'Ignorance about sex leads to infertility'

VADODARA: Gynaecologists in city are recording a disturbing trend -- despite all the education and exposure to mass media and even sex education in schools, young couples are increasingly showing lack of enthusiasm and ignorance about sex due to either stress or modern lifestyle, which in turn is leading to rise in infertility.
"On an average I get four couples a month who have been married for three years and are seeking treatment for infertility.Diagnosis then reveals that despite their claims of having regular sex, the females sometimes require hymenectomy to aid pregnancy," a city gynaecologist Dr Suchitra Nene says.
On the World Health Day on Saturday, during her address at a seminar organized by Baroda Management Association (BMA), Nene was keen to caution young couples about lack of sex in their lives. "Blame it on stress and the present lifestyles, marriages are becoming more of putting on outward appearances than feeling happiness in the union of body and soul."
"What compounds the problem of lack of sex is that couples are ignorant about how much is 'enough'. Couples start seeking infertility treatment after barely two or three months of unprotected sex these days, whereas marriages are happening late and the women are well in their 30s. Medical evidence suggests that one-and-a-half year of unprotected sex offers about 23 per cent chance of pregnancy," Dr Nene adds.
Another city gynaecologist Dr Nirmal Sharma agrees that stress and lack of knowledge are robbing the married couples of happines. "I get two couples every month who are either ignorant or disinterested in sex. Counseling mainly does the trick in such cases."
Shockingly, the patient profiles in such cases include well-educated, and upwardly mobile individuals like engineers, teachers, management professionals et al. "One engineer husband confessed sheepishly that he knew all about the 'technical' part of sex, but wasn't sure whether as a couple "they were on the right track," revealed Dr Nene.
"The problem may have persisted earlier also, but the modern age couples are more inclined to opening up and discussing these conditions," feels Dr Neelam Desai, another gynaecologist, who also has young couples walking in to seek advice for correct way of having sex to have babies. "Pay enough attention to your bedroom, it's also important for your physical and mental well-being," Dr Nene delivers the parting shot.
Half-baked knowledge and nuclear family existence is becoming the bane of young married couples who harbour all sorts of myths in their minds where sex and pregnancy is concerned, according to Dr Nene. "I was shocked into silence when an engineer husband whose school teacher wife was five months pregnant asked me in January, whether his wife could now sleep under a blanket at night since it was getting cold. They were scared that making the female sleep under a blanket would suffocate the baby!"