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Question by futureman: Can abstinence (sexual inactivity) can cause impotence in the males?
I asked a similar question about one year ago and many people answered no. You should be reading medical articles before answering medical questions. You should read an article, “How an erection occurs: Men’s sexual health” by Faculty of the Harvard Medical school,one of the best in the country. It says,”Indeed, erections may work on a use-it-or-lose-it principle. Some research suggests that when the penis is flaccid for long periods of time – and deprived of a lot of oxygen-rich blood – the low oxygen level causes some muscle cells to lose their flexibility and gradually change into something akin to scar tissue. This scar tissue seems to interfere with the penis’s ability to expand when it’s filled with blood.”

Best answer:

Answer by al-in-chgo
Was there a question, or are you just trying to flaunt your erudition?

What do you think? Answer below!

Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) January 21, 2009

The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation is garnering praise and recognition for its international work making the latest information on sexual health and female sexual health disorders easily accessible to both the public and healthcare professionals. Two healthcare websites have recognized TWSHF’s blog for its content and contributions to healthcare education.

TWSHF was recently named one of the “100 Best Health Care Policy Blogs” by RNCentral.com, a website for nurses and nursing students that provides resources, links, articles, a forum and education information. The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation blog features personal and insightful views on today’s women’s health trends, research and news.    RNCentral.com compiled the list of best blogs to help the public and healthcare professionals navigate through the vast amount of health information that is available on the internet. TWSHF blog is one of only seven blogs dealing with sexual health to be selected.

Wellsphere recently awarded TWSHF the Top Health Blogger to recognize the Foundation’s contribution to helping people live healthier lives. TWSHF is distinguished as a top blogger within the Women’s Health community. Wellsphere is a web community whose network of writers and bloggers includes almost 1,500 of the leading medical professionals from Stanford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and other top medical schools, as well as patients facing difficult diseases who share their stories of survival. Extremely selective in admitting writers into its network, Wellsphere first ensures they are “highly credible, eloquent, and caring.”

“The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation continues to be recognized as a credible source of information that is influencing public knowledge and opinion,” says Executive Director Lisa Martinez RN/JD, “but most importantly, we help women become their own best advocate through our educational resources accessible at our website, www.twshf.org .”

About The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation

TWSHF is an international non-profit organization whose primary mission is to educate the public and health care professionals on women’s sexual health and sexual difficulties, including FSD. The Foundation has numerous resources for the public and healthcare professionals at www.TWSHF.org, such as educational brochures in English, German and Spanish.

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(PRWEB) November 14, 2005

A voting poll survey on the site of http://www.mens-sexual-health.org/voting-polls-to-take/males-masturbation-survey.html
Men’s Sexual Health gives some insight as to the number of times males masturbate in a week

1735 men who took the survey were presented the question: “How many times do you masturbate per week?”

The items they checked off showed in the results as follows:

None ========= 1.9%

Once in awhile=7.7%

1-3 times ==== 26.5%

4-7 times ==== 36.7%

8-15 times === 18.6%

16-21 times == 4%

More than 21 = 4.6%

Masturbation is the deliberate stimulation of one’s own genitals to achieve sexual arousal for sensual pleasure and orgasms. It is executed at least occasionally by a majority of both men and women. In one modern domestic survey study, 95 percent of men and 89 percent of women announced having masturbated. It is the first barefaced self gratification intersexual act for the majority of men and women, although more women than men prosecute in intersexual intercourse before they ever get down masturbating.

Masturbation is natural and harmless expression of sexuality in men and a perfectly good way to experience sexual stimulation and pleasure. In fact, some experts contend that masturbating improves intersexual health by altering an idiosyncratics understanding of his or her personal body and of what is erotically admirable, building self-confidence and fostering self-acceptance.

Contrary to ancient myths, fable and popular beliefs, male masturbating does not:

Lead to unbridled lust

Make you blinded

Make you deaf as a post

Give you the flu

Drive you enthusiastic (only with intersexual pleasure)

Grow hair on your hand

Get a disease (only if hand in contact with partner’s STD semen or vaginal fluids)

Kill you

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New York City, New York (PRWEB) April 16, 2006

The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation (TWSHF), based in Cincinnati, Ohio and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons-Department of Urology will hold their second annual continuing education symposium on Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) and Health April 22, 2006.

“The first one was so successful that Columbia University invited The Foundation to co-sponsor an FSD symposium as a joint annual event,” said Executive Director Lisa A. Martinez, R.N. J.D. “The Foundation is very pleased to have such a working relationship with Columbia and in particular with Dr. Ridwan Shabsigh, urologist and expert in FSD.”

This year’s symposium will have a unique focus. Martinez stated, “We received numerous requests from professionals to help them add the full complement of female sexual health services to their practice because they are hearing from women who want help.” Perhaps this is a new sexual revolution. Women are speaking up.

Healthcare providers will have an opportunity to learn how to set up their own female sexual health clinic—a first. “We will continue to take a multi-disciplinary approach to find the answers to the thousands of questions being raised about women’s sexuality,” adds Martinez, “but we will also center on what will assist the healthcare provider in his or her everyday practice so that the provider can better serve their female patients who are struggling with sexual health problems now .”

The study of Female Sexual Dysfunction is experiencing rapid growth in all areas of diagnosis, epidemiology, pharmacology and treatment. As a result, there is a great need to bring educational information from both the physical and psychological perspective to healthcare providers who traditionally have received little if any training in this area. Female Sexual Dysfunction can include loss of desire, arousal problems, orgasmic difficulties, pain with intercourse and without intercourse, as in the case of Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome and other sexual problems.

