访谈录[Interview]2007-10-02:Rekindle Your Sex Life 重燃激情(1)

Hello, and welcome to Health Talk.I'm Dr.Manny.
Could your sex life use a little spice?We will listen up. Joining me now is Dr Yvonne Fulbright. She's a good sexologist with some tips on how to put that hot sauce back into your love life.Thank you for coming.

Well. Thanks for having me.

Now, I gotta tell you I think that men, you know, are from what planet, Mars? And women are from Venus here. Sex drive changes you know there is a point time that you know the sex drive goes like this you know men get it and women don't feel it. What's the, what, you know is it the brain ,is it our chemistry.What's the difference?

Well.There are a number of reasons why either men or women could be experiencing low depth in their sex drive at any point in their lives whether it was stress or hormone¹ phisical related or life circumstances or even something like pregnancy².But every couple at some point/ seems to have a low and it's especially after the two years they have been together because, walk down the street is the passion aspect of your love life dies after two years.

Yeah. I get it.But you know, I know that there's, there are couples that they get married or they are to(gether), they live together and they seem to have, you know sex and sex and sex and they could have been married for 10 years or have been together for 20 years and it's sex and sex.But I think you know I'm a doctor.Right?And I talked to a lot of couples, I think that that's really not the rule.I, What I find is that at the beginning a lot of women have a very strong sexual appitite.But when they get into their late forties, that begins to dwindle³.And yet we, let's say will be guilt⁴ one end. You know, We fall into the fallback positions of hormonal⁵ changes and menopause or pre-menopause. But that's really not the chemistry of sex,er, for the most part,right?

Most definitely, I mean a lot of women do experience lows that are physical re, related to physical reasons as well as men. But I think a lot of people don't realise that they have a lot of power outside of the physicians' offers in getting their sex drives reg back up. Because really what keeps people passionate⁶ and together and satisfied is to do new things in the bedroom and outside the bedroom.And this is actually because of our brains that every time you experience novel stimuli⁷, the chemical Dopamine is released. And this is known as our love drug. And Dopamine actually stimulates⁸ Testosterone production .But Testosterone being the hormone that revs⁹ up the sex drive in both men and women.So really the key is making sure you keep things fresh in your relationship and putting in a lot of work to do that.

But sometimes the couples wait for each other to make the first move.

You can't do that.You have to be proactive. You have to own your happiness.You can't expect somebody to do it for you.

1 hormone   

n.荷尔蒙，激素，内分泌

参考例句：

• Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。

2 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

3 dwindle   

v.逐渐变小（或减少）

参考例句：

• The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.工厂雇员总数已经从4,000多人减少到几百人。
• He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。

4 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

5 hormonal   

adj.激素的

参考例句：

• Some viral diseases are more severe during pregnancy, probably tecause of hormonal changes. 有些病毒病在妊娠期间比较严重，可能是由于激素变化引起的。
• She underwent surgical intervention and a subsequent short period of hormonal therapy. 他接受外科手术及随后短暂荷尔蒙治疗。

6 passionate   

adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的

参考例句：

• He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
• He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。

7 stimuli   

n.刺激（物）

参考例句：

• It is necessary to curtail or alter normally coexisting stimuli.必需消除或改变正常时并存的刺激。
• My sweat glands also respond to emotional stimuli.我的汗腺对情绪刺激也能产生反应。

8 stimulates   

v.刺激( stimulate的第三人称单数 )；激励；使兴奋；起兴奋作用，起刺激作用，起促进作用

参考例句：

• Exercise stimulates the body. 运动促进身体健康。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Alcohol stimulates the action of the heart. 酒刺激心脏的活动。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

9 revs   

abbr.revolutions （复数）旋转，回转，转数n.发动机的旋转( rev的名词复数 )v.（使）加速( rev的第三人称单数 )；（数量、活动等）激增；（使发动机）快速旋转；（使）活跃起来

参考例句：

• The engine was doing 6000 revs. 引擎转速为6000。 来自互联网
• Shared primary objectives included the highest possible torque and fast response from low revs. 共同的主要目标包括尽可能高转矩和响应速度快的低转速。 来自互联网