Zheeendy Reading Task

Reading Task

: Sendy Halim Toana

Class

: IIb

GOOD SEX IS GOOD FOR YOU! By Anthony Fiore, Ph.D. "Life without love is like a coconut in which the milk is dried up." Henry David Thoreau

"Good sex....Improves our health and may even contribute to our longevity." First of all scientific evidence is accumulating support what many of us have suspected all along: good sex not only adds great enjoyment to our lives, but it also actually improves our health and may even contribute to our longevity. In a new book called Sexual Healing, Dr. Paul Pearsall, Director of Behavioral Medicine at Detroit's Beaumont Hospital, writes that the joys and pleasures of living life and loving may provide us with something called an "intimacy inoculation" that actually protects us from disease. Dr. Pearsall, who cites numerous other researchers, concludes, "Growing numbers of physicians now recognize that the health of the human heart depends not only on such factors as genetics, diet, and exercise, but also --to a large extent-- on the social and emotional health of the individual." Sexual healing is achieved primarily through the daily challenge of maintaining a close, intimate relationship which, when accomplished, leads to balance between our health and healing systems. Can lack of sexual intimacy create a risk factor for certain diseases? Since then, Dr. Pearsall cites

research and his own clinical experience indicating that sexual dissatisfaction seems to be prevalent prior to a heart attack in a high percentage of persons. Conversely, sexual contentment appears related to less severe migraine headaches, fewer and less-severe symptoms of premenstrual syndrome for women, and a reduction in symptoms related to chronic arthritis for both genders. Although the exact biological mechanisms are not yet identified, many researchers are investigating how our thoughts, feelings, brain, immune system and sexual/genital system interact, influence each other, and affect our health. Also there may be an actual biological drive toward closeness, intimacy, and being connected to other human beings. When we experience intimate, mutually caring sexual intimacy, we may experience a measurable change in neurochemicals and hormones that pour through the body and help promote health and healing.

"Hormones that pour through the body help promote health and healing." In contrast to does this mean that to live longer or be more healthy we just need to DO IT more often or better? Of course not! Sex is a much broader concept that genital connecting or having an orgasm. Psychologist and author Gina Ogden, Ph.D. notes in her book, "Women Who Love Sex", that sex has everything to do with openness, connection to and bonding with a partner, feelings about what is happening to us, and memories. For those who love it, sex permeates their lives and is not merely a specialized, time-intensive, physical activity that takes place under the covers--as quickly as possible. As a result of interviewing many women, Dr. Ogden learned that sexual desire, or lust, was produced by much more than physical stimulation. For women, according to Dr.Ogden, it has more to do with feelings of connectedness in their relationships: "Heart to heart, soul to soul, even mind to mind."

"Fortunately, anyone can...restore closeness, intimacy, and sexual flow."

For those reason older men were usually also socialized to be strong and self-reliant, which usually means one doesn't easily talk about or admit personal problems. Many such men do not acknowledge worries and fears to their partners; they simply try to handle everything on their own. A consequence of such reticence is 1. lack of intimacy in the relationship, with the wife feeling "left out" of her husband's life; and 2. men often don't get what they need because they don't know how to ask for it, so they feel distanced and frustrated when they really want closeness and intimacy as much as their partner does.

I. Topics sentences in all paragraph 1 good sex not only adds great enjoyment to our lives, but it also actually improves our health and may even contribute to our longevity. 2 In paragraph 2 explain abaout pleasures of living life and loving may provide us with something called an "intimacy inoculation" that actually protects us from disease. 3 concludes, "Growing numbers of physicians now recognize that the health of the human heart depends not only on such factors as genetics, diet, and exercise, but also --to a large extent-- on the social and emotional health of the individual." 4 Witht sex you can measurable change in neurochemicals and hormones that pour through the body and help promote health and healing. 5 With Hormones that pour through the body help promote health and healing and woman was produced by much more than physical stimulation

6 So the old men Many such men do not acknowledge worries and fears to their partners; they simply try to handle everything on their own.

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"Good sex....Improves our health and may even contribute to our longevity."

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