Can sex save our return?

End of abundance, end of the bamboo: we are not well, in 2022? Fresh (between two heat waves), relaxed with collapse (will you have an aperitif between two new overwhelming)? Well, let’s look in front: this start of the school year is completely rotten. So very well, let’s seek solutions at hand: could sexuality comfort us?

At first glance, we could say that yes: the hormonal cocktail provided by pleasure and connection to the other fact (generally) an office of natural antidepressant. A good orgasm, a new lover, or even a big hug, all that can hold us emotionally. Should we therefore go to bed as we go to the shrink, use kama-sutra as a psychotropic, and as long as to do, claim social security the reimbursement of our sextoys? It’s not that simple.

To start, you have to ask the question in the right direction, that is to say … in all directions. Sexuality can cheer us up, but a morale at half mast can demolish our sexuality – starting with our libido. It is not enough to throw yourself on our partner (or on our sextoy) to get better: it would be a form of instrumentalization, which would reduce our erotic life to medicalization. And frankly, you can imagine that if it was enough to touch a clitoris or a penis to forget all your problems, you would be aware.

motivations

Furthermore, if the consoling virtues of sex were obvious, it would be seen in statistical surveys. That’s good, we have figures on this: the University of Texas has looked in detail about the reasons why people make love. Their panel of participants brought in 237 different motivations … among which we find, indeed, the sign of a therapeutic use of the Galipettes – but to be taken with tweezers.

The answer “I thought that sex would relax me” arrives in 32 e position of our sexual goals, followed by “I needed to free myself from my tensions” in 40 E position, “I wanted to get rid of my stress and/or my anxiety” in 42 e position, and “I was frustrated and I needed relief” in 46 e position. Conclusion: Yes, we can use sex to ensure our mental balance, but clearly, this motivation remains incidental. In addition, this study from Texas dates from 2007: another era, another world. The same survey, carried out in 2022, would undoubtedly reveal more contemporary anxieties (with answers like “there was no more heating” or “sex is not subject to inflation”).

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