Childbirth, depression affects sex life

Psychiatric disorders like depression, eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa and childbirth affect a woman’s sex life, according to a small research study by New Zealand scientists. According to these research findings published in the “International Journal of Eating Disorders”, women have more frequent sex when they have these eating and psychiatric disorders but they face problems during sex. According to researchers, impact of child birth on sex life is different from psychiatric disorders.

The researchers studied the responses from 76 women of which 10 women are anorexic and 24 women are suffering from major depression. All the women were married and 42 women had given birth within the past 2 months.
Even though, Women in the post natal group didn’t have any problems during sex, they had less frequent sex. Women with anorexia or depression have more frequent sex but 30% of women faced problems during sex.

We need research studies on these topics by including more people.