High Heels And Your Sex Drive
Better for your health, better for your sex life, and better to renew your pelvic pleasures. Hard to believe that we're talking about wearing high heels, but recent studies reverse the old negative publicity which blasted those staples of everyday women's existence...studies which blamed high heels as a cause of bad posture, stress fractures and other injury. Now they're just the cure for failing sex drives according to a recent study published in the journal, European Urology. And just the cure for admiring men as well as consumer women.
Opening the controversy is Dr.Maria Cerruto, a researcher and urologist at Italy's University of Verona. Cerruto, who expresses a great affection for such shoes, claims that high heels (also known as "stilettos" in Italy), tone the legs and strengthen the all- important pelvic muscles. Just wearing these shoes would, in effect, replace much of the need for the pelvic exercises necessary to keep the pelvic area musculature healthy.
She studied 66 women under the age of 50, and discovered that women who held up their feet at a 15 degree angle to the ground, the physical equivalent of a two inch, or moderate heel, showed up to 15 per cent less electrical activity in their pelvic muscles. This leads to the conclusion that these same muscles are more relaxed, when the woman is wearing the heels than not wearing the heels, increasing muscular strength and the ability to contract. Physiologically, the pelvic muscles are responsible for sexual performance and satisfaction. Less electrical activity means more relaxation, and more relaxation translates into better sex according to Dr. Cerruto. And better health.
Unspoken, but obviously related, is the fact that this unintended exercise and relaxation of the pelvic muscles is far more amenable to the boring, jarring and often hazardous pelvic exercises dished out as therapy to women getting over their pregnancy or surgery. If the exercise is suitable, then, the woman is more likely to exercise, just like anyone else. And if the regimen of merely wearing these suddenly medicinal fashion accessories leads to better health, women will not complain. And, of course, neither will admiring men.
Admiring men will continue to admire, with the logical extension that women desire admiring men and will wear the shoes more, hence exercising more. High heels are a broad and very ancient acceptable fetish in fashion and art. They seem to traverse all cultures and income levels, are depicted with great regularity in magazines, stocked widely in stores, and sell very well, regardless of the vogue otherwise.
Now they are seen as very healthy for exercise of the same sexual urges and practices which teased them into popular existence. Remember those high heels can cause foot, ankle, knee and back problems. They are not for everyone, especially those women with a history of ankle sprains, bad knees, bad hips and backs.
All in all, a very happy circumstance for men and women. Just what the doctor ordered, and not unpalatable medicine at that.
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By the way I used to walk for miles in high heels...like to the bus station, train station in Europe. Never had back problems or any other problems . ALL BS
Sorry, I don't buy it. Ask any podiatrist and they'll tell you this is a fallacy. Good comfortable shoes that support the foot properly are so much better for one's health. If you want to get strong sexy calves, wear nice supportive running shoes and walk or run regularly. If you want a healthy pelvis, then women should regularly practice "self-cultivation". High heels are just another way society and the men who run the fashion industry keep women "hobbled". Next they'll be telling us that foot binding will build better glutes!
Sheesh!
In a word: Bull.
IMO, this is on par with the studies that showed the "positive health effects of tobacco," in the late 60s and early 70s, and the Big Oil sponsored "studies" that claim to prove that Climate Change is a myth -- an attempt to justify an already-held opinion.
This study was undertaken by a person with an admitted bias, which seems to me to radically skew their perceptions and conclusions.
1. I believe that it has been demonstrated that the higher the heel worn, and the longer the durations worn, the greater the probability of shortening a woman's calf muscles (making regular walking difficult, at best). It doesn't "improve the muscles ability to contract," as teh doctor states -- it puts them into a permanently contracted state!
2. There is a huge difference between the "toe-step" muscle strengthening exercise benefits gained by limited duration elevations and the 8-12 hours a day mode that heels necessitate. I can "curl" a weight for several repetitions and strengthen my bicep. If I maintain that curl position all day every day ... my arm is going to get seriously warped and lose its full range of motion.
3. The stretch to correlate an alleged decrease in electrical activity to a certain group of muscles and assert that this additional electrical activity results in improved sexual performance and or enjoyment is as tenuous as a Rube Goldberg machine. Electrical activity signifies muscle activation ... a deadened, restricted, or otherwise compromised set of muscles will probably show "decreased electrical activity." If anything, I would hypotheisize the exact opposite conclusion!
4. Wearingheels throws off a woman's natural posture and has been linked with back, neck, hip, and other joint pins/conditions.
All in all, this strikes me as yet another person's attempt to rationalize a personal fetish.
Are you going to look good or be comfortable? Take you pick.
I think the author just wants to see more babes wearing high heels.
What BS... Women who wear high heels, just care more about their physical appearance and like to
attract males. So sex is a natural act to follow. Heck I wore high heels for years. I am glad though that I don't have to wear them anymore. lololol....
Some of us just love fashion and find some heels to be so absolutely cute we cannot resist the temptation to wear them. It's not all about attracting males, or am I the only girl on here who actually get the creeps from the constant adoring stares of strange men? I dress for myself.
Its not that wearing heels causes women to want sex, its that women feel sexier wearing them and then are more turned on. Now this is probably because of all the advertising and stuff forced into us. I always feel sexier in 3 inch heels than sneakers though.
Men based on the fact that this is done by an Italian Researcher, and the fact that Italy is the major product or of high heels i'am putting a doubt on the intelligence and the purpose of that research. What i'am saying is that beeing a big company producing high heels and that i want to increase my sells i can pay a guy that has a title in a university so he can do a crap research. They did the same thing with the wine and the benefit of drinking it once a week and it was the main conversation for all the people for a week and the sells where blown away. It's so easy to manipulate the mind of human that i have a doubt on the validity of that kind of research. Common you can spend your time doing research beyond that kind of subject per exemple : the benefit of taking care of your feet to reduce the stress in you body.
I hope this is not supposed to be scientific research. To equate the lack of electrical activities of pelvic muscles to better sex is in itself an outrageous conclusion. Where are the double-blind and statistical significance that are required in medical studies ? If this is meant to be a joke, well then, that's O.K. .
It's men who need the help in the pelvic area...they should wear the high heels.
Will it help their prostates?
As a man, I think some women look transformed in heels; other women look as though they were wearing heels when in fact they are not. Much depends on the incipient erotic energy of the individual woman and the company she is in. Body and shoes are one part of the equation, spirit and personality another. Some women exude a lifeless sex without eroticism.
I understand foot binding has similar benefits. It takes a lot of muscle strength to totter around with bound feet or high heels - men should forget those leg lifts and try it.
Not to mention that the view of women in heels can increase the sex drive of a lot of males out there, as well...so it's a win-win. Anyone doing a study on THAT?
Huh.... I was wondering why my wife always found herself MORE comfortable in heels than flats... Now we now, I guess.
Remember those high heels can cause foot, ankle, knee and back problems.
Gee that's a real turn on!
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