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How else can you satisfy sexual hunger?

There are any number of opportunities for people of both sexes to experience sexual hunger - a lingering headache, for example, or the unexpected departure of a boyfriend with a summons and things to a recruiting station. The phenomenon is unpleasant: at first you are drawn to talk “about this”, then to the museum to look at naked Romans, then you imagine God knows what. Here are some ways to cope with forced abstinence.

1. Work, work and work again
There is always a place for hard work in life: most people, dissatisfied with the state of affairs in sex, turn to work. Many remain in it, earning not only their bread and butter, but also workaholism, and also the notorious manager’s syndrome - this is when you already have a sexual partner, but there is no desire. (To the doctor, to the doctor!..) Within reasonable limits, work as a way to distract from thoughts about sex is quite suitable - a person has a worthy goal for realizing his own “I”.

2. Shopping!
Psychologists say that shopping is a kind of erotic act with elements of tactility (the consultant adjusted your nightie), verbality (very sexy saleswomen looked at you with greedy glances), etc. Remember the Rondo commercial about the fitting room and the girl in boots? It’s unlikely that the girl has problems with sex, but it’s a clear example. Among the disadvantages are material costs and the possibility of going broke after getting involved.

3. Hobby.
Not only Irish dancing
There is no need to smile skeptically: for those for whom unfulfilled desires do not allow them to live in peace, it is good to acquire a hobby. It doesn’t matter what - learn Chinese, take a photography course, sign up for an Irish dancing club. This is the most fruitful way to sublimate sexual energy and at the same time unload emotionally.

4. Virtual - new technologies
The method is relatively new and therefore fashionable - to have virtual sex. True, it is not accessible to everyone: we are still far from mass computerization of the population. Sex on the Internet is anonymous and does not oblige you to anything, problems like “slept and didn’t call” do not arise - the virtual partner does not know who you really are, what you look like or what size your wallet is. The bad thing is that it can all end in Internet addiction.

5. Porn is not shameful.
As a one-time measure, watching a porn film is quite suitable and will relieve physical stress, but this method is unreliable - having watched enough of other people’s pleasures in the next dream, you can provide yourself with a problem for the whole night. This method is inferior to virtual sex: there is a chance that a virtual partner will someday become real, but who will go real from a porn film?

6. Hard in labor - easy in the pelvis
You can do heavy physical labor - it helps a lot! Energy costs are colossal; in this case, the body “turns off” all other needs, including sexual ones. If the topic of sex in the barracks had not been discussed all their free time, the soldiers would have suffered much less from abstinence - thanks to their outfits, duty and other exhausting activities on the parade ground and beyond. Suitable options include: chopping wood in the country, washing floors by hand, gluing wallpaper, whitewashing ceilings, general cleaning with elements of laundry, and other hard work.

7. Oh sport, you are sex!
Another effective way to relieve sexual tension is sports. Which one doesn’t matter: it’s a barbell, an exercise bike or checkers - you have to choose according to your strength and according to your medical card. In the gym you can not only relieve stress, but also get rid of the very physical consequences of abstinence - muscle tension in men and congestion in the pelvic area in women. True, sometimes it comes to the point of absurdity: recently, men, carried away by exercise equipment, have begun to forget about their wives and sex, so that, God forbid, they do not waste their energy on something else other than pumping up muscles - in the West this phenomenon is called bigorexia and they are very worried.

8. You can babysit children
Oddly enough, in a state of forced abstinence, it’s good to start taking care of someone - it’s useful to simply switch your attention to a living being. A striking example is domestic animals, loved by old maids. For example, psychologists sometimes advise women to take up raising children (someone else’s children are even better than their own) - this will relieve them emotionally and, as a result, relieve physical stress. A very worthy way.

9 1/2. Masturbation: simple but dangerous
A one-time method similar to a porn session - as a rule, they usually complement each other. It is widely known and used: masturbation is practiced by about 95 percent of men and 30-60 percent of women (the range in numbers is because the weaker sex is cunning and shy). The method is good when abstinence is temporary - the wife, say, is stuck on a business trip, but it is bad because it easily drags on if abused. Being fixated on masturbation, a person loses the opportunity to find a real partner - he simply gets used to being content with little.


By the way

Why do we suffer?

Family psychologist Natalya Panfilova, member of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League, employee of the International Center for Practical Psychology “Integration”:
— A person should not go without sex for a long time. Do you remember what period our ancestors set for mourning? Year. In fact, this is the limit of human abstinence, unless he decides to go to a monastery. Prostatitis is a disease not only of men leading a sedentary lifestyle, but also of those who are deprived of sex. Everyone’s physical needs are different, but complete denial of sexual life is wrong - it is necessary in different forms both at 18 and at 60. Lack of sexual desire, by the way, is one of the signs of sluggish depression.
If a person really needs sex, I advise him to look for it. It all depends on how and where to do it. It’s bad when the search ends with masturbation in the toilet - they say, I can’t get along with a real woman, I’ll have to deal with it myself. This is absolutely not a way out of the situation: the problem must be solved, and not hidden from it. It’s a different matter when the search for a partner is combined with self-realization - in this case, one does not interfere with the other. A sexual partner can be found in the gym or at cosmetology courses, it all depends on who exactly the person is looking for: a woman who dreams, for example, of a strong, decisive man, can go diving or parachute jumping; if she needs a rich man, she can go to a foreign language course or to a sports club. It turns out that you can kill two birds with one stone. When a person begins to get carried away with something, this hobby attracts the right companion to him, the person who suits him.


Keep your eyes peeled!!
A person experiencing an acute lack of sex can be recognized by the way they move - such people often slouch and fuss. They can be given away by wet and cold hands, which the owner seems to have nowhere to put. Another characteristic “point” is the frequent mention of sex and the desire to stubbornly deny the problem: such a person often convinces a psychologist that in fact he “doesn’t need any sex,” constantly repeating this.