Sexual healingLife and styleI have an active and enjoyable sex life with my husband, but I can’t reach orgasm without a great deal of drama. Should I try to be more restrained? I am a married woman in my 50s who enjoys an active and enjoyable sex life. Unfortunately, I can’t climax any more without a great deal of drama, including moaning, heavy breathing, even crying or shouting. We have teenage children and I worry about the embarrassment that I might cause them.

Mexico This article is more than 8 years oldThis article is more than 8 years oldIn the mountains of Guerrero small villages with few economic alternatives mark the first link in the chain of Mexico’s multibillion-dollar opium trade Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of Guerrero. The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing.

Pret a Manger This article is more than 8 months oldPret’s five-coffees-a-day subscription rises to £30 a monthThis article is more than 8 months oldChain raises price amid' ‘inflationary challenges’ but adds in 10% off food, as part of Club Pret rebrand Pret a Manger is upping the cost of its subscription service by a fifth – but adding a 10% discount on food and snacks alongside free drinks to the offer from Wednesday – as the sandwich chain warns that the “inflationary challenge” remains.

The ObserverNeuroscience This article is more than 10 years oldSexiest parts of the body revealed by neuroscientistsThis article is more than 10 years oldSurvey asks men and women to rank parts of the body by pleasure – and some of the results prove surprisingThe mind, said Raquel Welch, is an erogenous zone. And it is the brain, and how it organises our erogenous zones, that has intrigued scientists for decades. Why is a nuzzled neck sexy when few would be turned on by a nuzzled nose?

How to believePhilosophy This article is more than 10 years oldThe Frankfurt school, part 2: Negative dialecticsThis article is more than 10 years oldPeter ThompsonUnlike Hegel, Theodor Adorno rejected the idea the outcome of the dialectic will always be positive, and preordainedAlready in the comments about the first instalment of this series, a problem of traditions has emerged. For a predominantly Anglo-Saxon audience, raised in the empirical and positivist tradition, understanding a group of thinkers schooled in speculative Hegelianism and Marxist dialectics is always going to require a leap of faith.