conversation with Michelle and Barack Obama."

Why should we care about our President’s love-life? Because with all the talk of re-building our country, our relationships could use some rebuilding too: divorces are rampant, infidelity is out of control and sex ruts are epidemic. So perhaps our First Couples can teach us a thing or two (or actually five) about how to have a successful marriage:

In the last year I’ve not only seen a significant increase in the number of men who are grappling with some form of DE (delayed ejaculation) —guys who can only reach orgasm via masturbation, guys who can't reach it at all—I've also been hearing increasingly from the partners of men with DE: women who are confused, at a loss, and fearful that their own desirability, or possible lack of sexual skill, may be part of the problem.

To get to the heart of the matter, I sat down with Dr. Michael A. Perelman, sex therapist extraordinaire and co-director of the Human Sexuality Program at Cornell Hospital in New York City. A pioneer in building a bridge between medicine and psychology in the treatment of sexual issues, Michael is one of the world's foremost experts on MODS (Male Orgasmic Disorders) and DEDs (Diminished Ejaculatory Disorders) and reassures us, with empathy and insight, that one’s sex life should never be declared DNR (Do Not Resuscitate).