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There is very little scientific study done on Female Sexual Function compared to Male Sexual Function.
Sally Law who writes for livescience Journal
reported research findings of Jessica Burris, researcher from the University of Kentucky.

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Jessica Burris says:

HOW SPIRITUALITY INCREASES SEX IN WOMEN

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“It is possible female young adults yearn for greater connectedness with other humans,” Burris writes. “Spirituality, at least for women, could be considered a risk factor.”

Spiritual practice in women is risk factor, says Jessica Burris, as it is likely to lead to multiple partners and lower inhibition in women.

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For Women:

“Believing one is intimately tied to other human beings and that interconnectedness and harmony are indispensable may lead one to believe sexual intimacy possesses a divine or transcendent quality in itself.

SPIRITUALITY INCREASED SEX IN WOMEN
In fact, ascribing sacred qualities to sex has been positively associated with positive affective reactions to sex, frequency of sex, and number of sexual partners among university students.

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For women, however, spirituality was the strongest predictor for the number of sexual partners, the frequency of sex, and the tendency to have sex without a condom.

A separate review of studies last year found that sexually unsatisfied women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better orgasms.

HOW WAS RESEARCH DONE

The study’s participants indeed were university students; 353 undergraduates (61 percent of whom were female) answered a questionnaire that asked them about their alcohol use, impulsivity, religiousness, spirituality, and sexual practices. The statements on spirituality, which were ranked by level of agreement, included “In the quiet of my prayers and/or meditations, I find a sense of wholeness,” and “Although individual people may be difficult, I feel an emotional bond with all of humanity.”

HOW SPIRITUALITY DECREASES SEX IN MEN

The study found that spiritual men weren’t sexually affected — in fact, their frequency of sex decreased. The researchers figure men might not view spirituality as sexual because they biologically don’t think of sex as a gateway to emotional intimacy.
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RELIGION ~ SPIRITUALITY

“I think people have been well aware of the role that religious and spiritual matters play in everyday life for a very long time,” said Jessica Burris, one of the study’s researchers at the University of Kentucky. “But in the research literature, the unique qualities of spirituality — apart from religiousness — are not usually considered.”

SPIRITUALITY ~
PERSONALITY ~ RELIGION

“Research suggests that spirituality provides predictive utility over and above personality traits such as conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness. So while it may be the case that spirituality is correlated with other variables that show similar relationships with human sexuality and sexual practices (such as openness to experiences), the relationship we observed, in my opinion, cannot simply be explained away by other variables.”
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SPIRITUALITY DEFINED

According to a research measure known as the Spiritual Transcendence Scale, those qualities are connectedness, universality and prayer fulfillment. But the data found that of the three, connectedness plays the largest role in spiritual sexuality and leads to more sex with more partners, often without the use of condoms.

Sally Law summarizes,
“Women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better orgasms.”
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RESEARCHERS

Researchers with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Science

Jessica Burris,
Research Investigator may be contacted 859-257-4547. See

http://www.mc.uky.edu/research/Adobe%20Flyers/BEHAV-054_flyer.pdf

http://www.mc.uky.edu/research/clinicaltrials.htm

Sally Law has written about health and sexuality for the Cleveland Clinic, and has appeared regularly as a guest host on Sirius Radio. Her column, The Science of Sex, appears weekly on LiveScience.
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