Top 10 Reasons for Low Libido in Women

A low libido can have a significant impact on your life and may even lead to issues in your marriage. Those with a low libido should know the causes so that they can address them quickly.

Aging
As you age, things like menopause and hormonal imbalances can have a negative effect on your sex drive. Men getting older may also experience impotence which can cause problems. For women, things like vaginal dryness can make sex painful so they avoid it.

Overall Health
Your overall health plays a major role in your sexual health. Those with chronic medical conditions can experience sexual dysfunction, such as vaginal dryness and impotence. Medications can also reduce libido and cause problems with overall sexual function as a side effect.

Excess Weight
Excess weight may make someone feel as though they are less attractive, and this can cause them to avoid intimacy. This is more common in women, but men too can experience lower self-esteem if they start to gain weight. Body acceptance and working toward better health are very helpful.

Exhaustion
It is common for adults to get too little sleep because everyone is so busy with work, school, friends, and family. Over time, mental and physical exhaustion can start to impact different parts of your life, including your libido because you are just too tired to make time for sex.

Stress
Stress can impact all aspects of your life, including your sex drive. When you are experiencing stress, it is common to put so much focus on the stress or that you do not consider your partner. Stress can lead to exhaustion, which can also result in a reduction in libido.

Alcohol
Over time, those who drink excessively can see a reduction in their libido. In some cases, it may even cause men to experience impotence. Men and women need to drink in moderation to prevent this effect. On average, women should have no more than one drink per day and men should limit to two drinks per day.

New Baby
Having a new baby is a joyous time, but it may harm relations in the bedroom. In fact, about 10 percent of women experience post-partum depression and this further causes libido problems. A new baby needs constant attention and his or her needs come before intimacy.

Relationship Problems
If you and your partner are not connecting well, this has a profound impact on libido for both partners. Temporary disinterest happens and this is normal, but when it continues for weeks or months, there is a problem you must address to prevent consequences like low libido.

Depression
Depression is a common illness and one of the symptoms is a reduction in sex drive. When someone is experiencing depression, they often no longer enjoy things that made them happy in the past. Libido is often one of the first things they lose interest in and then things like fatigue further impact this.

Combination of Factors
Two or more libido killers can be at play, such as having relationship problems and depression, and this further lower libido and impacts your sex life. Those with more than one factor should concentrate on one at a time and work to resolve it so that they do not get overwhelmed.

Studies Say The Smaller Your Clitoris, The Bigger The Problem

New research published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (the only kind of medicine) is implying that it might not be the size and shape of the boat that matters, but the size and shape of the dock. That metaphor makes little sense, but come on board anyway. What I mean is: when it comes to female orgasm, size matters - clitoral size that is.

The vagina scientists used MRIs to scan 30 women’s’ pelvises. Of those women in the very tiny sample, ten had reported rarely or never achieving orgasm despite their best sexual and masturbatory efforts, the rest had what The Daily Mail referred to as “a normal experience during sex.” I’m not sure what a normal sexual experience is, but using context clues, I figured it means they had orgasms regularly.

Here is what the researchers found: “Although adequate sexual function is complex, we document that clitoral size and location may be paramount in impacting sexual function, specifically orgasm.”

The clit may look like a little button nugget outside the body, but the whole clitoral complex is the boomerang shapes and extends into the body “and includes parts that are known as the body, crura, bulb and root.” The research implies that perhaps the smaller the distance between the whole clitoral-boomerang and the vagina makes orgasming more likely because the clitoris is more easily stimulated during vaginal intercourse. Basically, it could be that the smaller and farther and from the vagina, the less likely a lady is to come.

The team acknowledges that “these physical characteristics cannot be changed,” but that doesn’t mean progress isn’t being made, “understanding the physiology of the female sexual response advances knowledge.” Knowledge is good!

This discovery is pretty freaking cool for a number of reasons. Because it focuses on female parts for once, values female pleasure and could lead to treatments for women afflicted with anorgasmia, the inability to have an orgasm and other types of sexual dysfunction. This is progress, people. I see a future with no gods, no masters, and orgasms for everyone.

Source: http://www.blisstree.com/2014/02/21/sex-relationships/sex/clitoris-orgasm/#ixzz2uKnezVHR