Sexual Health Issues
Sexual health covers everything from erectile dysfunction and the female lack of desire, to condoms and sexually transmitted diseases. Sex education classes generally prepare pre-teens to think about the consequences of their actions, but don't always provide all the medical information about how to recognize a yeast infection, how to perform a breast or testicular self-exam or how to deal with personal hygiene. All these lessons should be passed down from parent to child to keep children healthy and safe.
Recent studies suggest that trust is a large factor in the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, and it's not just teenagers who put too much blind faith in their partners. Adults need to take their sexual health more seriously, health experts say. New research suggests that the number of sexually transmitted diseases has doubled in less than ten years for people over 45 years old. Approximately 45% of older adults with an STD suffered from genital warts specifically, and 1 in 5 had herpes.
Older adults are less likely to use condoms, which explains the 127% increase in incidences. Teenagers most commonly contract things like genital warts, HPV, chlamydia and gonorrhea. Some say the increased access to birth control and the ease of treatment for many STDs has led to a rise in teens having sex, while other health experts argue that our society has changed and teens will live dangerously regardless. At any rate, sexual health is contingent upon education; not just from a class at school, but from at home. Parents should heed their own advice as well.
For men, sexual health issues include erectile dysfunction, testicular or prostate cancer, sexually transmitted diseases and performance anxiety. Sexually active males should get a check-up every one to five years, depending on the number of partners. Some men suffer priapism, a painful erection that will not go away, peyronie's disease, which is the bending of the penis during an erection, or balanitis, which is an inflammation of the skin covering an uncircumcised penis. Men with erectile dysfunction may find reprieve just by taking a pill, exercising or quitting smoking. While these sexual health conditions may be extremely embarrassing, it's important that men get some advice on managing these problems before their intimate relationships suffer or worse problems come up down the road.
Sometimes sexual health issues are psychological, rather than physical, in which case a psychologist or sex therapist would be helpful. For example, some men have an obsessive compulsion to look at pornography or masturbate. On the other hand, some women have an insatiable desire for sex with strangers or have no desire whatsoever. People who have been sexually abused as children often have a hard time connecting with another person. Other psychological sexual health topics include anxiety, depression, fear of rejection or failure, or feelings of inadequacy. The good news is that these issues can be treated by retraining the mind and gaining fresh insight from a therapist.
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