According to the Xinhua news agency in Beijing, the researchers conducted a study that showed the connection between bicycle riding and a violation of the sensitivity of the nerves of the female genital area.

Scientists compared the condition of 48 female cyclist athletes with 22 female runners. Cyclists passed weekly at least 10 miles, track and field athletes - covered a distance of at least 5 miles. Women involved in athletics were taken as a control group of physically active young women who did not experience direct mechanical compression of the nerves of the genital sphere.

"We found that women who engage in cycling have decreased the sensitivity of the organs and nerves of the genital area. And although this did not worsen the quality of life of young women and did not violate their intimate life, changes in sensitivity were significant. "- says Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Marsha Guess.

This study was started in connection with the identification of a negative effect on the erectile function of cycling in men. "This is the first study of such a plan and its results suggest that frequent and severe compression of the external sexual nerve and artery can lead to stagnation of blood in the small pelvis and damage to the nerves.

Cycling brings a lot of good, but it also brings pain and damage to the spine and neck, as well as the sexual sphere, to which both sexes are exposed, "says Guess.

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