Yes to Health – Yes to Sex
By Blue Rose on Sunday, 1 of March , 2009 at 4:46 pm
Yes to healthy life with the help of sex!
Why sex is good for you?
Many experts say that life rich in sensual pleasure and sexual passion can protect against disease, fight depression, relieve pain and enhance your creativity.
Scientists believe regular, satisfying sexual activity can improve circulation, block pain and even boost immunity. And the emotional benefits are just as good. Men and women who eagerly pursue carnal pleasures suffer less stress, have better slef-esteem and a more possitive outlook than those whose sex life is more conservative. Apart from the sheer joy of it, you still need some excuses, here are the ways on how regular sex can make your life happier and healthier.
The Blooming Look
Many women notice their skin and hair looks clear and radiant when they are having sex on a regular basis. Why? Physical arousal not only boosts the flow of blood to the body’s extremities but it also raises the level of oestrogen, the hormone partly responsible for a creamy, silky-looking complexion and full, lustrous hair.
A single sexual encounter also provides modest aerobic benefit: about the same as you get from climbing two flights of stairs. When you get an entire evening of lovemaking, makes an excuse in going into a gym the next morning. It is also as good as having your daily exercise that empowers you and enhances your body image. We can also get the feeling of self confidences when we know that we satisfy our partners. And men are attracted to women who looks as if they enjoy sex and make love regularly.
The Monthly Period
An excellent practical reason to pursue the pleasures of the flesh: regular sex also helps regulate your periods. Winnifred Cutler, US research biologist and founder of the Athena Institute for Women’s Wellness, discovered that women who have sex every week are more likely to have a perdictable, 29-day menstrual cycle than those who are either celibate or make love less frequently. They also tend to be more fertile. “Having a regular cycle is the best way for a woman to be in control of her fertility “. Cutler say’s “If she knows when she’s ovulating, she knows when to tryto get pergnant, if ahe wants to”.
The 3B’s(better bone builder)
Regardless of age, women who have sex at least once a week can register oestrogen levels twice as high as women who are less active. Oestrogen helps you maintain a strong skeleton, so young women with even slightly deficient bonemass levels are at risk of falling prey to osteoporosis after menopause.
Winnifred Cutler came to a surprising conclusion: women with the lowest oestrogen levels weren’t celibate but had sporadic, feast-or-famine sex lives. “The more sex during the feast, the more the famine upsets the endocrine system,”she says. “A woman who has eight hot days in a row, ten cools off for three weeks generates a massive force, then lurches to a stop. “Our body doesn’t respond well to such a pattern.” In fact, she says, young women who only have the occasional sexfest “may be walking around with a post-menopausal level of oestrogen.”
Masturbation, she adds, may benefit vaginal tissue but it doesn’t oestrogen levels; for that, you need a partner.
“One orgasm can give some people six pain-free hours, whether they have arthritis or whiplash”
The Pain Killer
Sally decided to get on start again with her boyfriend Dan. But before she get into his flat, she strained her back playing squash. Dan was very sympathetic- he even did the washing-up – and, afterwards, as she lay on ice packs, they very carefully made love.
As their lovemaking progressed, they grew less cautious. Two hours later, Sally’s backache was just a memory, and she was still free of discomfort the next day when she got up for work.
So what happened? Sex releases a rush of endorphins, the body’s natural pain-killers. “one orgasm can give some people six pain-free hours, whether they have arthritis or whiplash,”says Judith Sachs,author of The Healing Power of Sex (only available in the US). Such relief, combined with post-orgasmic muscle relaxation and a good night’s sleep, may just have given Sally’s back the time – or at least the time free of pain – it needed heal. Endorphins released during sex usually provide only a short reprieve from discomfort but Sachs believes our subconscious remembers how erotic activity gives pain relief. “So, next time, relief arrives more quickly because you expect it,” she says. The subliminal mind may respond similarly to the opening of a paracetamol bottle, but which do you think it finds more fun?
The Anti-stress
Many researchers think stress is at the root of a range of ailments from tension headaches, stomach upsets, ulcers, job burn-out and neck pain to low fertility and cardiac problems. Many anti-stress therapies emphasise muscle relaxation: release the tension stored in body tissues and you also get rid of the symptoms it causes. The good news is, sex is one of the most powerful muscle relaxants known to physiologist. “Anything caused by stress-even a headache – will benefit from a good, satisfying sexual eperiences,” says US sex expert Dr Ruth Westheimer.
Susie is working as a trader in an international investment bank, so she got one of the most pressurised jobs in the city. She also gets the worst kind of headache – a migraine. Then she started pounding pain, nausea and an overwhelming desire to curl up in a dark room.”
Sex used to be the last thing on Susie’s mind during an attack. Then her boyfriend convinced her to try the last resort. The result have amazed her, its like all the stimulation of other parts of the body helped draw the blood away from her head. Now whenever she feel a headache coming on, instead of teeling her boyfriend , “oh not tonight, darling”, she tells him “Come on, get ready. This is the night!”.
