Is your female dryness destroying your chances for happiness? A new study shows that sexually active seniors are happier, which isn’t really much of a surprise. Sexual activity is a good way to relieve stress and maintain a healthy relationship with a partner. It also prevents vaginal atrophy…and apparently, keeps you happy. But if you’re struggling with female dryness or dyspareunia, painful sex, you have every reason to feel miserable.
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Female dryness and sex
Are seniors really supposed to be sexually active? The topic is regarded as embarrassing, and you can hardly even find it in entertainment because it’s so taboo. Drama stories rarely address it, and comedies couch it in a lot of jokery to make it work. Mature women are supposed to be wise, grandmotherly creatures with grey hair, right?
The truth is, your sex drive doesn’t go away just because you go through menopause. Female dryness is a common symptom of this changing time in your life, and that may reinforce the idea that you’re supposed to stop having sex. But female dryness is merely a natural result of your changing hormone levels, and there are a lot of ways you can manage and overcome the problem. Unless you have a medical condition that forces your physician to advise you against having sexual intercourse, there’s absolutely no reason you should be avoiding it.
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Sex and happiness
A study conducted by the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University shows a direct link between sex and happiness in older couples. Those who participated in the study and reported to having sex once a month defined themselves as “very happy.” Married people who had regular sex defined themselves as happy to the tune of 80 percent, while only 59 percent defined themselves as happy after not having sex for the past year.
And if you think you’re the only one doing it, you’re wrong. A 2007 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that more than 50 percent of people in their 70s and early 80s have sex two or three times a month.
Dyspareunia and dryness
Female dryness can cause dyspareunia, painful sex. When your natural lubrication is lacking, the friction that should cause pleasure becomes agony instead. You can treat this with over-the-counter lubricants, and you can even increase your own water intake in order to increase the moisture level in your body. But one of the most effective ways to avoid dyspareunia, even when it’s not caused by female dryness, is through Kegels and other exercises. Working out the muscles around your vagina prevents atrophy and vaginal thinning that causes pain, and it can also increase your own natural lubrication.
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Over-the-counter lubricants help supply moisture when your body isn’t doing the trick, but you should explore other treatment methods to find a more long-term solution to female dryness and dyspareunia. You may naturally overcome dryness as your body adjusts to the changes of menopause, or it can become an ongoing problem.
Learn more about supplemental moisture in our free special report, 5 Solutions for Painful Sex (Dyspareunia) and Vaginal Dryness in Women over 50.
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