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Why Women Stop Having Sex
Posted August 27, 2007 3:41 PM
Posted in dating, relationships, romance, sex, sexual intercourse
By Bob & Susan Berkowitz
There is a sex crime stereotype that when two people in a heterosexual committed kim kardashian sex tape free relationship noelia sex video are no longer having sex, the person who is most likely to have instigated the end of intimacy is the woman. She'd rather read a book, wash her hair, do the laundry -- pretty much do anything other than share physical intimacy with her loving spouse. She perhaps wasn't always this way; the relationship might have once been red hot. But now, bewilderingly, the passion has died.
Of the estimated 20 million married couples in America living in
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When we were doing the research, we were surprised that many men took the time to write to us that they teen sex gallery were, indeed, in sexless marriages, but it was their wives
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Please note that there is female sex no one easy response to teen sex pictures this question. A lack of desire usually stems from a
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Unfortunately, this usually isn't the case. One person still desires intimacy, and the other doesn't. Why? What are the gender differences in this situation?
Here are some preliminary answers.
Some women are telling us they just don't know why. They are confused, and would like to wish their libido a safe and fast return home. Others are more specific, stating painful intercourse, anger and depression as primary reasons for their lack of libido. A few say they just had a baby, or that they sex meter want to be absolutely certain they don't get pregnant.
Here's an equation: Pain during intercourse is, to many women, what erectile dysfunction is to many men. They are embarrassed to talk about it with their partner, and choose instead to suffer in silence and just stop having sex. (After all, who would want to have sex if it hurts a lot?) And like ED, it has many causatives -- some physiological, others psychogenic; some relatively easy to women having sex cure with very low-dosage hormonal replacement therapy, others more difficult, but still very possible, to cure with therapy.
Depression is another major cause of low libido in women, and, ironically, so are many antidepressants. SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) not only lower libido, they may also temporarily take away the
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