Offering women advice on discovering more about their sexuality, this book aims to encourage greater assertiveness and skill in identifying and satisfying your sexual needs and desires. Following the life-cycle, the book considers the management of loving, contraceptive choices, common sexual problems, sex and pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood, affairs outside your main relationship, the menopause, and sex and the older woman. During the course of a woman's life, the function and purpose of sex swings back and forth between recreation and procreation. The earth may not move all the time - but, fulfilling or not, sex should always be caring and loving. The book aims to help ensure that it is. Tricia Barnes has 15 years' experience as a sexual and marital counsellor. Lee Rodwell is a journalist who writes about sex, love and relationships, and is the author of "Single Woman's Survival Guide", "Working Through Your Pregnancy" and "Women and Medical Care".