Tipps for a healthy sex life

Tips No Couple Should Go Without ¹

1. Liberate your body’s energy and dopamine in a new way
2. Schedule a sex “fact-finding” night
3. Go on a sexy overnight getaway (or not)
4. Have a one-to-one talk to air out seeded stress

Ways to help yourself to a better sex life ²

1. Educate yourself
2. Give yourself time
3. Maintain physical affection
4. Practice touching
5. Do Kegel exercises
6. Try to relax

Sensate focus technique

Sensate focus is a technique used to improve intimacy and communication between partners around sex, reduce sexual performance anxiety, and shift away from ingrained, goal-oriented sexual patterns that may not be serving a couple. ³

1. Non-genital touching
2. Genital touching
3. Adding lotion/lubricant
4. Mutual touching
5. Sensual intercourse

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-sex/improve-sex-life-couples ↩

2. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/11-ways-to-help-yourself-to-a-better-sex-life ↩

3. https://www.smsna.org/patients/did-you-know/what-is-sensate-focus-and-how-does-it-work ↩