What harm can they do?

One of the challenges that most couples face throughout their relationship is to achieve a satisfying sex life. Situation that is seen many times affected by the habits that each one has in their day to day.

According to the expert Carmen López Sosa, professor of Sexology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca, a strategy to improve your sexual life is that you and your partner are encouraged to look in each of you for the areas that most generate pleasure from their bodies, their fantasies and that are honest when it comes to mutually expressing what they want to do or to experience.

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What harm can they do?

Habits are part of our daily routine. They are actions that can be beneficial for our physical and emotional health, but others have the capacity to undermine our sexual life, even more than the custom and prejudices.

Here we present 6 of the habits that damage your sex life according to science.

1. Cry in a movie. A study of Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, he discovered that men, by smelling tears, their sexual arousal were dramatically reduced. This is because testosterone had declined significantly in brain regions associated with sexual arousal.

2. Riding a bicycle The saddles of bicycles are designed in such a way that the weight can compress the nerves and blood vessels of the area of ​​the perineum - the floor of the pelvis - which are necessary for the proper functioning of the sexual organs, according to a research carried out by the Yale University in the United States.

3. Drink coffee. Its excessive consumption can damage the adrenal glands, responsible for producing certain stress hormones. Over time, if the functioning of the adrenals drops, other hormones in the body, such as sexual and thyroid hormones are affected, decreasing the quality of sexual life. This is indicated by a publication of the Huffington Post.

4. Drink soda. The National Institute of Health distributed a study linking soda to depression, a condition that affects sexual desire.

5. Use of technology. Life as a couple is also affected, and it is becoming common practice to say good night to the laptop instead of the person sleeping next to us. In the United States, 67% of Americans go to bed with their mobile phone.

Remember that in your hands is improving these habits that damage your sex life. Do not forget! Your partner will appreciate it.