Sexual Health

 What is sexual health? 8 benefits of a harmonious sex life

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Sexual health and sexual health care are both ancient and fashionable issues. However, what is sexual health and how to achieve sexual health have different understandings and standards in different eras and different societies. So far, there is no scientific understanding. , authoritative explanation. Our medical scientists, psychologists, and sociologists are still not very mature in their understanding of sexual issues.

The World Health Organization believes that with the improvement of human culture and living standards, the impact of human sexual problems on personal health will be far more profound and important than people previously recognized. Ignorance or misconceptions about sex will greatly affect people's quality of life.

Sexual health refers to the sum of physical, emotional, intellectual, belief, behavioral and social health of people with sexual desire. It is expressed as a positive and sound personality, rich and mature interpersonal relationships, frankness and steadfastness. Love and relationships. It includes the following three aspects:

(1) The ability to enjoy sexual behavior and control reproductive behavior in accordance with social morality and personal moral concepts.

(2) Eliminate negative psychological factors such as fear, shame, guilt, and false beliefs that inhibit reactions and damage sexual relationships.

(3) There are no organic disorders, various reproductive system diseases, or physical defects that hinder sexual behavior and reproductive functions.

In fact, sexual health includes three contents, namely reproductive health, sexual psychological health, and sexual physical health.

Sexual health care is the issue of how to achieve sexual health. It is not only related to fertility and birth control, but also to medical care to prevent the invasion of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS. It is also a guarantee for the continuous improvement of the quality of life. Sexual health care issues run through a person's life and have different emphasis and content at different ages.

Childhood: How parents deal with children's sexual behavior of playing with their genitals, how to answer various sexual questions raised by children, and issues of appropriateness and taboos in parents' intimacy in front of their children and other behavioral issues.

Adolescence: Children are curious about sexual organs, contests between sexual organs, sexual games (such as acting as doctors and nurses, playing house, etc.), and imitating adult behaviors seen by their parents or on film and television screens.

Adolescence: masturbation, various sexual confusions or anxieties caused by physical development, sexual attempts among peers, anthropophobia, loneliness, boredom, physical discomfort, mood swings, and daydreaming.

Unmarried adulthood: sexual needs, difficulties in finding a partner, feelings of inferiority, sense of loss, lovelorn or falling behind, sexual anxiety, love without a destination, willingness to contact the opposite sex but fear of pregnancy, acting as a third party.

Married adulthood: sexual problems that arise with marriage, difficulties in adjusting to newlyweds, hymen problems, emotional alienation, divorce, extramarital affairs, unwarranted jealousy and suspicion, middle-aged sexual disorders, senile apathy, etc.

In short, sexual health is an indispensable and important part of human health, which must not be ignored. If you want to achieve sexual health, you must pay attention to sexual health care, and sex education is the basis of sexual health care, especially the strengthening of parents' supervision of their children. Early sexual education (mainly teaching by words and deeds, setting up correct examples and images), starting from childhood; giving full play to the active role of schools in implementing sexual education (this will play a role that is difficult for parents to play); all of these will give adolescent development It has a good impact on children during their lifetime and can benefit them throughout their lives, thereby ensuring their lifelong happiness and sexual health. Of course, people cannot ignore targeted sex education for people at other different stages of life.

Dr. Ted McIlvenna, who studies sex and health, is currently leading a survey of 37,500 adults to reveal the important role of a regular couple's life in physical and mental health. Their research results show that: long-term good sex life makes people less anxious, less violent and hostile, and also supports the body's immune system, can relieve pain, regulate endocrine, and improve mental state... Partners in a happy marriage will Have the most profit.

1. Make women’s menstrual periods regular and less likely to age.

Dr. Winnifred Cutler, director of the Women's Health Center of the Athena Institute in Pennsylvania, USA, affirmed the health-care role of sex life in terms of sex hormones and women's health. She said: "Regular lovemaking greatly improves women's health and longevity. the benefits of". Studies have confirmed that women who have sex at least once a week have much higher estrogen levels than women who only have sex occasionally. Estrogen can maintain the good structure and smooth function of the blood circulation system, reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol in the blood, and increase the level of "good" cholesterol. It can also keep the skin soft, prevent depression, and maintain bone health. The role of mass density. "Women who are in a stable relationship and have an active sex life are less likely to age," says Dr. Cutler. Her research also shows that being a couple helps stabilize the menstrual cycle.

