Why is Sexual Wellbeing so important?

 

I face this unspoken question constantly. And then there’s the strange look that people pretend not to give me when I’m in full flow 🙂

People wonder why I am not talking about diabetes or cancer or multiple sclerosis. While these are all worthwhile topics for a doctor to engage his or her time with, I feel I need to make my case for sexual wellbeing. So read on…

• Sexual wellbeing is an essential part of the healthy development of all individual.
  How you feel about your body and what you understand about intimacy can have a bearing on your development.
  It can affect your ability to cultivate, enjoy and maintain respectful relationships.
  It determines your feelings of self worth and esteem.

• The ability to give and receive acts of affection is so integral to human beings.
  We are made to give affection and with our five senses we can do this in various ways.
  A warm smile with a glint in the eye can convey appreciation and lighten the mood.
  A kind word gladdens the ears and heart of the recipient.
  A soft caring touch speaks volumes about love and security.
  A kiss can be so meaningful and what tastes better than a lover’s (clean) tongue 🙂 Lol!
  The fresh smell after a shower can set the stage for great sexual intimacy… throw in some good perfume too!
  When we give affection, we bless the object of our affection and in return we are blessed. ‘Whatever we sow, we reap’ says the Good Book.

• Lives are destroyed when development of sexual wellbeing is distorted.
  A little boy who grows up witnessing his mother being beaten or verbally abused by his father, has a two in three chance of doing the same thing to the women he eventually has a relationship with as an adult.
  A little girl who grows up believing that her self-worth can only be found when she is in bed with a man and therefore hops from man to man ends up disillusioned and the attainment of self esteem seems ever farther away. No wonder depression, anxiety, self harm and other destructive tendencies continue to plague our young girls.
  A man who is enslaved by pornography learns to see women as objects to satisfy his lust and fantasies rather than fellow human beings with feelings. He is unable to develop the skills of relating to real women. No wonder pornography is at the root of countless cases of rape and sexual murder crimes!
  Films that show women being brutally murdered, flogged while tied to posts and other acts of force and violence only serve to desensitize society and turn us all into monsters.

These are just some examples of sexual wellbeing gone wrong.

When sexual wellbeing isn’t achieved, the individual suffers. The family unit suffers. The society suffers.

Dysfunctional individuals make a dysfunctional society!

Let’s start talking sexual wellbeing.

Let’s demystify it. Let our little ones learn in an atmosphere of safety and love.

Let’s clean up our television shows and other forms of popular media.

Let’s pursue sexual wellbeing on all fronts and our society will be all the better for it.