Impotence is generally a sign that indicates the person has another disease or addiction. Problems that are affecting sex life are physical, mental or social. People are spoiling their sex life by their perverted behaviours and addictions in additional to health problems. Major health problems that affect your sex life: 1. Alcohol: Alcohol not only causes liver diseases, it also affects your mood and behaviour. Alcohol consumption may lift your mood in the short run, but it causes serious effects on the sexual desire and performance in the long term. 2. Smoking: More than 10% of impotence in men/women is due to smoking. Smoking causes infertility by causing mutations in genes. It affects sex life by decreasing the desire to have sex. 3. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs): Sexually transmitted diseases affect your sex life by causing diseases like herpes and syphilis. Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the major culprit by avoiding even condoms. 4. Stress:Young couples are having less desire to have sex in daily life due to high stress levels in their work life. This is the major reason for increasing impotence cases in young couples even though they have no health problems. 5. Pregnancy:There is no need for pregnant woman to avoid sex unless advised by doctor. They need to change sexual positions as pregnancy progresses. 6. Menopause/Andropause:Menopause causes vaginal dryness by decreasing Estrogens levels. As age progresses, sexual ability of men decreases due to decreases testosterone secretion. 7. Poor Body Image: This is a psychological factor due to decreased confidence levels. Who with poor bodies feel inferior when they participating in sex. Psychological counselling and encouraging words by husband help to overcome this problem. 8. Diabetes: 30-60% of men with diabetes suffer from erectile dysfunction due to damage of blood vessels and peripheral nerves. High cholesterol levels reduces blood flow to genital organs by causing fat deposits in arterial walls. 9. Drugs:Anti-hypertensive drugs like … [Read more...]
Effect of smoking on sexual health
According to latest research reports, 13% of infertility is attributed to Smoking. Smoking has severe harmful effects on the men who have sperm count on the lower side. Smoking not only affects reproductive capability of parents but also causes cancer in their children by causing mutations in genes and chromosomes. When compare to non smokers, smokers require twice the number of In Vitro fertilisation attempts. In a report, the British Medical Association (BMA) estimated 120,000 British men aged 30 to 50 had become impotent because of smoking. Up to 5,000 miscarriages every year were linked to smoking and passive smoking, and tobacco was implicated in 1,200 cases of malignant cervical cancer each year. Effects of Smoking on the sexual health of Males: 1. Smoking decreases sperm density, total sperm count, total number of motile sperm and citrate concentration in sperm. 2. It changes sperm morphology, sperm vitality and ejaculated volume of semen. Effects of Smoking on the sexual health of Females: 1. Smoking accelerates the loss of reproductive function in females. 2. It advances the Menopause by 1-4 years. 3. It increases the risk of spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy. 4. Smoking causes mutations in ovum and effects reproductive capability. 5. High incidence of childhood cancer in the babies of smoking parents. … [Read more...]
