Red Wine For Good Sex Say Researchers

the sexual mechanisms and stimuli for women are more complicated than for men

Researchers from the Urology and Public Health Departments based at the University of Florence claim that red wine can improve significantly sexual function in women. According to their study those women who consumed one or two glasses of red wine daily got better scores on a questionnaire designed to measure sexual health and sexual enjoyment.

The lead author of the study Dr. Nicola Mondaini who has written a book on the link between red wine and sexuality called Vino e Eros explained that practically no research had been done in the field of the link between wine and female sexual function. While plenty of research has been done on the link between male sexual function and erectile function and alcohol, when it comes to women there is much more to be learned.

Dr. Mondaini admitted that the sexual mechanisms and stimuli for women are more complicated than for men but red wine has been shown to improve the health of the heart and this is known to improve sexual health for both men and women.

Almost 800 women between the ages of eighteen and fifty took part in this study and those who drank over two glasses a day, those who smoked and those who suffered from sexual disorders were not included. The questionnaire called the Female Sexual Function Index is the standard tool used by medical professionals to measure female sexual health.

Researchers saw that those women who consumed two glasses of wine a day had an average score of 27.3 points which compares to 25.9 for those who consumed only one glass and 24.4 for those that did not drink.

The researchers said that they were surprised that overall it appeared that those women who drank two glasses of wine daily were older than the others yet tended to get better scores despite their advanced ages which are normally associated with reduced libido and sexual function.

The researchers admitted that fully understanding female sexual function was extremely difficult and hinted that more research needed to be done in this area. Their research was published in the respected Journal of Sexual Medicine.