{"id":263339,"date":"2010-02-02T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/02\/is-negative-body-image-affecting-your-sex-life\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:35:00","slug":"is-negative-body-image-affecting-your-sex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/263339","title":{"rendered":"Is Negative Body Image Affecting Your Sex Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/sex\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/happiness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/how-to-be-happy\/\" rel=\"tag\">How to Be Happy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/01\/bodyimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Are you worried about the size of your thighs? Do you insist on sex with the lights out? <\/span><a  style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teeshamorgan.com\/\">Sexpert Teesha Morgan<\/a> <strong>explains how body image issues can interfere with your sex life &#8212; and offers some tips on what you can do about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q: How can negative body image affect someone&#8217;s sex life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A: Well, it&#8217;s something I see more often in women than men &#8212; mostly because of media. A lot of women feel like they&#8217;re fat. But there&#8217;s another aspect of body image, and it involves the genitals. A lot of women have a really negative view of their vaginas or vulvas and they think they&#8217;re dirty or that they smell, and that it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s not right. Getting past that is tough, but I recommend a book called <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/petals-journey-self-discovery-karras-dodson\/dp\/0974356255\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1265059201&amp;sr=8-2\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Petals<\/span><\/a> by Nick Karras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/02\/is-negative-body-image-affecting-your-sex-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Is Negative Body Image Affecting Your Sex Life?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/02\/is-negative-body-image-affecting-your-sex-life\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19334906\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/02\/is-negative-body-image-affecting-your-sex-life\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sex, Happiness, Health, How to Be Happy Are you worried about the size of your thighs? Do you insist on sex with the lights out? Sexpert Teesha Morgan explains how body image issues can interfere with your sex life &#8212; and offers some tips on what you can do about it. Q: How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}