Sexual health

  • UBC professor’s new workbook offers tools for a better sex life

    UBC professor’s new workbook offers tools for a better sex life

    When UBC psychologist and sex researcher Dr. Lori Brotto published her first book, Better Sex Through Mindfulness, she upended convention by revealing how mindfulness can be used to treat sexual difficulties in women, such as lack of desire, pain and trauma.

  • Sexual health and domestic violence during COVID-19

    Sexual health and domestic violence during COVID-19

    Dr. Lori Brotto, a professor in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at UBC’s faculty of medicine, is leading a national survey to measure changes in sexual health and the prevalence of gender-based violence during COVID-19.

  • Concentrate and be nice to yourself for better sex

    Concentrate and be nice to yourself for better sex

    For women, the answer to the loss of sexual desire does not lie in prescription pills but in the practice of mindfulness, says Lori Brotto, a UBC psychologist and sex researcher.