THE PERFECT Se ual Fit WRITTEN BY MELISSA MARIE ROSALES ART BY NATASHA ARNOWITZ

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t was the perfect first date. Clyde Rodgers*, a senior engineering student at Tufts University, took me out for drinks at Kings Dining & Entertainment in Back

Bay. We laughed and teased each other all night over a competition of air hockey and eight-ball. Everything was going well, so I took him home. It wasn’t until we were in bed that I realized a new problem I never had before: he was sexually incompatible with me. Dr. Kristen Mark Ph.D. said sexual compatibility is important in order to reach sexual satisfaction. Research shows that perceived compatibility is a major predictor of sexual and relationship satisfaction, as one increases (or decreases) the other usually follows. Unfortunately, the night left me with low sexual satisfaction. Rodgers and I started kissing, and then I wanted more, but he just kept kissing me. Rodgers likes a

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