Archive for May, 2009

The Marvellousness of The Kiss

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Have you ever thought about why people kiss? It could be a greeting or a sign of affection, but we all kiss.

Kiss through history

We don’t know fully where the kiss came from, it is well known that the kiss has been with us for a long time.

In the sixth century in France, dancing was one way to display affection, but every dance was ended in a kiss.

Apparently, Russia was the first to incorporate the kiss into the marriage ceremony, where a promise was sealed with a kiss.

The Romans kissed to greet each other. On Roman emperor showed a persons importance, by what part of his body they were allowed to kiss, from the cheek to the foot.

In 16th century England, the clove-studded apple originated. An apple was prepared by piercing it with as many cloves as the fruit could hold and then a maid then carried the apple through the fair till she spied a lad she thought worth kissing. She would offer him the apple, and once he’d selected and chewed one of the cloves, they would share a kiss. After that, the apple passed into the man’s possession, and he would venture off in search of another lass to continue the game with.

At one stage it was even thought that people found kissing pleasurable because when the two lips met during kissing, an electric current was generated.

A kiss is a kiss

Now days, kisses range from small pecks on the cheeks as a greeting, to an the use of the lips and tongue as a sign of passion. It is that action that when two people embrace, causes hormones are released into the blood stream, inducing a sense of euphoria that you feed in the sweetness of your lovers mouth.

It’s a kiss that brings every fibre of your being alive, turns your stomach over, sends Goosebumps up your spine. It’s a kiss that forgives your misdemeanours and smiles at your mistakes. Ingrid Bergman puts it together in that “a kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous”.

Female Sexual Health Problems

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

There has been increased interest in female sexual health in the past few years largely due to the development of effective treatments and orgasm boosters. Physicians are now learning what happens with females during sexual excitement and orgasm.

With the knowledge of normal physiology during orgasm, physicians as well as therapists, can now help females with their sexual difficulties. Sexual wellness for a woman translates simply to being able to have a satisfying sex life. Sex can only be truly satisfying if an orgasm is achieved and there is no discomfort during sex.

Many women go throughout life never experiencing the joy of an orgasm let alone multiple ones. Sometimes sex can be uncomfortable if not downright painful. There are multiple reasons for female sexual health problems like this that we’ll examine.

Female Sexual Dysfunction & Female Sexual Health: Psychological female sexual health dysfunction tends to be relatively common. Mental and emotional contributors, which include stress, changes in body image, relationship issues, and changes in sexual expectations all contribute to psychogenic Female Sexual Health problems.

There is no physical damage holding back a satisfying sex life. Female sexual dysfunction brought about by the use of anti depression drugs, antihistamines and beta blockers to reduce blood pressure could be considered a subset of this female sexual health problem. A Neurogenic female sexual health problem is a term used when female sexual dysfunction is associated with a neuropathy, which interferes with sensations between the brain and the sexual organs.

Organic causes of female sexual dysfunction, which is extremely common, are more complex and varied that of men. The female sexual health function is a complex interaction of hormonal events and psychosocial relationships. Apart from the emotional or psychological causes, atherosclerosis of the arteries still plays an important role as do physical changes which can include vaginal dryness or atrophy which in turn contributes to vaginal pain or irritation, fatigue, sleep disturbances, hot flashes, night sweats, and other general female sexual health concerns.

Some synthetic progestins commonly used for contraception have also been associated with a decrease in libido. It’s because of the complexity and the scope of the organic causes of female sexual health problems that drug companies haven’t been successful in producing the female product equivalent to male ‘Viagra’.