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Does A Healthy Sex Life Contribute To A Woman's Overall Health? - Dr. Goldstein (VIDEO)

 
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Dr. Goldstein discusses how a healthy sex life is important to a woman's overall health.

Dr. Goldstein:
There’s a great importance to having a healthy sex life. I think, I think people get involved in “I am in a certain religion, and I am going to restrict my sexuality until a certain time in my life.” However, getting to the bottom line, women who have regular sexual activity in a loving relationship or on their own, have healthy general lives.

Sexuality and the ability to have orgasm and ability to want and have fantasies are all reflected in very positive outcomes; ego satisfaction and well-being, relief of stress, better sense of themselves, lots of data to show that. If there is a relationship, often stresses in the relationship can be resolved with wonderful intimacy, and not having that is another stressor.

Sometimes women, they are care providers. They provide for their adult parents. They provide for their children. They provide for their husband. They have, now you need two incomes to survive the economy. Then they come home at night and have to put sandwiches together for the kids, they have to do the laundry, they have to do dishes. They have to do whatever emails they have to do, and there’s like no time for sex.

It’s very important to put into the calendar - one hour: “John and I, sex, intimacy, communication, hot tub, shower together, cuddling, hugging.” Instead of TV time for that hour, use the time for personal romance. It doesn’t mean necessarily sexual intercourse. It means engaging and sharing intimacy with someone else.

About Dr. Goldstein, M.D.:
Dr. Irwin Goldstein is Director of San Diego Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital, the Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, a former President of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America and a Clinical Professor of Surgery at University of California at San Diego.

Dr. Goldstein has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970s. His specialties include penile microvascular bypass surgery, surgery for dyspareunia, physiologic investigation of sexual function in men and women, and diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in men and women.

Visit Dr. Goldstein at San Diego Sexual Medicine at Alvarado Hospital

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