He is Impotent, She is Frigid

This is not a good combination for a husband and wife but it is happening. A man may be impotent for so many reasons. Having no erection may be due to a small or deformed male sex organ or his sexual desires is crippled by disease like diabetes or some doctors said it can also be a disorder of the spinal cord.

Emotional factors can also contribute to the condition; impotence can also stem from a deep-rooted psychological problem which could have started from childhood fixations, other forms of neurosis, and nervous tension. If there are other reasons of impotence aside from symptoms of diabetes, it can be corrected by surgery, psychotherapy, or by taking vitamins. For those who have diabetes – proper nutrition, well-balanced meal, and exercise will help.

On the part of women, like impotence – frigidity is often the result of psychological factors that also could have started in childhood days. The condition may manifest itself in many different and several ways. There are women who do not have any sexual urge for reason or another while others have very strong desire but find little satisfaction from the act itself. Frightening sex experiences can contribute to frigidity. There are cases in which strong religious value without realizing that sex is a part of the obligation of wife to her husband, and that it is also a part of the divine plan – it then developed an indifferent attitude towards sex.

Ignorance about sex, inadequate, and improper education may also result to unwarranted fear of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood. Women who experience these therefore consider sex as an unpleasant marital obligation. If a woman is taught from childhood that sex is sinful and shameful – she would grow up with this idea in her mind, which will lead later in life to marital problems and will cripple her own sexual appetite. If sex is being enjoyed by people outside marriage, more so by husband and wife – it is a wonderful gift from God. Couples who continue to have sex especially up until their latter years are apt to maintain healthier conditions.

These conditions do not mean that sex cannot be enjoyed by people experiencing it. There are remedies or ways to deal with this. If both are willing then sex is ultra possible throughout the years. In fact there are reports that men who have active sex life lives up to 90 years old and so with women. Reports even documented that there are few males who have produced children at age 97 while there are women as old as 57 have delivered normal babies. But for elderly couples whose enthusiasm for sex has not diminished, time will come that nature will remind them of the limits in their bodies and eventually they will receive warning signs.