Obesity and sexual desire
Today obesity is considered a disease that can affect anyone, young or both children and adults, for people who are in a stage of life where sexuality is active, the issue of obesity and its effect direct sex has become common and important to address.
While some overweight people say they have no problem to live their sexuality, low self esteem and the devaluation of themselves that they have many obese people do not cooperate so that sex is satisfactory.
It is not just an image issue, beyond which the obese person feel ashamed to show her body, have complex or is insecure and there are chemical factors influencing the desire.
The fat impedes blood circulation and causes hormonal problems such as low testosterone production, responsible sexual spark in men and women.
Martin Sex obesity and Binks, a clinical psychologist and director of the Diet and Fitness Center Medical Center, Duke University, explains that while there is a cultural pattern that celebrates thinness and excessive exercising a positive influence not altogether in some individuals; Obesity significantly lower yield and quality of life between the sheets.
A study conducted by Binks and a medical team from Duke University shows that obese people are 25 times more likely to report sexual problems than those with normal weight.
“Our study shows that there is a considerable difference between the quality of sexual life that lead people with normal weight and those who are very overweight,” says Binks. “Because obesity is a condition that is growing by leaps and bounds, more and more people having problems in bed.”
Excess fat, experts say, affects the production of hormones responsible for awakening the sexual instinct which has ensured the survival of the human race. Testosterone is responsible for sexual performance both male and female.
DHEA is the hormone responsible for controlling estrogen and testosterone, if a person is significantly overweight, your DHEA make more estrogen and less testosterone. In other words, the fat will have less hormones than desire and produce most of which entail a complete lack of desire to come into physical contact with others.
“Overweight impact on libido a hormonal issue, but also by other factors,” says Debbie Mandel, a specialist in nutrition, fitness and stress management.
In addition to low testosterone levels, says Mandel, the obese often have high levels of stress, one of the main inhibitors of desire.
As if this were not enough, body fat tends to have their blood vessels blocked by cholesterol, which makes irrigation to the penis and to the clitoris.
Men who suffer repeated bouts of impotence, or women who do not receive encouragement in their pelvic area, end up rejecting the idea of sex and suffering from absolute apathy, which becomes a vicious circle.