Women and Their Sexual Problems, Oh Well
I had to laugh when I read this report. Sorry, I know this is a serious issue, but duh!
This study says that about 40% of all women suffer some kind of sexual dysfunction, but only 12% of them are upset about it. The numbers reflect that
“The highest prevalence of sexual dysfunction was in older women, but they experienced less associated distress,” Shifren said. “The most distress occurred at mid-life, and the youngest women had the lowest prevalence of problems and of associated distress.”
First, woman do not have the same sexual drive as men do, because males are made to continue procreation till old age and death, whereas womens bodies tell them after they are no longer to bare children to not be concerned about it. However what our bodies make us feel and what we conciously want to be able to feel are sometimes two different things.
Middle age women are most likely the most distressed because of a touch of middle age crises, it’s a sign of getting old and of course that’s distressing. Also middle age and older woman no longer have to take care of little ones who take up all their waking time and drain them of most of their energy so there’s room for little else, now that they have the time I can see where it must be upsetting that they don’t have the drive.
The two main dysfunctions they are citing are the inability to climax and the lack of desire. Most likely to my way of thinking, it’s men that tell women that their lack of desire is a problem. Men don’t understand that sex is not as high a priority for women as it is for them.
New Study Reveals That…
Mark Purdue from the National Cancer Institute discovered from government data on white men and woman from the ages of 15 to 39 that between the years of 1980 and 2004, yearly cases of melanoma increased in the young woman only, by about 50%. The numbers went from 9.4 cases to 13.9 cases per 100,000.
They also determined that the melanomas themselves were thicker and tended to be metastic which means it easily spreads to other parts of the body. Once a cancer does that it’s extremely difficult to treat or cure.
Young men did not show an increase in the skin cancer. The researchers right now don’t have an answer for why this occurred other than the suspicion that young woman do more sunbathing to get summer tans and also frequent tanning booths which are both risks for the deadly cancer.
Location and Medicare
A study that’s done every two years has concluded that Medicare is paying wildly different amounts depending on where in the United States you live. Some are four times as much as others.
They looked at ill seniors and disabled people and the care and length of hospital stays in their last two years of life. What they found was that doctors seemed to tailor the care they gave with the resources they had available. For example, if a city typically had few beds open, hospital stays where short and many would be treated as outpatients or in the doctors offices. Cities that had many beds open would have sick people staying a lot longer in that hospital.
This might seem logical and maybe not even worth a study. After all, if you don’t have beds for patients they can’t stay in the hospital. That seems to make sense. My question is why are people not staying in the hospitals for the amount of time they need to and no more? Why are people who are in need of hospital care being sent home, while those who could be treated at home are in the hospital?
I’m also wondering if these stats will be ever changing. What I mean is if you have an area where beds are tied up with lengthy stays won’t doctors start shortening those stays to free up beds? In time won’t there be many open beds because of shorter stays, which will in turn encourage doctors to keep patients longer and repeat the cycle?
Sounds like a game I don’t want to play.