Bigger waist line means less sex for both sexes

As I'm on my rampage to understand MOJO and fitness, Suzanne Cheriton at Red Eye Media passed along a link to a study that came out last week: She's on it as per usual. Sexuality suffers considerably among obese men and women.

I knew that obesity can cut off circulation to the sword in men and can lead to impotence not to mention making the unit look smaller, obesity will also cut down on shagging frequency for men and women. Now this is a problem! Hello less caloric burning and sweating between the sheets only perpetuates the waist line expansion.

Obese women are likelier to neglect contraception, obese men are more prone to impotence and both are far less sexually active than counterparts of normal weight, a study said on Wednesday.

The findings highlight “a major reproductive health challenge,” requiring doctors to pierce the twin taboos of obesity and sex, it said.

The research covered 10,170 men and women aged 18-69 whose data was randomly chosen from a French survey of sexual behaviour carried out in 2006.

So what do they mean by overweight?

Overweight was defined by having a body mass index (BMI) of between 25 and 30, and obesity as a BMI of at least 30.

Obese women were 29% less likely to have had a sex partner in the previous 12 months, compared with women of normal weight.

Obese men were 69% less likely to report having more than one sexual partner in the same period and two and a half times likelier to report erection problems than non-obese counterparts. Obese men under 30 were also far likelier to have a sexually-transmitted disease.

Sexual dysfunction -- lack of desire or arousal or pain in intercourse -- was not a problem for obese women.

The study, published online by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), was headed by Nathalie Bajos of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) in Paris.

“In public health terms, the study lends a new slant to a familiar message: that obesity can harm not only health and longevity, but your sex life. And culturally, it reminds us clinicians and researchers to look at the subjects we find difficult.”

Now of course this might apply to everyone but it is another nail in the coffin of obesity. Nothing good can come from it. It's the type of issue that deserves more specialized one on one attention.

Life is too short to live without MOJO baby!

Jane
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