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- Mel, selected from DivineCaroline
- January 10, 2011
- 6:01 pm
- 98 comments
By Aderline Peech, DivineCaroline
If you don’t remember the last time you felt like having sex with a partner, you are probably suffering from low sex drive. A number of psychological and physiological factors can have a major impact on your libido. Read on to know more about the top ten sex-drive killers.
Stress
Many people perform best under intense pressure, but sexual performance certainly isn’t one of those. Stress at the workplace, financial troubles, a sick family member, or simply a hectic lifestyle with poor eating habits can take a toll on your sex life. You and your partner can seek counseling from a sex therapist, learn techniques for managing stress, and work toward having a better lifestyle—if it’s stress that’s wreaking havoc with your sex life.
Relationship Problems
Knotty relationship issues need to be resolved and major differences ironed out if you want to reclaim the intimacy and affection that you once shared with your partner. Emotional closeness plays a major role in sexual passion, particularly for women. Poor communication, infidelity, constant arguments, and other relationship-breakers need to be eliminated before mutual sexual desire can be regained.
Alcohol
If you always require a couple of drinks before you can get in the mood for sex, there’s something seriously wrong with your sex life. Alcohol is commonly perceived as an aphrodisiac that breaks down barriers and inhibitions before sex, but all it actually does is numb your libido in the long term. Getting drunk might even put off your partner and you might end up having lousy sex. The same goes for recreational drugs and other so-called libido boosters.
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Mel, selected from DivineCaroline
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+ add your ownand bad health ? - not enough raw nutritious life-force foods.
Nothing new here. Statements of the obvious mixed with opinions(such as like your body as it is but lose weight!). Unhelpful, though no doubt done with good intentions
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Not really new info but still true
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Jacquelin E.
Another misconception furthered by vegitarians that meat is bad for you.
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Good to know that Mel can pull a couple of buzzwords out of her... hat and call it news! She never fails to disappoint.
Smoker and too much meat eating.
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