Can't get no satisfaction? - Shape Your Life

Focusing on the emotional, not the physical, part of your relationship can help you enjoy your sex life more, researchers from Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction found. In a survey of 853 women ages 20-65 who were in relationships, physical indicators such as sexual arousal, vaginal lubrication and orgasm did not predict sexual satisfaction.

The most sexually satisfied women were happiest with their emotional state and their relationship with their partner. Just 24 percent of the women said they weren't sexually satisfied, compared to 43 percent of women in previous studies conducted by other researchers. So why did this study find significantly fewer dissatisfied women? Earlier research defined satisfaction in male terms, says study leader John Bancroft, M.D.

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