So try to look for answers to a question that no doubt worries many: how sexual abstinence affects the health of men and women. However, even individual words-concepts entering into this question require a separate explanation.
Israeli scientists found that after a 10-day abstinence, a significant part of the men participating in the experiment deteriorated the quality of spermatozoa, although their number increased.
A long-liver from Hong Kong, who celebrated his 107th birthday, believes that his longevity can be associated with prolonged abstinence from sex.
German skier Ronnie Ackermann, who won the silver medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics, also links his results with prolonged abstinence. Many experts believe that it is better for men to refrain from sex before competitions, and to women, on the contrary, violent intimate life helps to beat records. However, this theory has opponents.
For several years, American schools have taught the subject "Sexual Abstinence" to reduce the number of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies among adolescents. The paradox is that this subject was introduced under President Bill Clinton - the hero of the world sexual scandal.
The answer to this question is actually not so simple, because:
The temperament and the sexual constitution are different for all people, therefore for someone a week without sex becomes a serious test, and someone easily does without it for several months.
In addition, an important role is played by the reasons why a person has had a sexual respite and whether he gives him physical or moral discomfort, she is on the background of a lack of desire or vice versa - he has to be suppressed.
So, it is not yet possible to set the time limits, when the respite turns into abstinence, the specialists are not ready yet. However, they are sure that the absence of sex does not pass for the body without a trace. Sexopathologists conditionally divide the period without sex into two phases:
1. Accompanied by erotic dreams and sexual desire;
2. Restful when the gradual extinction / sublimation of libido begins, and returning it is not always easy.
What happens in men?
Men who for one reason or another are deprived of sex at a young age, although they may feel uncomfortable, but they do not cause serious harm, as a rule, they do not bring it, and they have a chance to return to intimate pleasures without effort. However, in adulthood, forced abstinence imposes a serious imprint on men's health - a return to sexual life, especially after a long break, can be difficult, against a background of a long absence of sex, various potential problems are quite likely. And the older the man, the more serious these problems are: if in 40 years the absence of regular sex is fraught with premature ejaculation and stagnant prostatitis, then after 50 it can be added even complete impotence, because the age-related decline of sexual desire is superimposed on the extinction of the libido from abstinence.
Forced abstinence affects the psychoemotional sphere of a woman and often leads to neurotic reactions. With what it is connected: with the lack of sex or with the fact that the woman feels herself no use to anyone - is unknown. Scientists believe that the grumbling of the so-called "old maidens" is, first, exaggerated, and secondly, is not associated with their lifelong abstinence, because the lack of sex for them is natural and is not perceived as a loss. It is more logical to assume that it was precisely the characteristics of the character that determined their female loneliness. Physical abstinence does not deliver to young women, who have sexuality in the making. But with age, a sexually mature woman becomes more difficult to accept the lack of sexual satisfaction. However, much here again depends on temperament.
Harmonious sexual relations are natural and, undoubtedly, a wonderful part of the life of any person and also a wonderful training for all body systems. Therefore, to refuse sex, of course, is not worth it. Sex in your life should be exactly as much as you want - this is an indisputable postulate that is supported by physicians of different currents, schools and directions.