Generally, women begin to enter menopause after the age of 50, when ovulation stops and estrogen in the body decreases. Because of the constraints of traditional thinking, it is considered shameful to have sex after menopause, and they may even sleep in separate beds with their husbands. Is it true that you cannot have sex after menopause?

Can I have sex after menopause?

After menopause, a woman's ovaries will not secrete estrogen, nor will she ovulate. Her fertility will weaken, and her sexual response speed and intensity will decrease. However, the above changes will not have any impact on her sexual life, so it is possible to have sexual life after menopause. However, after menopause, the level of estrogen decreases, the vaginal secretion is insufficient, the vaginal wall atrophies and becomes less elastic, and problems such as pain during sexual intercourse or dyspareunia are prone to occur during sexual intercourse. Therefore, you must pay attention to gentle movements during sexual intercourse. Generally, the number of sexual intercourse per month during menopause is 2 to 4 times. Appropriate sexual intercourse can delay the aging of sexual organs, exercise vaginal muscles, and delay vaginal muscle atrophy.

What should you pay attention to during sex life after menopause?

1. Reasonable use of lubricants

Women who maintain a regular sexual life before menopause will still maintain good sexual adaptation after menopause. However, after menopause, estrogen decreases and vaginal dryness occurs. You may wish to use lubricants or take sex hormones as directed by your doctor. They can increase the thickness and elasticity of vaginal epithelium, stimulate vaginal secretions, and reduce or eliminate pain during sexual intercourse.

2. Pay attention to women’s feelings

Women will undergo great physical and psychological changes after menopause. Women must pay attention to women's feelings during sex. They cannot just pursue their own sexual pleasure and ignore women's feelings. In addition, after entering middle age, couples become too familiar with each other, and there will be no passion during sex. This will give women a very disrespectful feeling, and even cause women to become sexually frigid.

3. Do not use sex toys frequently

When entering middle age, many couples choose sex toys to stimulate sexual desire. However, frequent use of sex toys will make sexual life at a high level of stimulation. If this standard is not reached, both men and women will gradually lose passion, which is not conducive to the improvement of the quality of sexual life.

4. Don’t ignore foreplay

Foreplay is very important for middle-aged couples. They can caress and kiss each other, which can fully mobilize the emotions of both parties. After menopause, women's secretions decrease, making sexual intercourse more difficult. If you ignore foreplay, women won’t feel anything.

Warm reminder

During menopausal sexual life, the husband's care and understanding and the coordination between the couple are crucial. Simply relying on estrogen supplementation for treatment can only alleviate the physical causes, but cannot improve the psychological factors. Postmenopausal women's sexual response is relatively slow, so they can appropriately extend sexual foreplay to increase stimulation. Lubricant can also be used to protect the vaginal mucosa and reduce pain. In addition, you can also choose different sexual positions according to your own physical condition.