Sedentary Life Style: Welcome Sex Problems with Open Hands
Deepak Arora
Member: American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists.
Modern lifestyle or precisely we can call it sedentary lifestyle has already made way for several health problems. While problems like cervical, back and neck pain, diabetes, blood pressure, cancer, heart ailments etc are some of the most common, sex problems are also on a continuous rise due to this lethargic way of living.
The sedentary lifestyle that most young couples live has restricted their physical movement to almost nil and thus making them so sluggish that they just don’t feel like performing the sexual act with much enthusiasm. As a result, they welcome sex problems like erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation.
This so called modern lifestyle consists of factors like their seating postures, dependence on drugs, alcohol intake and smoking habits. Combined together, all these lifestyle practices affect their body and most importantly their sex drive. Due to declining sex drive and rising sex problems, they are unable to satisfy their partner in bed and this can even have an adverse effect on their marital relationship.
The main reason behind this sedentary lifestyle and subsequent sex problems is the working conditions. Young professionals usually spend most of their hours at workplace either sitting or doing least amount of legwork and thus they end up making way of sex problems.
Here are some easy clues to let you know if you are also a victim of this sedentary lifestyle. Take a note of these and make sure you do not let them hinder your sexual pleasure….
1. Seating stress: If you continue to sit in one posture throughout the day, you end up taking undue strain on your back. Either your position gets too erected or it bends a little too much. This may put you at a risk of having some spine troubles, which would further cause sex problems. As spine muscles are used to a large extent while having sex, such a lifestyle would never allow you to enjoy an interrupted pleasure. Those who suffer from such spinal and back problems would, in most cases, end up getting up in between the sexual act and hence leaving their partner unsatisfied in bed.
2. Exercise exertion: It’s believed that walking few minutes and leading an active lifestyle keep exercising our sexual and pelvic muscles. But if you are among those lazy souls who are always happy on their chairs, you would not let your sexual muscles exercise in a desired routine way. Hence you may face sexual problems like infertility or impotency, as sexual organs tend to get heated up or become idle also. It has been medically proved that there has to be a proper exercise routine not only for your body but for your sexual organs too, so if you don’t pay heed to such workouts, you can never be happy sexually.
3. Thinking tension: With continuous concentration on your work and other career related anxieties, your mind also remains inactive for a long period. With such diverted mind, your sexual senses fail to get aroused easily and thus you do not feel emotionally and physically attached to your partner. Also, when you cannot focus on your sexual performance, sex problem like erectile dysfunction (not getting proper erection) is sure to harm you. Hence it is suggested that even if you lead a sedentary way of life, where you don’t get to move much, at least let your mind be active, so that you can get aroused for sex at once.
4. Physical pressure: As you remain deskbound and do not get involved in much of moving here and there, your lower body, especially legs become very slothful and you would find it tough taking any pressure while sexual act as well. In such cases, you fail to experiment much with sex positions, as you cannot move your leg freely fearing some pain or strain and thus sexual problems like premature ejaculation can ruin your sexual performance. Due to this sedentary lifestyle, you keep sitting on the chair most of the hours during the day and this leads to a low physical stamina, which shows its adverse effects while you are performing sex.
5. Weighty woes: Weight gain is the foremost consequence of living a sedentary lifestyle. As you remain inactive for more than required time, you tend to out on extra weight and even become obese in extreme cases. Under such circumstances, you are more prone to developing sex problems and an overweight person anyways also finds it uncomfortable to perform in bed with ease. Imagine with your weight troubling you already, you would never want to bear that additional weight of your partner, so your sexual relationship can go for a toss.
6. Bad blood circulation: Do not forget that more you walk and get yourself involved in physical activities, better would be your blood flow in the body. But as modern individuals have to cope up with their professional and academic preferences, they get very less time to focus on any outdoor activities and they don’t indulge much in legwork. As a result, there is a lack of blood circulation in the entire body. Even the blood that is circulated to the sex organs is not proper, hence chances are high that you face problems while erection or intercourse.
7. Cardiac crisis: Lack of physical stamina leads to lack of blood circulation, which further leads to cardiac problems and they can in turn make way for several sex problems and vice versa. So this is a vicious cycle and the ignition point for all these problems is your lifestyle, which is less of moving and more of lazy. Also, you often fail to understand the reasons behind sudden heart problems, minor heart attacks and chest pains but it’s important you should know that it’s your sluggish lifestyle which is leading to all these cardiac problems.
Therefore, we suggest you immediately change your lifestyle pattern and yet if you are unable to cope with the situation, consulting a sex specialist is the best possible way out. Not only they would guide you on how to overcome these lifestyle problems but would also tell you how to keep sex problems at bay.
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