Healthy female sexuality

For long time medicine was concerned only about reproductive health of women. Just lately professional recognized sexual pleasure is important key to whole wellbeing and complete satisfaction, not only of individuals, couples and families, but also for development of social communities and nations.

So sexual life became legitimate health topic and term of sexual health beside reproductive health includes capability of healthy and satisfying sexual functioning through life time. Because sexual pleasure significantly contributes to quality of life, purpose of promotion of sexual health concept is the enhancement of life and personal relations.

Narrow definition of sexual health is that this is the absence of sexual difficulties and personal satisfaction with owns sexual life.

Results of scientific research say that one third of women were facing sexual problems at some time in their life, but even women without difficulties often can be dissatisfied. Not necessarily deeply dissatisfied, but rather with the sense that there sex life could be better.

There can be many reasons for discontent – poor education, unrealistic expectation and negative attitude towards sex, wrong behaviour of sexual partner or just routine in sex life. With everyday stress or relationship problems, it’s no wonder that some women during lives can totally give up the quest for sexual pleasure.

For sexual satisfaction of women equally important are sexual and intimate dimension – quality of relation, as well as frequency of orgasm and sexual contacts. Except emotional context and interpersonal dynamics, sexual satisfaction is influenced by attitudes and values. Attitudes about intimacy and sexual moral are significantly connected with sexual pleasure of women, but not of males.

Factors that influence sexual satisfaction of women are:

• Frequency of sexual contacts and orgasms.
• Sense of relation with partner.
• Satisfaction with quality of relation.
• Partner sexual satisfaction.
• Age as indicator of sexual experience, knowledge of personal preferences and ways to accomplish pleasure, greater relaxation and erotically openness.
• Spats in relation.
• Content with self body image.
• Religious moral.
• Sexual victimization.

Because all this factors – personal, relational as well as social and cultural, influence women satisfaction with sexual life, complete definition of sexual health must include all of this factors as well as respect of sexual rights:

SEXUAL HEALTH is not merely absence of disease or infirmity but rather state of complete physical, mental, social and cultural well being relating to sexuality.
Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence.
Sexual health is evidenced in the free and responsible expressions of sexual capabilities that foster harmonious personal and social wellness, enriching individual and social life.
For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected and fulfilled.

In other words, sexual health is inseparable from:

• Positive attitudes about sexuality and owns body.
• Knowledge about "technologies" of getting pleasure.
• Awareness of sexual risks and how to keep them les possible.
• Capability for having relations based on trust, communications and intimacy.
• And also sexually positive social environment.