Study: Muslim Prayer Improves Your Sex Life
A new study from the Universiti Malaya in Malaysia has found that 'solat' (Muslim prayer positions) can improve your health and your sex life. No wonder the faithful fall to their knees five times a day. The team of biomedical researchers found that correct performance of prayer leads not only to spiritual well being but also to improvements in posture, blood circulation, the strength of pelvic floor muscles, and erectile dysfunction (ED). The positions also reduced back pain in pregnant women. Lead researcher Prof. Madya Dr. Fatimah Ibrahim said, “Our own trial with two ED patients saw vast improvements (in their sexual health) after a month of ‘prayer therapy’.”
Various prayer positiions or poses offer different health benefits. For example, bowing forward with one's hands resting on the knees, known as 'rukuk,' or being fully prostrate, known as 'sujud,' can relax the spinal column and reduce pressure on spinal nerves. Muslim prayer requires a series of positions or movements called a 'rakaat.' A typical rakaat will begin with a standing position and end with a prostrate position. Researchers found that performing 12 rakaat equalled 30 minutes of light exercise. The study also showed that you don't have to be a follower of Islam to reap the benefits of prayer. “The non-Muslim mothers only acted out the positions during the therapy sessions. They showed improvement in just a month,” said Dr. Ibrahim. So whether you're praying to God or just praying for an erection, this sounds like a great alternative to a prescription for little blue pills.
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Your heading is misleading
Your heading is misleading and frankly annoying to an atheist like me. The exercises has nothing to do with religion to be helpful to the person who is doing them, it is a stupid useless "news" . Exercise, movement, controlled movement, yoga postures help the body, so what? SO, now one has to conert and be a muslim and do the namaz for the benefits of it? Stop publishing absurdities.
Wow, way to blow up. I'm
Wow, way to blow up. I'm pretty sure that the article didn't say that you have to convert at all. Don't be pissy about the title of the article if you're only going to read the first paragraph.
Someone studying prayer positions IS news, to me.
Renee, I understand that this
Renee, I understand that this article seems misleading but the last part says one doesn't have to be a Muslim and several pregnant no-Muslim women benefited from this therapy. Just imitate the physical postures to gain from the 'exercise'.
Islam, religion of peace and chiropractics?
Sounds pretty homeopathic to me.
Slavery to imaginary monster daddy
Sounds like it's just exercise and meditation that one needs, not slavery to a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, intolerant monster of a "god" to enjoy your sex life. Muslims are among the most sexually repressed people in the world and bending over for daddy in the sky is not helping them get over their sexual hangups. This article is just more excuse for cultural relativists and the cowards among liberals who are afraid to speak up against Islam and its atrocities and who are looking for excuses to justify the SLAVE mentality it promotes.
Honestly!
If we go based upon your theory then all forms of religion promote a slave mentality as do manmade laws that go even further in repressing indivduals and their desires. Muslims are not sexually repressed just because the people actually choice to follow the moral guidance given that prohibits pre-marital and extra marital sex unlike adherents to other faiths that know the "rules" but choose to ignore them in favor of personal gratifcation which leads to nothing but heartache when the relationship goes nowhere or leads to disease or unwanted pregnancies. Further Muslim women have the right to divorce an impotent husband (or one who just can't provide sexual gratification) so how is that sexually repressive; it's not because it recognizes the basic human need for sex.
To really enjoy the full sexual experience one needs a calm mind and Islamic prayers and the accompanying movements provide clarity and calmness to the mind as well as the physical benefits mentioned so indeed it is a good thing.
Let's be really honest, shall we?
What is the difference between how a woman can divorce her husband and how a man can divorce his wife, according to Shariah (Islamic law)? Is it not true that a man can just say that he is "giving" her a divorce, but she has to go through a lengthy process to "obtain" a divorce? Do you think that makes men and women equal in Islam? Have you read the passages in the Quran that say a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, and that a woman is to receive half the inheritance of a man? Have you read the Quranic verses and the Islamic Hadiths that allow for marriage between pre-pubescent girls and grown men?
Do you actually believe that pre-marital and extra-marital sex does not occur in Muslim societies? What about domestic violence, both reported and unreported? What about polygyny? Temporary marriages? When women aren't supposed to work or be independent, do you think they have the capacity to leave abusive husbands? Keeping women uneducated is a surefire way to keep them as property.
Unlike most other religions, SLAVERY and SUBMISSION are the basic tenets of Islam. The word Islam itself means Submission (to the will of God, which is of course, always represented by / communicated to one man or another from Mohammed on.)
And yes, most religions require blind adherence or mental slavery of their followers, certainly the abrahamic ones do. All it takes is a bit of research to find out for one's self and stop relying on the interpretations and brainwashing provided by religious clerics who of course always stand to benefit by keeping people in their flock. Think for yourself, read for yourself.