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Obese women have four times as many unplanned pregnancies as healthy-weight women despite having less sex, and obese men are more likely to have sexual diseases despite fewer partners, scientists said on Wednesday.
Obese have worse sexual health despite less sex
Seeded on Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:51 AM EDT
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In a study showing how obesity can harm sexual health, French and British researchers also found that obese women are less likely to ask for contraceptive advice or use the pill, and obese men are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction.
"In public health terms, the study lends a new slant to a familiar message: that obesity can harm not only health and longevity, but your sex life," Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, a specialist in psychosexual medicine at Britain's Ipswich Hospital, wrote in an editorial on the study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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#1 - Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:52 AM EDT"obese men are more likely to have sexual diseases despite fewer partners"-
could that have anything to do with low self-esteem and rather paying for services rendered rather than establishing relationships?
#4 - Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:55 AM EDTGood thought. It could also mean that he's less likely to have a condom along when he gets a chance to have sex, but he takes the risk anyway.
I was also thinking that obese women might be less likely to seek medical help for birth control because of embarrassment over their weight. To get birth control, a woman must undergo a complete ob/gyn exam, which means she has to disrobe.
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