Wednesday, January 05, 2000
Work to make sex fun, doctor tells women
BY SUE MACDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Sex is different things to different people. It can be exciting, boring, intense or purposeful. In Dr. Lana Holstein's world, sex can be just plain fun.
“There is a playfulness to sexuality and a tremendous nurturing quality as well,” says Dr. Holstein, director of women's health at Canyon Ranch spa/resort in Tucson, AZ. “Part of sex is funny, and it'd be a shame to make it all too serious.”
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IF YOU GO
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• Who: Dr. Lana Holstein, director of women's health at Tucson's Canyon Ranch spa/resort.
• What: “Sexuality and Vitality — Keeping Romance Alive at Any Age” lecture.
• When: 7 p.m. Jan. 18.
• Where: Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, downtown.
• Tickets: $21.50 by calling 241-7469.
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She combines humor with important health and mental health information to explore sexuality from a medical, emotional and spiritual perspective, and will do so Jan. 18 at the Aronoff Center, downtown.
Dr. Holstein is a frequent speaker on the Cincinnati-based Speaking of Women's Health tour, and her Jan. 18 program tackles “Sexuality and Vitality — Keeping Romance Alive at Any Age.”
SWH recently began offering lectures by individual speakers so that women who cannot get tickets for the sold-out spring conference can still experience the speakers and their messages.
Dr. Holstein often uses the analogy of a deep well in discussing women's vitality.
“I think of vitality as something that women don't tend to pay much attention too,” she says. “We tend to give it all away. Women are like a well. They pull up buckets of water for their family and their children and their co-workers, and then they get thirsty. And when they look into that well, there is nothing left for them, no more underground streams to tap.”
Sexuality, she says, can be one of the sources of vitality.
“A healthy, vibrant sex life is a great treasure, and it's worth working for,” she says. “To do that, you really need to know something about the anatomy of the body and how our bodies function sexually. And you also need to know what blocks that, whether it's emotional or physical.”
But many women have difficulty talking about sex, either out of embarrassment or a sense of taboo, she says. The same women who take classes or lessons to learn a sport or hobby, for example, still feel strange buying a book on sex or asking for help from a doctor or sex therapist.
And she hopes her frank discussions of sexuality will help dispel some of the myths and break down the barriers to open discussion.
“The spiritual dimension is a final dimension of sex that's critical,” she says. “I am really interested in that aspect of sexuality right now — the spiritual connection between partners who really love each other. That piece is often something we kind of ignore or don't put a lot of energy into, but it's really what makes it a treasure.”
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