Feeling Frumpy
• Gender Studies
Feeling Frumpy: The Relationships Between Body Image and Sexual Response Changes in Midlife Women suggests that what many women need isn't "female Viagra" but to stop feeling the need to live up to images of pop culture hotties.
I've known a fair number of women with "thick waists" who had great sex lives. Their distinguishing characteristic was comfort with themselves.
The researchers found that the more a woman perceived herself as less attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline in sexual desire or activity over the past 10 years. Two- thirds of the women reported one or more changes in their sexual response, most frequently desiring sex less and engaging in sex less often; although some women reported improved sexual response.
Happily the study of straight, white, educated women reports that most are satisfied with their sex lives.
Sexual satisfaction second to looking good and young for US middle age women

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Posted by: jeff | November 18, 2005 07:10 AM