dec 22 2012151 ladies does all of the cooking baking shopping entertaining wrapping and decorating associated with good holiday cheer leave you too jinglejangled to be naughty or nice if so heres some good news theres probably nothing seriously wrong with you if you prefer catching some shuteye to knocking boots this time of year the main factors contributing to low sex drive in women including younger woman seem to intensify during the craziness of the holidays 7 ways the holidays hurt your looks sex drive killers theres no doubt that some women experience low or no desire and that this troubles them that said we need to be more critical about lumping women into low or no desire groups particularly as some women are not distressed by their lack of desire explains sex expert debby herbenick phd research scientist at indiana university and author of because it feels good rodale 2009 they may not have a particularly warm or kind partner or they may be very stressed about work or family or exhausted as they care for a newborn and may well realize that there are times in life when sex takes a temporary backseat for a good reason contrary to what you may see on tv a lull in sexual desire isnt always a crisis we should challenge ideas that suggest that women or men should always want lots of sex all the time herbenick says in a 2010 study published in the journal of sexual medicine researchers looked at 400 premenopausal women age 18 or older with low sexual desire disorder the researchers estimate that seven to 12 percent of the female population lives with decreased sexual desire and associated distress in the study it turned out that 85 percent of the lowsexdrive women cited multiple factors for their low drive here are the main culprits 1 stress or fatigue 60 percent of study participants said these factors contribute to low sex drive 2 dissatisfaction with personal appearance 41 percent 3 sexual difficulties including problems reaching orgasm 34 percent the study authors conclude that boosting selfesteem along with reducing fatigue and stress could significantly fire up a womans sex life holiday relationship rescue more from prevention hectic holidays can leave you more interested in sleep than sex but hold the phonehow can this be werent we raised on the rumor that men hit their sexual peak at age 18 and women at age 30 arent premenopausal women supposed to be raring to go herbenick has heard the theory of women being in their sexual prime at age 30 too the research doesnt back up that claim data from our national sex survey suggests that men and women have more frequent sex when theyre younger more often in their 20s for women and mid20s to 30s for men but we know that women more easily orgasm with age she explains and as both men and women tend to prefer sex in a relationship compared