2. Can relieve pain

Dr. Teresa Brady, executive director of the Arthritis Research Institute of Minnesota, said: "Many people mistakenly avoid sex when they feel pain. If you make love when you are in pain, you will be surprised to find out how helpful a married life is for pain relief." efficient". Southern Illinois Medical College studied 52 female patients who had sex during a migraine attack. Eight of them said their headaches completely disappeared, and 16 said their headaches were relieved. The mechanism by which living as a couple can relieve pain is still unclear. There is a theory that orgasm can activate "endorphins" secreted in the brain. This morphine-like chemical has a strong analgesic effect. "Orgasm is a natural pain reliever," said Dr. Whipple, associate professor at Rutgers University School of Nursing. She studied female patients with chronic arthritis and whiplash injuries caused by excessive flexion and extension of the cervical spine and found that orgasm significantly increased their pain thresholds (i.e. they were less likely to feel pain and became insensitive to pain).

3. Reduce menstrual pain and gynecological diseases for women

Dr. Reinisch, former director of the world-famous "Kinsey Institute of Sexology" pointed out that if postmenopausal women can have regular sex and have orgasms, they are less likely to suffer from urethral and vaginal infections, because sexual intercourse Behavior and orgasm can prevent the dryness of the vaginal mucosa.

Alfred Franger, MD, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, says: "Your sexual partner is a better agent than the diet and hormone therapy your doctor prescribes for PMS before you get your period. For 5-7 days, the blood reaching the pelvic cavity increases, causing you to feel swelling and cramping pain.

When a woman has an orgasm during a couple's life, the muscles contract, prompting the blood to leave the pelvic cavity and return to the systemic circulation. In this way, the tension is relieved. "

4. Can treat insomnia

Alexander Lowen, M.D., executive director of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis in New York City, also says: "Living as a couple is a great relaxant."

Living a married life can make people settle down, smooth the body and make people fall asleep, so it can be said to be a good stabilizer and insomnia treatment.

5. Can relieve tension and improve immunity

In the new field of "psychoneuroimmunology," experts have found that living as a couple can reduce tension and improve immune function.

Professor Chapman also observed that when women with breast cancer were sexually satisfied, they entered a biochemical state of euphoria and increased T-cell levels.

T cells are the bearers of immune function.

6. A good exercise

"Being sexually active is like doing a workout," says the aforementioned Franger, MD. A 120-pound woman consumes 42 calories per minute during sex, while tennis doubles consumes only 40 calories per minute. When we have sex, our heartbeat and pulse speed up, and after orgasm, our body relaxes. Chi and return to your usual activity level. Regularly engaging in marital life activities can increase the body's endurance, just like the goals pursued by various exercises in the gym.

7. Can improve our appearance and senses

"The tension-relieving effects of lovemaking can directly benefit the skin and prevent skin rashes," says Hitt, MD, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at Western University School of Medicine.

Dr. Resnick, a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, also pointed out: "Regular sex can stimulate the nervous system and make all our senses more acute. When you are in a state of sexual satisfaction, the sky will look bluer and rose than ever before. It smells and tastes sweeter than ever before, and the food tastes more delicious than ever before.”

8. Make people’s personality more joyful and approachable

Spouses who are sexually satisfied have happier families. Sexual satisfaction also makes them pursue family, career, and social life more and feel more valuable.

Falge, a marriage therapy expert practicing in California, said: "A gentle and considerate sex life can help cultivate communication and emotional exchanges between spouses, increase care and consideration, and make us take more into account the needs of both parties. Love can make People gradually change, and a person who is prone to anger can also slowly change the state of his emotional structure."

The various research results introduced above show that sexual behavior is beneficial to health. There is no prescription in the world that can cure all diseases, and there is nothing that can make people permanently healthy and free from disease and death. Living as a couple is certainly no exception. However, the more important thing is not to try to imagine what sex can't do, but to create and enjoy the fruits of a good sex life. (gxyzfcy)