#35: Tips for improving your physical relationship that don’t involve sex
#35: Tips for improving your physical relationship that don’t involve sexWhat can you do to encourage affectionate touch in your day-to-day lives?
[Image description: Text ‘Tips for improving your physical relationship that don’t involve sex’ on a lilac background] Female Health & Fertility is a new digital magazine and online hub created to support women and non-binary people who are affected by gynecological and reproductive issues. Its magazine content focuses on all stages of the reproductive cycle, from young adults to post-menopausal folks and its features are written by gynecologists, clinicians, therapists, nutritionists, researchers, and also readers who are sharing their lived experiences. I’ll be writing a monthly column called ‘Pleasure Principles with Almaz’, which will appear in the digital magazine each month. I’ll also be publishing it here for ‘She Dares To Say’ readers. [Image description: promo banner for Female Health & Fertility magazine showing an iPad with the magazine’s front cover on the right and text ‘Your body, your health, your magazine.’ on the left] Tips for improving your physical relationship that don’t involve sexSkin-to-skin contact is vital not only for mental and emotional health but physical health, too. But partners can often forget that this includes all of the non-sexual ways we can touch each other as well. And the ability to be able to foster intimacy without sex is an often-overlooked part of relationship building. Imagine a situation where you and your partner/date are watching TV together on the sofa. One person reaches over to stroke their partner’s thigh and gently kisses their cheek. But the partner on the receiving end feels like if they let their partner continue touching them, then they’ll end up having sex, which would actually be fairly stressful and not what they want right now. So, they say “I’m not up for it tonight, I’m tired.” And the partner who initiated the touch might then feel unappreciated, or even rejected. Lots of us will be able to relate to the scenario above, as it’s really common to get stuck in a dynamic where touching each other physically is a precursor to a sex session. But non-sexual acts of intimacy are really important elements of fulfilling relationships too. If physical touch is only sexual in nature, it can leave a person feeling objectified, and actually, if physical touch is expected to lead to sex each time, it’s likely to become less frequent, and often less sincere, too.
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