The Body Defence Booster
Expert say sex may also stimulate our immune system. “When we are being caressed, we get a wonderful, tingling sensation from a whole variety of endocrine messages,” says Judith Sachs. “These chemicals also resonate in the immune system, spurring the production of white blood cells.” A University of Pittsburgh study of women with breast cancer found that patients with a full sex life had more disease-fighting T-cells than those with no sexual relationship, or an unfulfilling one.
Does this mean frequent fleshly pleasures can ward off a cold or help protect against flu? Not on their own, since diet, exercise and sleep haabits also have a big influence on our susceptibility to disease. But can you think of a more entertaining way of trying to improve your health?
The Sleeping Pill
Even insomniacs aren’t immune to the soporific effects of sex. Orgasm provides an “optimal balance of blood and lymph chemicals that signals portions of the brain to shut down for several hours,” says Judith Sachs. And, of course, the worries that cause insomnia just don’t seem so important after a Richter-scale climax….
The Self-Esteem Booster
Yes, sex does provide physical pleaure, but have you ever thought about how good it can make you feel about yourself? Few activities can have more positive effect on a flagging self-image than a marathon lovemaking session with a man who totally reveres your body. Discovering and harnessing the energy of Eros – and its ability to fucos a man’s attention on you – can be wildly empowering.
Jane went through secondary school convinced that she was overweight and unattracted, a feeling confirmed for her when a boy – no Tom Cruise himself – teased her one day during assembly. Her extra pounds were mostly baby fat that had melted away by the time she reached college. But, even then, she still didnt believe men could find her desirable.
Then, when she was 19, she slept with a man and discovered within herself a deep reservoir of passion, an almost frightening sense of sexual power. She was still not convinced men liked her for herself – old beliefs die hard – but her newly sensual self-image made many men fall in lust, and sometimes in love, with her. And, as Jane became more sexually experienced, so her self-esteem grew. While she was at college, she met Arthur, a man who made her feel lovable, both in and out of bed. They decided to get married two years ago, and now they have a little girl called Angel. And Angel has the cutest baby fat in the world.
The Emotional Pain Reliever
Emotional difficulties often manifest themselves as pain, particularly if you continually try to repress them. And where you experience the discomfort often has a lot to do with what’s bothering you, as William recently discovered. He sufferedd painful spasms in his shoulders that made him feel as if he were constantly preparing himself to a thump from a rugby forward. He confessed to his new girlfriend Lorraine that, not long before they had met, his former lover had ditched him for someone richer, younger and, as he put it, “noticeably less intelligent.” The feelings of abandonment and betrayal eventually subsided, but the physical pain lingered and throbbed – except when he was making love with Lorraine. Then, the tension would magically disappear and he would remain pain-free for hours afterwards – but the spasms would always return the next day.
After months of a deepening, trusting and passionate relationship with Lorraine, William gardually felt his pain ease. The more he open himself uo to his new partner, the more he realised that she was not about to leave him.
Finally, the pain drained away from his shoulders for good – William had found he just didnt “need” it anymore. There was no longer any threat of attack, no pending emotional storm to brace himself against.
The Sense Stimulator
When the desire for sex hits us, our senses start to hum like a power station. Odors may be particularly arousing because nerve pathways lead from the nose to an area of the brain close to our “pleasure center”. The most bewitching smells may not be the obvious perfumes and colognes, but subliminal attractants called pheromones. Researchers think our acceptance of a potential mate depends largely on pheromone comparability: you may love his mind, his earning power, his walk but, if your sense of smell gives him the thumbs-down, he’s history.
In some cultures, the aim of sexual union is to stimulate the senses into a trance-like state. Practitioners of tantric sex remain indefinitely pre-orgasmic by aligning the rhythm of their breathing with that of their lover. “When it works,” says Sachs, “you hit this wave-like state that’s even bigger than that produced by orgasm. You feel part of the universe.”
The Creativity Enhancer
Why do so many poets write about love an desire, rather than say, finance? One reason must be that the impulse to express ourselves creativity in lovemaking translates easily into broader forms of expression. Of course,creativity doesn’t have to be confined to the page: the most imaginative, best-laid career plans often come from the best-laid employees!
Bunny found her job as marketing director opened up when she found her perfect partner and started having frequent, passionate sex. “I couldn’t leave that part of at home,” she says . “I don’t mean I was flirting with people, I was more open to their input, and no longer felt I was competing with them. Now we’re generating I ideas and nobody’s shouting at anyone.
The sexual urge is part of a wonderfully human impulse to connect and communicate with others. Research into the brain shows that, in peak erotic moments, we may be able to bridge the gap between gender-related differences in perception. Even when pondering the same subjects, men tend to favor the left side of the brain, while women use both sides. But, during sex, things seem to even up. “feelings of pleasure come from our limbic system, near the bridge between the hemispheres of the brain,” says Judith Sachs. “It may be that, at orgasm, both men and women are best able to connect the two sides.” This may explain the pleasure each partner gets from witnessing the other’s climatic joy.
The implications of sexually induced whole-brain thinking are mind-boggling. But, even if it doesn’t make us more creative, we’re sure to have more fun!
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