Fore more information on the 2006 Female Sexual Dysfunction(FSD) and Health Symposium please go to

http://www.twshf.org/pdf/FSD2006.pdf

or contact

Center for Continuing Medical Education

Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

630 West 168th Street, Unit 39

New York, NY 10032

Telephone: (212) 305-3334

Fax: (212) 781-6047

e-mail: cme@columbia.edu

http://columbiacme.org

The 2006 symposium is supported by generous educational grants from Procter & Gamble, Zestra Laboratories, Inc., Palatin Technologies, Inc., VIVUS, and The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation.

The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation, founded in 2003, is a non-profit international foundation whose primary mission is to educate the public and healthcare providers in the area of sexual health and sexual health difficulties. This foundation is located in Cincinnati, Ohio and is run completely by a volunteer staff and assisted by a professional advisory board, who also donate their time.

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Question by Up Yours: Why are all the questions in “Women’s Health” related to sexual functions?
Yet, women are always complaining that “all men think about is sex”? Here is women’s health, no one is discussing about obesity or cancer, which are two of the most dangerous things to women’s health.

Women will get sun tan and eat until they are fat, then they will blame men for “just wanting sex” and yet all the women here are asking about birth control and their periods???

Best answer:

Answer by *Cara*
I could ask you why all the questions in Men’s Health are about penis size. Obviously that’s all men think about.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) December 12, 2006

The 2007 Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo has tapped leading women’s sexual health expert, Lisa Martinez, RN/JD, and executive director of The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation, to speak about the critical lack of knowledge among women regarding vital sexual health issues. The Expo will be held January 19-20th, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Canada.

The presentation, entitled “Women’s Sexual Health: What No One Tells Us,” will address the number of medical health conditions that impact women’s sexual health, and the critical lack of awareness of this issue among women, their families, partners, and caregivers.

In the lecture, Ms. Martinez will examine the effect of medications, cancer, chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, pelvic surgeries, high blood pressure and other medical conditions on women’s sexual health, “There is a tremendous knowledge gap regarding these well-known medical conditions, and the dramatic impact these illnesses can have on women’s sexual health,” said Ms. Martinez. “The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation is pleased to share this important information with the attendees of the 2007 Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo.”

Not only will attendees learn how these medical conditions affect them, they will receive valuable insight on what they can do to improve sexual functioning, how to speak frankly with their medical care giver about the situation, and a reference list of additional resources.

The 2007 Women’s Health Matters Forum & Expo with an expected attendance of 22,000, and sponsored by the New Women’s College Hospital has been named ” the most important women’s health event of the year,” and will offer attendees a full agenda of valuable information, frank insight, and answers to questions regarding their health. For more information, visit http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/forum/.

For more information about The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation, please visit www.TWSHF.org, or email info @ TWSHF.org .

About The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation

TWSHF is an international non-profit organization whose primary mission is to educate the public and healthcare professionals on women’s sexual health. The Foundation has numerous resources for the public and healthcare professionals at www.TWSHF.org, including educational brochures in English, German, and Spanish and The Women’s Sexual Health Journal for members. The Foundation just completed its second annual Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) and Health Symposium for healthcare professionals and students on April 22, 2006 in New York City in conjunction with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. A Women’s Sexual Health Event: Reclaiming Healthy Intimacy, Passion and Pleasure for the public is being planned for September 18, 2007 in New York City with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. For further information e-mail info @ TWSHF.org.

About The Women’s Sexual Health Journal

The Women’s Sexual Health Journal is an on-line quarterly journal available through The Women’s Sexual Health Foundation. It contains personal stories about women and their sexual health difficulties, and articles on sexual medicine, health, and research topics that receive little attention in medical schools and healthcare providers’ training. For more information about the journal go to www.TWSHF.org.

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University of Oklahoma Education Abroad Office video on Sexual Health while on a study abroad – Part 1

Everybody is exposed to various forms of stress and this is an inevitable fact that we all have to face sometimes in our lives. There are various causes of stress and oftentimes, people would only look on the aspect of staying away from stress causing agents where in fact there is a better way to live through stress and pressure in the form of stress management. Particularly for those who are in the corporate world, these people are often exposed to higher levels of stress especially when there is a pressure to meet deadlines, make important decisions, problems with work colleagues, and other related causes.

But with proper stress management, all these can be avoided or if these things are really unavoidable, you can at least manage not to burden yourself with too much pressure that can significantly affect your general health and worse, your sexual life. Stress management is an approach commonly used by people under great pressures to properly deal with stress caused about by daily life. Good stress management can have significant impact on the sexual health of men because not only will it improve their sexual performance but it can also provide them a whole new outlook about the wonders of sex without thinking much of the things they need to do at work or the debts they have to pay. Stress management is an excellent way to divert one’s attention to something that is less hectic and demanding.

How Stress Management Can Help Us Cope

Stress basically is a combination of past and current events or things that we experience that have negative effects on our emotional as well as psychological being. Stress can also negatively affect our physical health and this includes our outlook towards sex. With good stress management, it allows us to cope up with it without experiencing panic attacks or extreme anxiety that can put our emotional and psychological state into serious conditions. In the past, stress is only attributed to ordinary symptoms such as headaches, sudden fever, over fatigue and bouts of insomnia. But today research shows that it can also have a significant impact on our sexual health especially to men who are commonly exposed to undue stress either at work or at home. To much stress bordering on depression can significantly reduce their sexual appetite which will eventually put their sexual health into serious jeopardy.

How Stress Management Improve Men’s Sexual Health

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