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Sexual healingRelationshipsHe couldn’t maintain an erection, so he got some medication. But the fact that sex has to be agreed in advance is a turn-off for me I started dating my boyfriend seven months ago, and it has been amazing. I love him, he makes me laugh, he is so kind to me – but we still haven’t mastered the bedroom. When we first got together, he couldn’t maintain an erection to have penetrative sex.

OpinionCoronavirus This article is more than 3 years oldMy sister died of coronavirus. She needed care, but her life was not disposableThis article is more than 3 years oldRory KinnearThose who most need compassion are being hit the hardest. I hope our focus in future is the easing of lives such as Karina’s Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage My sister Karina has died at the age of 48.

Scary stories for HalloweenFictionScary stories for Halloween: The New Mother by Lucy CliffordAt first sight a familiar kind of Victorian cautionary tale, this story opens on to some unusually profound anxietiesI came across The New Mother via Alan Garner and Neil Gaiman, a promising route to the uncanny. Garner includes a version of it in his Collected Folk Tales, published last year (with an introduction that states, firmly: "We need to be scared.

Books This article is more than 1 month old‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashesThis article is more than 1 month oldAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down In a call to congratulate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her momentous 2018 primary win over Joe Crowley, a Democratic grandee from New York, Nancy Pelosi told the young socialist from the Bronx: “We already have too many old white men here in Congress.

Global developmentFrom a Somali love story to a deep dive into Congolese rumba, Guardian writers pick their favourite recent world cinema releases Read more: Books that explain the world: Guardian writers’ nonfiction reads of the year IndiaThe Great Indian Kitchen A leaking kitchen pipe is at the heart of this Malayalam language film, set in a relatively prosperous family home in scenic Kerala. Each day, the new bride asks her husband, a teacher, to get it fixed.

TelevisionInterviewBetty Gilpin: ‘I am more than the sum of my cheekbones and areolas’Rachael SigeeAfter years of playing bimbo roles, Betty Gilpin found her voice in Glow. Now with an essay collection and a feminist take on Watergate, she’s free to make ‘weird choices’ Betty Gilpin has a succinct way of describing what she sees as an “overcorrection” to female characters on screen. “I used to be a bimbo with tits. Suddenly I’m a Magic 8 ball with tits,” she says, referring to the child’s toy that tells fortunes.

MusicDid the iconic three-note sequence come from Stravinsky, the Muppets or somewhere else? Our writer set out to – dun, dun duuuun! – reveal the mystery There’s surely only one thing that unites Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, the 1974 comedy horror Young Frankenstein and The Muppets’ most recent special on Disney+. Regrettably, it is not Kermit the Frog. The thing that appears in all of these works has no easily recognisable familiar name, although it is perhaps one of the most recognisable three-beat musical phrases in history.

My family valuesFamilyInterviewJoseph Fiennes: my family valuesInterview by Joanna MoorheadThe star of Risen and Shakespeare in Love talks about his special relationship with his twin brother – and giving up your ego when children come alongPeople call my family a dynasty, but I’m not sure what a dynasty actually is. And I don’t feel part of one. It belies the truth of my real upbringing, which wasn’t grand at all; and it flies in the face of the fact that, at root, I’m just a jobbing actor.

Engineering This article is more than 6 years oldLight at the end of the tunnel: sun shines for Brunel's birthdayThis article is more than 6 years oldRail staff confirm legend that rising sun shines through Box tunnel in Bath on birthday of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Engineers have tested one of the UK’s most intriguing railway legends: that the rising sun shines through the Box tunnel near Bath on the birthday of the 19th-century genius who created the line.