A new study has shown that sexually satisfied women are healthier than those who are not satisfied with their sex lives. A team of Australian scientists have conducted a study looking at the association between ‘positive wellbeing’ and sexuality and have discovered that women who were sexually happy were also happier generally in their lives.
The group of researchers asked a group of 295 women who were sexually active more than twice a a month for a month to rate their sexual satisfaction, personal well-being and then noted whether they were pre or post-menopausal.
They discovered that 140 of them were dissatisfied with the sex lives, the number evenly split between those who had and those who had not gone through the menopause. They noted that there was a strong correlation between good sexual experiences and a good sense of personal well-being.
However the study has been described as flawed as there is no way of telling whether the women with good sex lives were happy because they were sexually satisfied, or whether they were having good sex because they were happy.
One of the researchers on the study, Susan Davis of the Women’s Health Program at Monash University, said that the key message they wanted to be taken from the study was that sexual desire- or lack of it – was an important issue for women to discuss with their doctors, and it was important for doctors to discuss it with their patients.