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Chronic Illness and Your Sex Life
Sexual satisfaction and relationship boost quality of life, a major concern for people living with chronic illness. Chronic illnesses are health conditions that you have for a long time like cancer, arthritis, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease. Sex can be a great source of intimacy, pleasure, and comfort especially in a life restrained by illnesses. A good and satisfying sex life can make one feel “normal” when so many things have changed their lives due to their illnesses. This article tackle…
Why Do Women Lose Their Sexual Desire?
“Women’s sexuality tends to be multifaceted and fairly complicated. Although we would love to simplify it we could have the one-two or even a one punch treatment it doesn’t tend to work that way,” says the famous psychologist Sheryl Kingsberg.The loss of sexual desire is also known in the field of medicine as sexual dysfunction. It is not only men that are having problem with their libido but their women counterpart as well. In fact there are a growing number of women having problem with their l…
Impact of Illness on Couples Relationships
Sex is a complex process that largely depends on the endocrine, vascular, and neurologic systems and is affected by a number of psychosocial factors. Sexual functioning can also be affected by illnesses and their treatments. Many people with illnesses become sexually inactive or find themselves disinterested in sex because of fatigue, depression, anxiety, stress, and pain that come with it. Illnesses particularly become a major problem for couples since they affect their sexual and other intimat…
Battling Sexual Addiction
There is a huge difference between someone who loves sex compare to someone who is addicted to sex. Just as it is normal for a person to be addicted to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and others a person can also be addicted to sex from telephone sex, Internet sex, masturbation to physical intimacy with another or party aside from themselves or their partners.You might think that it would be hard to distinguish someone who is very much addicted to sex. But then again, there are many ways for one to d…
Working Out for Better Sex Life
Yes. There is a way for someone to have a very good and better sex life. “If you feel good about yourself, you are in a better position to feel good about relationships, including you sex life.” says the New York psychologist Karen Zager. Eat, Exercise, Relax and Sleep is the formula for the better sex life.Eating RightThere has been no direct proven connection with regard to the effect of a balanced diet to bedroom performance. Yet again, research shows that illness can be a big hindrance for p…
The Basics of Sex Therapy
Some couple not only would have to deal with problems about finances, childcare, in-laws, and other things that would test their relationship, they also would have to cope with an issue that one or both of them may have: problematic sexual behaviors. These issues range from sexless marriage, erectile dysfunction, performance anxiety, lack of physical affection, and negative thoughts about sex in general. Sexual problems are almost intertwined with psychological issues, which is why sexual therap…
Myths About Healthy Sex
Most people get then too think that they do not have a good sex life. The big factor why people tend to get agitated thinking that they are not getting something good enough is also due to the idea that there is such thing as ‘perfect sex’ with their partners. But the truth is, there is no such thing as ‘perfect sex.’ One does not have to have multiple orgasm to achieve the right amount of intimacy to keep the relationship growing and multiply orgasm alone is not the sole measurement for one to …
Reasons You’re Not Having Sex
Many couple these days are living in a sex less relationship or rather marriage having sex for at least only ten times a year. This so-called phenomena has been rampant world wide these days compare to its occurrence during the year 1950’s and below.Be it physical, mental and emotional health having a regular sex life is good for ones well being. Lack of time is not merely the reason for not having the right amount and more of having that intimate time with your partner. It may also be the bedro…
Managing Stress in a Relationships
The stress that we get pertaining to our relationship with people such as our family, friends and colleagues can affect us in many ways. Relationship stress may affect the quality and quantity of our work, ruin our family or rather our bonds with friends and colleagues.As cliché as it may sound everybody have their own problems their own ups and downs and it seems like for every problem that we face it is not the discovery or the acceptance of the issue the toughest part but the process of copin…
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