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Sexuality: The Importance of Sexuality

Sexuality is one of the most important areas of Relationship Power. The partners’ Sexual expression allows the Relationship to deepen.  Sexual interaction allows strong bonds to form between the participants.

As important as healthy Sexuality is to the success of a Relationship, it is — significantly enough — the area in many Relationships that is least talked about.  Many adults have difficulty discussing Sexual ideas — they stumble over communication of likes and dislikes, not to mention areas of possible Sexual dysfunction.

This difficulty in discussing Sexuality often stems from childhood-to-adolescent programming.  Many who have difficulty with Sex Talk were raised in a family where there was no talk about Sexual topics.  By default, this left the child-turned-adult with the belief that it was avoided in their family home specifically because it is NOT all right …

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Sexual Rights

The Declaration of Sexual Rights was adopted in the summer 1999 at the 14th World Congress of Sexology. This declaration stated the following about sexuality:

“Sexuality is an integral part of the personality of every human being. Its full development depends upon the satisfaction of basic human needs such as the desire for contact, intimacy, emotional expression, pleasure, tenderness and love. Since health is a fundamental human right, so must sexual health be a basic human right. In order to assure that human beings and societies develop healthy sexuality, the following sexual rights must be recognized, promoted, respected and defended by all societies through all means.”

With this as the basis of its presentation, the participants in the 14th World Congress of Sexuality determined eleven (11) basic Sexual Rights. These eleven fundamental Sexual Rights are listed below.  As you read them, I want you to ask yourself, “How can this Right HELP me to improve my sexual health and satisfaction?  Write down any ideas or questions that come to mind as you read:

1.  The right to sexual freedom. Sexual freedom encompasses …

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Sexual Intimacy: Using Kegel Exercises to Strengthen PC Muscle for Sexual Intimacy!

Kegels Exercises are the rhythmic clenching and unclenching of the pubococcygeal (PC) muscles, also known as the “pelvic floor”.  The pelvic floor is an internal sling of muscles, which stretch from your pubic bone to your tailbone.  It also encircles the urinary opening, the anus, the perineum and the vaginal opening.  The PC muscles control much of the activity in the lower half of your body.

Kegel Exercises are named after gynecologist/obstetrician Arnold Kegel, M.D., who developed them as a treatment for urinary incontinence in women.  Once used for this purpose, they became popular for post-childbirth and enhanced sexual pleasure.

Having stronger pelvic-floor musculature means better sexual …