After a week of confinement, the weight of isolation can begin to be felt in some people. A feeling which is also true from the sexual point of view for the single people or stuck in their house without their half. At the microphone of Europe 1, sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc gives her advice to manage this frustration as calmly as possible.
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Living without sexuality is possible
Our society leaves us to think that we cannot live without sexuality, that it is the expression of our power to be adults active in everyday life, and some vis-à-vis other. But we can perfectly live without sexuality, it is only vital to reproduce us. She is there to do us good, to create a bond, a physical conversation with the other. It is thus quite possible, even when one is strongly animated by impulses, to put them aside for a time without there being any damage to the body.
Besides, remember when we were teenagers with a particularly strong rise in sap, it was not immediately that we jumped on each other. We put time, we turned around the subject, we reflected ...
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But if we practice less, do we want less?
Some, obsessed with the question of their libido, will have the feeling of suffocating under the feeling of this desire, while others will divert it onto something else and peacefully live this abstinence. However, as soon as the possibilities return, the libido will not be destroyed, on the contrary.
Can indoor sports channel this sexual energy?
Yes, because the [sexual] drive is not only for sexuality. In reality, we have a life energy that serves sexuality but also lots of other actions. It allows us to make hormones that do us the greatest good. Enjoyment does not only go through sexuality: sport is a means of making endorphins, the pleasure that our brain takes over from us and that energizes us every day.
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Is masturbation a good way to relieve pressure?
Men mainly have the feeling that the sexual urge will overflow, and that it is absolutely necessary to release a little of this pressure through masturbation. Everyone sees noon at their door: if it is important for a person, they can indulge in it quietly. There is no harm or shame in having. Her sex belongs to her, she is free to do what she wants with it.
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