Summary
List of Factors that Affect Sexual Function
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Enhancers of Sexual Desire in Women
Enhancers of Sexual Desire in Men
Making Love is Not Only About 'Intercourse'
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FACTORS THAT AFFECT
SEXUAL FUNCTIONING

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MAKING LOVE, NOT ONLY INTERCOURSE

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Making love is not only ‘having sex’ or penetrative intercourse- it is so much more.
In many instances people avoid any intimate contact especially when they are tired or stressed –for fear that ‘it may lead to having sex’ as they do not feel that they will respond fully to orgasm, and thus they miss out on the intimacy of love-making. So if you consider all these factors, it may help to change your attitude by realizing that there are so many positive feelings that can be experienced in love-making.

Making love is not only ‘intercourse’- it includes one or more or all of the following:

1. Holding, hugging kissing
2. Sensual pleasure where one partner is passive or actively guiding
3. Mutual sensual pleasuring
4. Genital stimulation of one or both partners as desired
5. Penetrative sex

This approach allows you to make love so that each partner can gain the maximum erotic pleasure  that he/she desires on each occasion of sexual contact.

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