28% of women in their 20's are unable to achieve orgasm.
42% of women in their 50's are unable to achieve orgasm.
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Donna has being taking testosterone for 6 years, and so far she's had none of the possible short term side effects. Donna says testosterone gave her libido back. ==================================================== Her research led her to the role of another hormone which drives desire. It's called oestrodiol.
During the normal menstrual cycle, oestrodiol rises and falls, peaking around ovulation.
And when oestrodial peaks, so does desire.
But what Lorraine discovered is that the pill can flatten out those natural oestrodiol highs.
And there's more - we now know the pill also suppresses free testosterone, potentially delivering a double libido blow.
While there are few good figures, estimates are that between 10 and 30% of women are affected. ===================================================
"In the short term, however, the pattern is clear. According to therapist Pat Love, about 18 months into a romantic relationship, a state of complacency sets in, and passion and euphoria begin to wane. Most women don't understand that this is merely another stage in the relationship, one that requires new stimulus, sexual and otherwise, to maintain interest and excitement. Instead, we assume our declining libido is a sign that we're no longer in love with our partners, and we can be tempted to look for another hormone high with someone new."
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Women early in relationships have another chemical bath going in their bodies that often leads to increased sexual desire. As the relationship progresses out of its early infatuation stages, that chemical bath wanes and often so does the sex drive.
In other words, while there are calculating manipulative women who are pretending to feel desire in order to get something, many women are dealing with a change of internal hormones that has nothing to do with trying to deceive men. And that they little understand themselves.
""There has been a dearth of research examining the relationship between body image and women's sexual response. These new results support a link between body image and sexual responding that needs further study," Koch explained.
The study, appearing in the current issue of The Journal of Sex Research, surveyed heterosexual Caucasian women of whom 21 percent said they were pre-menopausal, 63 percent said they were undergoing some menopausal changes (perimenopausal) and 16 percent were post-menopausal.
The results showed that, regardless of the woman's age or menopausal status, she was more likely to consider herself more attractive when she was 10 years younger. Nearly 21 percent of the respondents could not think of even one attractive feature and reported an overall sense of dissatisfaction with their bodies. The survey participants were most dissatisfied with their stomach, hips, thighs and legs - the parts of the body that gain weight with age. The researchers contend that the Western World's infatuation with youthful slender bodies creates anxiety about aging and pressure for older women to disguise what are otherwise normal changes.
Most interestingly, the more a woman perceived herself as less attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline in sexual desire or activity. Nearly 70 percent of the women reported one or more changes in their sexual response, usually desiring sex less and engaging in sex less often. Encouragingly, despite these changes in desire, the women reported that when they did have sex, there was a high level of enjoyment. "
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So, you may want to consider all the variables that impact a women's sexual desire before you choose to label your wife as some sort of deceptive manipulator who set out to snare you with sex.
