Not tonight, darling: how the world lost its libido – and how it can get it back

After a year of lockdowns, home schooling, social distancing and stress, sex drives are suffering – among both couples and single people. Can we do anything about it – or do we just have to wait till the end of the pandemic?

I have never struggled to get an erection – until now. What’s going on?

My partner and I have a great relationship, but my inability to ‘perform’ makes her think I am not attracted to her

I’m 55 with herpes and low confidence – how can I have a healthy sex life?

I’ve had a string of failed relationships and I’ve been devastated by an ex-partner’s revelation and an STI diagnosis. I can’t imagine anyone would want to sleep with me again

Lloyds Pharmacy apologises again for emergency contraception refusal

Firm says sorry after pharmacist would not dispense product ‘for religious reasons’

GP cash incentive linked to fall in UK abortion rates, study finds

Use of long-acting reversible contraceptives rose due to scheme encouraging targeted advice to women

Men, let me introduce you to the basics of contraception

As women struggle to get hold of the pill, male bleating over condom use has rarely been less justified

Women in England struggling to access contraception as result of underfunding

Report calls for women to have access to progestogen-only contraceptive pills over counter

Covid risks making society more unequal than since early Victorian times

As life expectancy stalls and infant mortality rises, abolishing Public Health England will only make things worse, says public health expert Gabriel Scally

Men unzipped: Me and My Penis, the TV show where masculinity goes commando

Channel Four’s bold new documentary confronts anxieties about the male member. We go behind the scenes – and meet Ajamu, the artist and ‘sex activist’ who gets men to reveal all

‘Could I feel what they were doing? Yes’: Rob Delaney on the pain and pleasure of his vasectomy

The actor and comedian decided it was time to have the procedure after he and his wife had had four children. Here he writes candidly about the experience, and why it was the kindest cut

Covid and sex: charity issues guidance on reducing infection risk

Terrence Higgins Trust advocates face coverings and not using face-to-face positions

My life in sex: the man who finally opened up about his erectile dysfunction

Because I kept buying her flowers and putting off being intimate, she thought I might be having an affair

My life in sex: the woman whose husband has given up

We have occasional hugs and brief kisses, but that’s it. He doesn’t seem to care

The Guardian view on a women’s health scandal: under the skin

Editorial: An official review of vaginal mesh and medicines in pregnancy reveals systemic weaknesses, and sexism too

Doctors have failed when women in agony are dismissed as hysterics

The vaginal mesh scandal betrayed the intimate trust that should exist between doctor and patient, whatever their sex