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Masturbation is a natural sexual practice. In fact, May is known as National Masturbation Month. Still, many are raised believing certain myths about masturbation said About.com. Here’s a look at the truth. Myth #1: Masturbation is for the young. Masturbation is a lifelong sexual activity. About.com reported surveys regularly show 70 to 95 percent of adult men and women masturbate. Myth #2: Masturbation causes blindness, acne, hair loss, chronic fatigue, hairy palms or cancer.  Not true. In fact, doctors say masturbation has medical benefits, wrote Seventeen.com. It can relieve stress, insomnia, headaches, PMS and menstrual cramps. Myth #3: Masturbation isn't real sex. When people masturbate, they can get really aroused, which can result in very real orgasms, said About.com. From a health perspective, masturbation is as “real” a sexual activity as intercourse, oral sex or kissing. Myth #4: People in relationships don’t masturbate.  WebMD reported people in r...

Feel like you've been looking for love in all the wrong places? Head for a yoga class, because another benefit of this ancient exercise has just come to light: Yoga can improve your love life. Ladies, start smiling. You'll see results fast. After just 12 weeks of practicing yoga, you'll enjoy more sexual desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction. Over 45? You'll feel the boost even more than the "kids" in your class (who cares if they're better at Downward Facing Dog?). Good for Guys, Too Men, yoga will deliver in spades for you, too. Twelve weeks is all it should take for you to see marked improvements in desire, satisfaction, performance, confidence, partner synchronization, erection, ejaculatory control, and orgasm. Whew! That's not all. Yoga can be even more effective than a top drug (fluoxetine) in treating premature ejaculation. What Makes Yoga Such an Aphrodisiac? The combo of stretching, toning, and deep breath...

  The world is full of numbers, and full of sex for that matter. When it comes to intimacy, it’s generally all about the facts of life, not facts and figures (apart from the naked kind!). So you may be surprised to find out the following sex statistics as often these matters don’t make it out of the bedroom. We’ve peeled the sheets on 10 of the most surprising sex figures. What’s your number? According to a Durex survey, men across the globe have had an average of 13 sexual partners throughout their lifetime, while women have had seven. Guys and girls often shy away from honesty when it comes to discussing their number; too low and they fear embarrassment, too high and they face being judged. But there’s never going to be a happy medium, as a Cosmopolitan survey found. According to the survey just 66 per cent of people are content with their ‘number’, while 22 per cent wish they’d slept with less people and 12 per cent would have liked to have slept with more. Pop...

Sex stamina advice for men Sex isn’t just about self-satisfaction. In fact, if you really want to score high in the sack, it’s essential you build up your sexual stamina to last the distance and keep your other-half happy. Thankfully, a number of simple tips could help you on your way to a more fulfilling sex life. By following certain routines and adopting a few easy exercises, you’ll soon have the ladies queuing up around the block ... and improve your fitness in the process! Staying fit and healthy for better sex Sex may appear simple enough to master (unless you’re an inexperienced teenager or 40-year-old virgin fumbling around in the dark, that is). However, if you really want to boost the potency of your passion, it might be time you tried some of the following techniques ... * Working out groin muscles — If you often find yourself hobbling around with muscle pain the morning after a steamy night of passion, it might be useful to regularly stretch your gro...

As anyone who's ever failed to make it past the first month's attendance on an annual gym membership knows, actually fitting a regular workout into your daily routine is easier said than done. But there is one form of exercise that, done right, you're guaranteed to want to make time for. That's right, ladies, sex isn't only about pleasure; with a little energy and imagination it can provide a great workout too. The naked truth A good session in the sack burns approximately 150 calories for every 30 minutes you indulge – better than a yoga class (at approximately 115 calories) and the equivalent to a brisk half-hour walk. And it's not just the nitty-gritty of sex itself – snogging alone burns between 60-90 calories in the same timeframe (depending on just how 'French' your kissing gets), while a vigorous half hour of oral sex can add another 120 calories to your sexercise total. Indeed, according to the Kinsey Institute the average human lo...

Study Shows Exercise Associated With Better Sexual Functioning in Men Men seeking to improve their performance in bed might want to give exercise a shot. Men who exercised had substantially higher scores on a sexual-function questionnaire than men who were sedentary, researchers report. Looked at another way, men who were moderately active -- walking briskly just 30 minutes a day, four days a week, or the equivalent -- were about two-thirds less likely to have sexual dysfunction than their sedentary counterparts, says Erin McNamara, MD, of Duke University Medical Center. "If men won't exercise for their cardiovascular health, maybe they will for their sexual function," she tells WebMD. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. Exercise, Sex, and Healthy Men While several studies have shown that exercise may help improve sexual function in obese men, very few have looked at the relationship between exerc...

Majority of Men Report Being Sexually Active After Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer A highly targeted form of radiation therapy may help younger men to avoid becoming impotent after treatment for prostate cancer, a preliminary study of nearly 100 men aged 55 and younger suggests. Six months after undergoing proton therapy, 90% of participants who had been sexually active before treatment remained sexually active. By 12 and 18 months after the treatment, 95%, and 94% of treated men were sexually active, reports Bradford Hoppe, MD, of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville, and colleagues. A year-and-a-half after treatment, proton therapy was also associated with an extremely low rate of recurrence and a low risk of side effects, the researchers say. Still unknown, however, is whether these benefits justify the much higher price tag of proton therapy, compared with other treatments for prostate cancer, says Harvard Medical School's A...