{"id":2438,"date":"2012-06-27T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T12:04:46","slug":"too-stressed-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/too-stressed-for-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Stressed For Sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent studies <\/a>say that\u00a0stress, particularly job stress, has women so stretched and frazzled that sex is disappearing from their radar screens.\u00a0 One such\u00a0study found that 6 of 10 British working women believe that job stress \"dramatically<\/a> affects their sex lives.\" \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Author Jilly Cooper says:<\/p>\n

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Women don\u2019t want to have sex anymore because they have too much on their plates.\u201cDoctors\u2019 waiting rooms are absolutely brimming these days with women suffering from low libidos,\u201d Cooper told The Telegraph.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have talked to a lot of young women about this, and they just don\u2019t seem to do it any more,\u201d Cooper adds. \u201cHonestly, I suppose it\u2019s because we all have so many other demands on our time now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And\u00a0stress has the opposite affect on some women.\u00a0 A travel magazine study found that 40% of women in their 20's had a one-night-stand while on vacation and 10% of them average more than 4 sexual partners a week.<\/p>\n

Maybe it's just that the young have more energy.\u00a0 Maybe it's that they haven't yet formed dreams and had them crushed beneath the relentless burden of daily stress in a world gone mad.\u00a0 I don't think it's just sex that women are too stressed for these days.\u00a0 So many of us feel\u00a0like the camel - one more straw will be one too many for our backs- our psyches- and our lives.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Romance novels\u00a0allow women to escape\u00a0long enough to shed a straw or two from their load, so they can keep on keeping on a bit longer.\u00a0 Combine that escape with racy, raunchy and over-the-top bad boy sex a la Fifty Shades of Grey, and it may even\u00a0perk\u00a0up\u00a0enough interest for a mattress mambo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hopefully we'll all get to chill out soon.\u00a0 Until that happens, I'll be reading a little romance\u00a0to give me an escape hatch and writing a little more to provide one for all the other women out there who, like me, are tired of racing rats.\u00a0 Right now, I'm working on a\u00a0new one for my Forever Series - this one is Peter's story and it's gonna be good.\u00a0 I hope it'll hit the shelves in time to be on everyone's Christmas list.<\/p>\n

Until my new one is out, boogle on over to my book list <\/a>and pick up one to rev your engine enough to speed straight\u00a0 through your 9 to 5 and wind up in your bedroom for the best kind of nightcap. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent studies say that\u00a0stress, particularly job stress, has women so stretched and frazzled that sex is disappearing from their radar screens.\u00a0 One such\u00a0study found that 6 of 10 British working women believe that job stress \"dramatically affects their sex lives.\" \u00a0\u00a0 Author Jilly Cooper says: Women don\u2019t want to have sex anymore because they have ...continue reading \"Too Stressed For Sex?\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}