Obesity Causes Bad Sex

[Shoshana Pritzker]

Obesity Causes Bad Sex
Obesity causes poor metabolic health and bad sex. Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) affects more than 40 percent of American women and causes problems with sexual desire, sexual arousal, lubrication, orgasm, sexual satisfaction and pain during sex. FSD is more common than erectile dysfunction in men. Unhealthy lifestyle due to lack of exercise, poor diet, obesity, stress and smoking is at the heart of the problem. Exercise is the key to preparing your body for sizzling sex. In the short run, it makes you pump out hormones that increase sexual arousal, boosts blood flow to the sex organs and primes the mind for love. In the long term, regular exercise reduces body fat and improves metabolic health, which enhances genital blood flow during sex, increases energy levels, improves physical attractiveness and promotes self-esteem. (International Journal of Impotence Research, 20, 358–365, 2008)

[lauras]

While being active, and healthy most definitely can help improve sexuality, it is not the only cause of poor sex. Often, women especially very thin women, have very poor sex, due to lack of estrogen, and other effects of not having good health habits. (Not that all thin women have poor health habits.)
You know how old I am. I've been having sex on a somewhat regular basis, since I was 18. I'm not proud to say I've had sex with a lot of men, I guess. I don't know what constitutes a lot anymore. In my day, it was more than 3. I've learned that the biggest sex organ all of us have is the one in our heads. AKA, our brains.
I can tell you, this past 2 years my sex drive haas gone through the roof, while DH's has gone the other way. I thik in my case it is a lot of things. I'm in active menopause, I've lost a lot of weight, and I spend my nights around hot men.
He is trying, sort of to do better. Since he's been eating a little better, and being more active, he's doing a little better. I'll take anything I can get. It has always seemed that no matter what my size, age, or pregnancy status, I've always had a healthy sex drive. Am I unusual?
You may get a whole big thing started w/ this post.
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