Regaining and Maintaining Your Libido With Kegel and Pelvic Floor Exercises
Posted: Thursday, February 04, 2010
by Keira Benson
It would seem that the old adage 'Use It or Lose It' applies to sex just as much as it does to any other bodily function
Except that, because it's all in the mind, the effect is magnified.
The more you have sex, the more you want it.
The crucial thing is that, activating the pleasure receptors and releasing the endorphins regularly means that they remain sensitive and compel you to repeat the exercise.
Recovering from the physical exhaustion of childbirth is hard enough, without the additional mental apprehension of how your nether regions have been altered as a result of the experience. Repeated deliveries can make you feel as if your vagina resembles a particularly old and baggy sock - all the elasticity has gone out of it.
If you do bite the bullet and attempt to make love, all the sensations are wrong and you can't feel things as intensely as you did pre-childbirth. It's frustrating and you'd far rather be doing something more rewarding - like sleeping!
This is where Kegel and pelvic floor exercises come into their own. Performed throughout your pregnancy, they help the blood to circulate to your pelvic muscles but also to those in the vagina, keeping it toned and ready to help expel the baby.
Once you've given birth, get right back to them as soon as your health professional gives you the ok. In many cases, this can be the day after the baby has made its appearance. You can fit in the gentle squeezing and releasing whilst you're feeding the baby and gradually increase the amount of repetitions as the feeds get longer.
Regular contractions will reinvigorate the stretched muscles, helping them to retract and regain their tautness and tone, as well as helping to prevent any possible prolapse problems caused by your unsupported uterus starting to slip downwards.
Once your children start to get older, the demands of parenthood can put huge pressure on a relationship.
Couples need to find ways to spice up their sex lives to keep them interesting, to maintain the excitement and levels of lust for their partner and imbue the physical relationship with a new sense of vigour. Giving you both the desire to stimulate those pleasure centres on a regular basis so that they keep on wanting more.
If you can make the time for some basic Kegel and pelvic floor exercises within your daily routine, this will increase the levels of pleasure that both partners experience.
Then, just as the children start moving out, the twin problems of Menopause and mid-life crisis arrive on the scene.
For men, there is the worry of performance anxiety or prostate problems. Squeezing those pelvic floor muscles regularly helps blood and oxygen to circulate to the genitals and the prostate, helping to keep them healthy and in good working order.
Various studies have proved that if a man has a lot of sex, the possibility of contracting prostate cancer is greatly reduced. Semen is known to contain various carcinogens and regular ejaculation is thought to lessen the instances of damage by expelling them from the body.
In some media articles that I have been reading recently, Peri- and fully Menopausal women are advised to masturbate or indulge in full sex regularly to maintain the elasticity and lubrication of their vaginas. Due to hormonal imbalances, those women who prefer to remain celibate can experience dryness and atrophy.
Anything that will stimulate the required areas should be embraced, including toys and those special Kegel devices which, after insertion into the vagina, emit an electrical pulse, especially designed to stimulate the internal muscles and alleviate any of the problems mentioned above.
Another option is to make the time for sexual relations with your partner. It must be more than just a coincidence that, after a woman hits 40, she is the recipient of a sudden increase in libido, resulting from the surge of unfettered testosterone.
Surely, this is one of Nature's ways to encourage us to use it rather than lose it... and this relates as much to the health of her marriage as it does to her pelvic floor. Our men folk, of course, should just go with the flow... in the best interests of our future pelvic health.
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Keira Benson has been told she has the pelvic floor of a woman half her age.
For more information on how to use it or lose it manually, visit:
http://www.kegelandpelvicfloorexercises.com
For more information on how to keep things toned with the assistance of devices, visit:
http://www.tightenmyvagina.info
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