상상육체와 섹스욕망

streetcar named desire. 여인의 갱년기는 성관계-성교-와 아무런 영향을 미치지 못한다는 사실이

최근 생물행동학을 전공하는 조사자에 의해 밝혀졌다.35살에서 55살까지의 백인 여성 307명을 대상으로

하였고 이들 중21%는 갱년기 전이고 63.5%는 진행중이고 15.5%는 갱년기에 든 사람들이었다. 21%가

자신의 육체에 아주 불만이고 어느 한 부분이라도 특별한 곳이 없으며 특히 배나 복부에 불만 이었다고

한다. 2/3는 10년전에 비해 섹스욕망이 거의 없으며 거의 성관계를 갖지않는다고. 자신의 육체에서 어느

한 부분도 매력저인 곳이 없다고 생각할 수록 섹스 욕망이 없어져 갔다. 재밋는 사실은 성관계를 갖는

여인 중 72%는 성교시에 아주 대단한 육체적 정신적 만족을 느낀다고했다. 결과적으로 지금까지 모든

섹스욕망의 조사에서 자기 육체를 연상하는 것과 성관계욕망 섹스열망의 관계를 조사하지 않았다는

것이다. 내 신체 어느 부분이 뛰어났다고 생각할수록 욕멍도 만족도 커진다는, 음 일리가...

Body image causes lack of desire

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who lose their sexual desire as they age may not be the victims

of hormonal changes but may be reacting to their own body image, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

The more a woman perceived herself as less attractive, the more likely she was to report a decline

in sexual desire or activity over the past 10 years, the team at Penn State University found.

"Our results suggest that 'treatment,' via medication, of menopausal effects for this purpose seems

unwarranted in light of the findings that menopausal status did not have a significant impact on

the sexual responding of the women in this study," said Dr. Patricia Barthalow Koch, an associate

professor of biobehavioral health and women's studies who led the study.

Koch's team studied 307 mostly white, heterosexual women aged 35 to 55.

About 21 percent said they were pre-menopausal, 63.5 percent said they were undergoing some

menopausal changes and 15.5 percent were past menopause.

Nearly 21 percent of the women could not think of even one attractive feature and reported an overall

sense of dissatisfaction with their bodies, Koch's team reported in The Journal of Sex Research.

The women especially disliked their stomachs or abdomens, hips, thighs and legs.

Two-thirds of the women said they either desired sex less than 10 years before or that they had sex less often.

But the women reported that when they did have sex, there was a high level of enjoyment, with 72 percent

saying they were physically and emotionally satisfied in their sexual relationships.

"There has been a dearth of research examining the relationship between body image and women's sexual

response. These new results support a link between body image and sexual responding that needs

further study," Koch said.