Some believe that if a woman does not have sex, her health could suffer. Is this true?
Dr. Helene
Sex and pain
Some claim that an orgasm can help increase a woman's pain tolerance. After all, during orgasm the level of the hormone oxytocin in women's blood increases, and it is oxytocin that reduces pain — from headache to labor pains, especially during periods. However, a 1987 Murphy study showed that orgasm ===causes an increase in oxytocin for only 5 minutes, after which the pain if it was there, returns in full.
Sex and youth
Does sex make you younger? The influence of estrogen, the hormone that increases with regular sex, on the female body has long been studied, which is how we know that at premenopause and menopause when less estrogen is produced, many women complain about the dry vagina, discomfort during sex, and deterioration of the skin, hair, and nails.
In 2001, th...
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