One can never over emphasize the importance of sex to human body especially in a relationship as it helps in strengthening the bond of friendship and makes it last longer as the case may be.
Speaking candidly, sex is one of those things that will help keep the fire in any relationship burning. This means one’s sexual prowess will go a long way in determining if one keeps the relationship for a long time or will soon be on the list of ex-former. It has been discovered that lack of active sex in a marriage/relationship is one of the reasons partners cheat on each other-it is simply inadequate of non-satisfying sex in the relationship or marriage.
Interestingly, many people unwittingly kill their relationship by thinking and living with the false idea that sex is not very important-based on religious or cultural postulations that have been abandoned in antiquity. When sex is not enough in quantity or quality, the risk of losing your lover/partner becomes very, very real.
This does not mean that other aspects of the relationship such as emotional, physical and spiritual being are not also important, but it only simply means that one has to ensure that he/she keeps his or her partner sexually satisfied.
Apart from sexual satisfaction, sex is not just about pleasure but can as well prolong one’s life span. Sex does a lot more than making one feel good as active sex is said to bring down stress level, as stress-reducing hormones released after both have orgasm and also cure headaches. This may work better than pain killers for an average headache
It is also observed that sex helps one get to sleep easily as one may not get off quite as quickly as he does but over time, regular sex before bed can make it easier for one to get to sleep and sleep like a newborn baby.
One thing to know is that having sex will never change you as a person by reducing or adding to your personality.
It is often said that whatsoever God created is for the benefit of mankind. Based on this premise, we have seen some worthy families who often quarrel or divorce as a result of sex starvation from one partner. Most married women usually grumble about this but at times refuse to say it out.
A practical experience of how important sex is to the human body is about one beautiful girl who was living very close to my house in the village who claimed to be decent then. A time came when she fell sick and upon her admission at the Nazareth Hospital, one of the best in the state then, it was discovered by the doctors that the girl was not sick but actually lacking man’s touch or better still ‘holy water’ in her body. The doctors therefore advised the parents to take her home and always allow her to go out and this was what led to her quick marriage.
If then we so much believe in researchers that it is only with hot water one can make ‘eba’ and ordinary water does different things to the same ‘gari’ we should therefore always believe in the same researchers that says sex is very important to human body.
Yes, weekends are those glorious times of the week when we take care of those things we have pushed off including, sex during the week because of the pressure of work and also because of the need to wake up early and sleep late.
Now that the weekend stares each of us in the face, it’s also necessary to have a rough idea of what we will do in order to stay focused, healthy and totally revived up to meet the demands of the new week.
One physical activity that can help in this regard, researchers say, is getting down to ‘business,’ not necessarily to make babies, but really to unwind and let your partner feel your presence the right way all over.
Many long-married couples seem to miss out on the benefits of sex, which they, more often than not, push to the back of family agenda, especially when they are no longer trying to have babies. Yet, scientists insist that sex has so many advantages that affect our health psychologically, mentally, physiologically. This part of our social life is so necessary to our overall wellbeing that researchers counsel us to indulge in it for up to three times in a week.
Scientists caution, though, that too much sex can also be detrimental to health. They warn that having sex more than thrice a week can weaken the immune system and make us susceptible to infections.
Now, what are the advantages derivable from this physical gratification?
Boosts circulation, brain power.
Scientists noted that more blood moves through the blood vessels when you have sex, expressly cutting your risk of heart attack or stroke as a result. The researchers enthuse that sex releases certain feel-good hormones such as dehydroepian-drosterone and oxytocin, both of which play a huge role in pair bonding. In fact, because of its importance in love-making, oxytocin is variously referred to as the “love hormone,” or “cuddle hormone” because it is released when people snuggle up or bond socially.
The scientists also argue that sex can improve mood and combat anxiety by reducing stress signals in the brain. They counsel that when you have sex, it lowers the levels of cortisol the hormone that indicates high stress levels.
Sex assures that good coition can relieve physical pain. The magic hormone, again, is oxytocin, which it describes as a natural chemical in the body that surges before and during climax. Again, it says, “the endorphins released during climax block pain signals from reaching the nervous system and thus are critical to maintaining optimum health.”
A bout of colds can make you miserable for days. It is also discovered that “having sex once or twice a week increases the production of the immune-boosting antibody immunoglobulin by a third. Again, scientists say copulation increases the white blood cells. The white blood cells are the cells of the immune system that are involved in defending the body against infectious diseases and foreign materials.
Heart attack
In 2002, British scientists carried out a study of large population of men, and concluded that frequent sexual intercourse can “shield you from fatal coronary events.”
The researchers say men who have regular lovemaking are about “45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than men who have sex once a month or less.”
Another research by scientists at the New England Research Institute in Massachusetts and published in the American Journal of Cardiology, shows that “men who made love at least twice a week were much less likely to have heart disease than those whose sexual encounters were limited to once a month or less.”
Banish prostate cancer
Experts at the America-based National Cancer Institute counsel that men who successfully conclude a sexual activity at least five times a week were much less likely to get prostate cancer.
According to Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, says prostate cancer is the single most common cancer in men; while urologists warn that it’s also the second deadliest cancer, next only to lung cancer. Yet, experts say a simple act of regular sexual intercourse can serve as a preventive measure.
According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men who have sex at least thrice a week reduce by 15 per cent their prostate cancer risk.
Takes care of headaches
It’s not all about men, as women also stand to benefit from this benevolent act. Researchers enthuse that the endorphins and corticosteroids released during sex have analgesic effects on the body, relieving the pain of headaches, arthritis, cramps and body aches.
“Endorphins are a natural painkiller,” the researchers say; while “the production of oestrogen (which is also released during sex) in women may also ward off period pain.”
No more incontinence
Incontinence is the inability to control urination. And although urinary incontinence affects both men and women, physicians say women are twice as likely as men to develop incontinence.
But then, you can guard against this embarrassing phenomenon by having sex. Scientists say this is achievable because the muscles that regulate the bladder receive a “workout” whenever you have sex, as the entire pelvic floor muscles contract while the exercise lasts.
Again, experts advise post-menopausal women to guard against vaginal atrophy by having regular sex. It will prevent likely complications and urinary tract infections, we are told
Sex is not only just to make babies but it also does a lot of things in human body as enumerated above.