The libations and the nature of the discussion made it difficult to maintain the level of detail displayed above.
Other highlights:
- women "peaking" in their 30's- fact or myth, and why?
- multiple orgasms, and how
- getting "in the mood", worrying about getting out of the mood, thereby losing the mood
- WHAT WOULD SEX BE LIKE WITHOUT THE MEDIA'S PORTRAYAL OF SEX?
- long-term relationships and sex
- how often are you supposed to? three times per week? WHOA!
- the ethics of "faking it"
- the satisfaction derived from giving satisfaction
- sexual dominance and positions that evoke the dominant/submissive setup, and is this cool or oppressive?
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Hi,
I am sorry I missed this meeting on low-sex drive. I am not exactly sure about the nature of the article or the context, but I would love to read it. I don't know if anyone mentioned physiological reasons for low sex drive. But in my experience in the women's health field and personally it is highly related to hormones. That is right the little chemicals in your brain that communicate with the rest of your body are highly implicated in mental and physiological sexual response. For example, being on the pill for years, my sex drive plummeted I just thought "oh I am not in the mood, I am too busy, maybe I have been with my partner too long..." Well going off of hormone based birth control was one of the best things I ever did. I quickly realized I was much more "in the mood" and there was no need to fake anything. Needless to say ovulation causes major desires -- enter Zelda -- who is a result of those desires and actions. Also during breastfeeding women stop getting their periods, which is pretty cool, but from talking to others and again from personal experience sex drive goes way down -- worse than the pill. As soon as you get the period back (ie. ovulation) along comes the sex drive. Low sex drive is actually pretty treatable clinically. So I am not sure that that article is so silly. Not that a lot of social influences and expectations on women's sexuality is not a factor. But hormones have a lot to do with it. Don't lose hope ladies. Please bring up any issues with your women's health care provider, because they may and probably can help.
This article is for perimenopausal women but also talks about women on birth control pills. It presents a fair view and some good alternative medicine treatments. But summarizes saying that low sex-drive is not a problem unless it is perceived to be one by the person experiencing it. http://www.webmd.com/menopause/guide/sex-drive-and-menopause
thanks lucy!
Thanks Lucy! Just to clarify- the meeting was not about low sex-drive, but about sex in general. This article was just one thing that we, um, touched on over the course of three hours.
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