Homeopathy was pioneered over 200 years ago. Practitioners and patients are convinced it has the power to heal. Today, some of the most famous and influential people in the world, including pop stars, politicians, footballers and even Prince Charles, all use homeopathic remedies.

DEFINITION OF SEXUAL HEALTH

Sexual health is the integration of the somatic, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of sexual being, in ways that are positively enriching and that enhance personality, communication, and love.

Every person has a right to receive sexual information and to consider accepting sexual relationships for pleasure as well as for procreation.

2. There is a need to change the existing attitudes towards human sexuality among the general public, as well as among health and other personnel who are responsible for sex education and sex counselling.

3. Any effort to improve the local situation as regards problems related to human sexuality must be adapted to suit the local culture and conditions and must be accomplished by indigenous health and other personnel.

4. In most parts of the world there is a need for survey and epidemiological data on social attitudes and practices related to sexuality. There is also a need to assess the related health problems in order to plan teaching and therapy programmes. Information of both types should be used in formulating programmes of education and training in human sexuality.

5. Family planning programmes should pay adequate attention to sexual behaviour and to sexual problems and needs. While family planning usually provides a suitable context in which to introduce training and services for sexual health, in certain situations where family planning is regarded as being exclusively concerned with birth control, sexuality programmes could also be developed outside this settings. ( WHO )

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COMMON SEX PROBLEMS & HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

Though there are no specifics in homeopathy, as all the cases are studied with detailed history of the patient, yet we are providing the major symptoms for few commonly used homeopathic remedies, in sexual problems.

PICRIC ACID- For initial stages of sexual debility.

ONOSMODIUM VIR- For fully developed consequences of sexual abuse.

TITANIUM- Sexual weakness & too early ejaculation of semen.

KALI PHOS- Nervousness due to excesses .

RAPHANUS SAT- Aversion toward sex in women.

Conteraceptive pills & your libido

New York (IANS) Women who use contraceptive pills may lose their sex drive up to a year after they stop taking it, says a study.

Loss of libido, muted or non-existent orgasms and painful intercourse have long been known as side effects of the pill. A previous research had, however, suggested a woman's sex drive could return to normal within four weeks of discontinuation.

But the seven years study by researchers led by Dr Claudia Panzer, an endocrinologist in Denver, Colorado shows that a chemical produced by the pill to stop ovulation continues to suppress testosterone levels - central to desire in men and women - for up to a year after women stop taking it, reported the online edition of The Sunday Times.

Women on the pill had four times the level of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which stops testosterone from circulating in the body, as those who had never taken the pill, it said.

The research published this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine was based on 124 pre-menopausal women attending a clinic for sexual dysfunctions.

Half the women had used the pill, 39 had stopped using it and 23 had never taken it. Scientists measured their SHBG levels every three months for a year.

"It is important for physicians prescribing oral contraceptives to point out to patients the potential sexual side effects," Panzer said.

However a spokeswoman for Britain's Family Planning Association urged caution in interpreting the findings. "It is difficult to quantify what a person's sex drive is," she said.

She added: "It may be influenced by a range of lifestyle factors. Whether you are stressed, what you have eaten or how much you have drunk can all affect your sex drive.

"Whether you have children and what ages they are can also have an effect. Our problem is that none of these factors was quantified in this research."

SEXUAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

The list of the most common sexual problems:

(a) Problems related to infection: not only sexually transmitted diseases but such problems as vaginitis and cystitis,
which may cause a variety of sexual difficulties.

(b) Problems related to the life-cycle: those sexual problems that occur in conjunction with pregnancy, childbirth, and
the postpartum period, those associated with the menstrual cycle, etc.

(c) Problems related to a changing technology: e.g., use of condoms, hormonal contraception, of IUDs, when
breakthrough bleeding may be a problem.

(d) Problems that are related to sociocultural factors, including legal and economic factors.

The main sexual problems have also been categorized by age group as follows:

Infants and young children: educators' and parents' reactions to infantile sexuality and masturbation; children's questions; privacy problems for intimacy between parents.

Latency period: sexual curiosity, sexual games.

Puberty and adolescence: masturbation; sexual experimentation with partners; feelings of loneliness, physical and emotional inadequacy.

Unmarried adults: sexual needs; difficulties in finding a partner; feelings of loneliness and inferiority; love affairs without a future; unwanted pregnancy and wishful exposure to unwanted pregnancy.

Couples: sexual problems dependent on duration of marriage: (I) problems of initial adaptation; (II) alienation, divorce; (III) temtations and extramarital relationships, infidelty, jealousy; (IV) problems of middle and old age, quantitative differences.

Divorcees, widows, and widowers: problems largely similar to those of unmarried adults.

In addition to the problems grouped above there are some that are specific to men or women and are less related to age, such as sexually transmitted disease.

While most of the therapy programmes are concerned with the more specific psychotherapeutic approaches to sexual (erotic and copulatory) dysfunctions, it is recognized that the care of sexual problems encompasses a much broader field, including the gynaecological and psychosomatic aspects, therapy for endocrine dysfunction, and the use of drugs for infectious and other medical conditions relevant to sexual health. The consideration of genetic and endocrine factors is important in relation to both therapeutic intervention and training of health personnel, and special attention should be given to a better understanding of childhood sexuality.