Sex during menstruation, WHAT IS THE RISK?

Menstruation is still today a number of contentious matter, especially as it is the worst time for sex, do you think so? It is true that the chances of pregnancy are remote, but it incurs risks can cause serious health complications.

Since 1863 we know with certainty that menstruation is caused by the reproductive glands (ovaries) and the hormonal cycles of insemination. What happens is that roughly every 28 days the ovaries release a mature ovum (gamete or sex cell) to be fertilized during sexual intercourse for sperm and begin a pregnancy.

If the egg is fertilized as it travels through one of the fallopian tubes to reach the uterus or womb (cavity that can accommodate the fetus until birth), the coating on it, known as endometrium, and it is clear discarded along with the egg, through the vagina leading to bleeding or menstruation, which lasts 3 to 5 days.

Most women experienced 1 or 2 days before the rule premenstrual syndrome, a set of difficulties which include headaches and breast tenderness, muscle weakness, fluid retention, abdominal cramps, constipation or diarrhea, fatigue, nervousness and swollen belly, these symptoms usually disappear within hours after the onset of menstrual flow, or the second day of bleeding.

In reality, the fluid that is secreted is transparent, but is mixed with small amount of blood and fragments of endometrial tissue that covers the parent, making it unpleasant for many people, including many women, even think that as waste product secreted who is a dirty person.

Nevertheless, studies on female sexuality that ensures that millions of women are increased sexual desire during menstruation, and that making love during those days will relieve the cramping, desinflama breast and belly, and it will produce more intense orgasms , we must clarify that this does not happen in all females.

The explanation given by the researchers of the above is based on trust relationships created in the days of bleeding, because the absence of fertile egg that could be the possibilities of pregnancy are invalid.

No problem?
It should be remembered that although fertilization is unlikely to have sex during the days of regulation, the practitioners are another risk, sexually transmitted diseases. You see, blood and semen are vehicles microorganisms that cause hepatitis, gonorrhea or syphilis.

However, nowadays, the greatest danger is the possibility of AIDS infection transmitted by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and used as a means of transport semen, vaginal secretions and blood. The organism settles in cells called T4 lymphocytes (responsible for defending the body from external aggression), resulting in destruction of the immune system and consequent loss of the ability to fight disease, which has high susceptibility to submit sarcoma Kaposi (form of skin cancer), pneumocystis carinii (rare type of pneumonia), tuberculosis and diarrhea. Indeed, in the presence of menstrual bleeding is a latent risk, even when simply rub the penis against the vulva, or the friction is between vaginas when it comes to lesbian relationship, or making oral or anal sex.

It is imperative, then, use the condom from the beginning of the heterosexual intercourse to prevent any exchange of fluids, or the female condom, larger than the male, and that being thin sheath of polyurethane (plastic) meets the walls of the vagina, thereby avoiding contact with secretions that have and can put up to eight hours before sexual intercourse. Also note the use of condoms or dental latex oral sex if there is.

If the couple wants to experience, for fun or curiosity, sex during menstruation is recommended to do at the beginning or end of it when the flow is lower, and perhaps under the shower to put aside prejudices about the dirt.

Finally, some researchers point to a large extent the bad reputation that has accompanied the menstruation begins until today by the women who avoid talking about it by name and change it as there are for whom remains a difficult subject. How do you know?, Some called "rule" or "period", but there are also referred to as the "visit", the "trickle" or "red light", among many other ways to identify it.