RE: Digest Number 2440

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aelliott60wrote:

" and although i do NOT discount the uterus as part of the sexual functioning

of women (i always believed it was more than a " baby house " , which is why i

hung on to it for so long!) i also believe that (for me, at least) a big

portion of how i would do following was based in part on my mind and

how i perceived i would " do " (i.e., would I be orgasmic or not) and hearing

positive stories definitely impacted my perspective at the time of sexual

interaction.

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Aelliott, I partially agree with you on the issue of postive expectations

influencing your experience of sex following hsyterectomy. I think that a

woman anticipating a poor outcome who actually had a very good physical

outcome, meaning minimal nerve and blood vessel damage, can prevent herself

from reaching her full sexual potential following the hysterectomy through

her expectations.

However, if the was significant neve damage which will prevent the nerve

impulses from travelling to the brain, or blood vessel damage that prevents

the sexual organs from engorging fully, I don't think all the positive

thinking in the world will help that woman to a satisfying sexual

experience. Psychology can't overcome physiology.

Doctors have been feeding women the idea that sex is all in the head for

women for too many decades -- because in the past, they simply didn't know

what impacted a woman's sexual performance but today, while we still don't

everything about the physiology of women's sexual experience, these doctors

simply haven't bothered to stay up to date on what has been found out about

sex and women.

Leonie

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