THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EXERSICE AEROBIC AND SEXUALLITY IN MARRIED WOMAN

ABSTRACT

Background : A healthy sexual life is one of happiness factor in marriage. Sex plays a part on marriage badly. Based on interview with exercise aerobic participants in Santika gymnastic, we got that one of their aim doing this was to make a healthy life and to lose their body weight, which bothering their various activities including their sexual life.
Objective : To know the difference of sexuality level on exercise woman’s and unexercised woman’s.
Method : This research was a non experimental, using comparative analytic description with cross sectional approach. This research was taken in February 18 to March 16, 2008 at Santika gymnastic and Sendowo village Yogyakarta. The variable of this research were exercise and sexuality variable. Data were collected in two groups, the exercise woman’s and unexercised woman’s. Each group was 30 respondents.
Result : Based on the result, we got that in exercise group, 15 respondents doing exercise for 3-5 times a week. Thirteen respondents (43,3%) of exercise woman were highly sexual desires and the others in Sendowo village Yogyakarta, which didn’t do exercise, their sexual desire’s only 11 (36,6%). Eighteen respondents (60%) of exercise woman were highly sexual responses than the unexercised women were sexual response only 2 (6,7%) respondents. On sexual activities, we got that in exercised woman, 18(60%) respondents were highly activities sexual and the unexercised exercise group were the sexual activities only 4(613,3%). The result of Chi Square statistic test calculation showed that there was difference sexual desire’s between exercise woman and unexercised woman (p=0,00< 0.05), sexual response (p=0,002 <0,05) and the sexual activities (p=0,00<0,05).
Conclusion : there is difference of sexual desire’s, sexual response and activities sexual on exercise woman and unexercised woman.

Keywords : exercise, sexuality, aerobic