Sexy Hot Beauty : Orgasmic Sex Is The Best Medicine

Sex is great for the body and mind, say experts.

And they contend that a healthy sex life improves people’s feelings about themselves.

Little wonder, then, that researchers link sex to a reduction of stress and anxiety.

Dr Debra Herbenick, an oft-quoted expert from the Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, whose groundbreaking research on human sexuality is known among academics, psychologists, physicians, scientists, insists that sexual activity is good for the body and the mind.

Indeed, she is a highly vocal advocate of the benefits of sex and, interestingly enough, argues that the rewards of sex can be enjoyed even without a partner.

“The health benefits,” she said recently, “can be the result of partner sex or masturbation. All that is required is that a person feels good about it.”

But neither Herbenick nor the Kinsey Institute is alone in advocating this.

A scientific study conducted at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Edinburgh Scotland, concluded that people who had sex four times a week felt that they were seven to 12 years younger than people who have less sex.

At Rutgers University in New Jersey, Dr Beverly Whipple, a research scientist, found that sexual activity in general, and orgasms in particular, heighten people’s ability to endure pain. Scientists contend that sexual activity can reduce migraine headaches, chronic back pain and even bring relief from such things as premenstrual symptoms, cramps among them.

“Sexual excitement and orgasm, for both women and men, increase their threshold for pain. They are both less sensitive to pain and less likely to experience it,” Herbenick writes.

That’s not all. A study conducted in 2005 by Dr Patricia Barthalow Koch, a sex researcher from Pennsylvania State University, found that women who believed they were less attractive now than say a decade before had less and less enjoyable sex than women who still felt attractive.

The Joy Of Sex

In effect, a healthy sex life improves people’s feelings about themselves, underscoring the point that much about sex is in the mind.

Little wonder, then, that researchers link sex with a reduction of stress and anxiety.

How come? The answer lies in oxytocin, often called the bonding hormone that helps to put the mind and body at ease.

“Research shows that more sex releases higher levels of oxytocin,” said the Kinsey Institute expert. “And we know that’s good for decreasing stress. So, it makes sense that if you’re less stressed, you’ll look better.”

Physicians, too, insist that the body’s pelvic floor, which runs from the spine to the pubic bone, is not only the driving engine of sexual desires and as one writer put it, “contributes to arousal and the ability to have an orgasm” but also enables women to maintain more control over such basic functions as bowel and urinary movements.

“Sexual activity helps keep the tissue moist,” said Herbenick. “And it prevents the vaginal canal from narrowing, which is important for (access during) gynaecological exams. So, if a woman is no longer interested in sex with a partner or a partner isn’t available, masturbation is important.”

There is something in this for men, too, according to the Kinsey expert.

“We don’t really know why ejaculation is related to a lower risk of prostate cancer, but it is,” she said. “One theory is that with regular ejaculation other toxins or substances in the prostate are picked up by the semen and taken out of the body.

“Both men and women release high levels of oxytocin during sexual activity and orgasm,” Herbenick insisted. “And they release higher levels from vaginal intercourse than from masturbation or oral sex.”

Stated another way, sex without a partner is fine, but sex between consenting adults has considerable medicinal value; or as Dane Demas, a writer for LifeScript put it, it “may be the most potent medicine”. – Nation News