menstrualhut

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Coitus and Menstruation in Perimenopausal Women

Points of interest from the article include:
Increased incidence of endometriosis for women who engage in coitus during menstruation.

"The data in this study show a fourfold elevation in increased menstrual flow among those perimenopausal women who reported a pattern of coitus during menses compared to those who did not (65.5% and 14.8% respectively)."

"They also show that women who reported that they refrained from coitus during menstruation had nine times the incidence of diminished flow compared to those who did not refrain from coitus when they were menstruating (62.9% and 6.9% respectively)."

"Both occasional and frequent coitus during menses showed a positive association with the incidence of endometriosis while such coital activity was unrelated to pelvic inflammatory disease."

Good information for those people who have sex during their period. (Something I don't do for my own personal reasons, but I know some women do.)

The article is well worth reading. Here is a shorter version of the article, less technical and pretty much only with the findings.

Other bits:
This country has a rate of hysterectomy --surgical castration of women--five times the rate of other medically-advanced nations.

A majority of American physicians consider perimenopausal women with increased or unexplained bleeding as prime candidates for hysterectomy and simultaneous castration (ovariectomy).

About 12 million U.S. women are in that perimenopausal transition.

And hello, by the way. ^_^