Rory,
Perhaps you ought to offer your services where they are really needed.
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Marriage, kids, career hits female sex drive-survey
Sep 29 3:09 AM US/Eastern, Reuters
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - The sex drive of women plummets sharply as they
juggle the increasing demands of partners, children and careers,
researchers said on Thursday.
One in 10 women questioned for a survey admitted losing interest in
sex for at least six months in the past year.
"The next major problem was the inability to have an orgasm. That was
reported by four percent of women," said Dr Catherine Mercer of
University College London after a British study was made of over
11,000 men and women aged 16-44.
Married women were shown to be much more likely than single men or
women to have sexual problems.
The survey showed that both sexes tend to suffer in silence when faced
with sexual problems like lack of sex drive, premature ejaculation or
erectile dysfunction.
Fifty-four percent of women and 35 percent of men have problems but
fewer than 11 percent of men and 21 percent of women seek help,
according to the survey published in the journal Sexually Transmitted
Infections.
For both men and women, their first sexual encounter could be crucial
to their future attitude to sex. The worse the experience, the more
difficulty they may have in later life.
Couples had sex on average four times a month and Mercer told Reuters:
"People who had less than this were more likely to report sexual
problems both short and long-term."
"Within a relationship, those less able to talk freely had more
problems," she said, insisting that the findings had important
implications for sex education and counseling services.
But the sex drive of women dropped sharply from those first heady
months when they fell in love.
"Women were more likely to report problems if they had kids in the
house under the age of five. That of course seems quite logical with
the lack of sleep they are suffering," Mercer said.
The findings for men were in stark contrast.
"As Dr John Gray said, men really are from Mars and women from Venus,"
said Dr David Goldmeier from the sexual function clinic at St Mary's
Hospital in London,
"Women want to hear, they want to tell you about their day. When men
sit down and hear about the woman's exhaustion this is as likely as
anything else to lead to sex," he told Reuters.
"There is nothing actually wrong with these women. Bringing up a
family they are just tired and exhausted as opposed to the men who
have 10 times the level of testosterone," he said.
"A lot of women are very active sexually in the first 18 months to
three years of a relationship and have a lot of spontaneous sexual
desire. But then that goes."
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