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Talking openly about sex is not easy for many.

There are high expectations, quite a few Hollywood films and yes, even porn has screwed us up in this regard.

Hardly anyone knows what is normal in lovemaking.

Some are afraid of being labeled as boring.

And then there are the days when you really just don't feel like having sex.

This is not that rare, as the first representative study on health and sexuality in Germany found.

According to this, every third man and even every second woman is simply listless at times.

Literally.

The study was published under the direction of Peer Briken from the Institute for Sexual Research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in the "Deutsches Ärzteblatt".

Things don't always go perfectly in bed

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Between 2018 and 2019, a total of 4955 women and men between the ages of 18 and 75 were randomly selected and surveyed for the study.

The evaluation of all 18 subject areas lasted until the end of 2020.

However, only around 30 percent answered the doctors' 260 questions.

So it could be that many more people in Germany have problems with lust.

At least from time to time.

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The questions were based on the ICD-11 guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), which will come into force in 2022.

They are designed to help doctors around the world better diagnose diseases and health problems - also with regard to our sexuality.

The doctors asked the study participants, among other things, about their sexual desire and how they perceive arousal or an orgasm.

Ejaculation problems were also discussed as well as possible pain during intercourse.

Every fifth German has suffered from sexual dysfunction at some point

If someone personally feels severely impaired by not being able to feel any more pleasure, one usually speaks of a dysfunction.

The researchers found that around one in five respondents had done this at least once.

So quite often.

Men who had ejaculation problems in the past were most commonly affected.

In the survey you stated that they perceive this as a very great burden.

But women are also affected.

Especially if they feel severe pain during sex or generally cannot relax.

This first large-scale study of its kind in Germany is intended to help identify how widespread sexual disorders actually are in the population.

The fact that only around 30 percent of the selected participants actually completed the questionnaire shows that this is often still a taboo subject.

The researchers suspect that many were not prepared to provide information about their intimate life in an anonymized questionnaire on the computer.

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