Population control is one of the major issues facing many developing countries of the world. Overpopulation has numerous adverse effects; these include pressure on natural resources, unemployment and the challenge of providing more food for consumption, which invariably leads to exploitation of renewable and non-renewable resources. Overpopulation is a challenge especially for economies that are yet to achieve their full potential and attain development.
African countries along with China, India and some Latin countries are faced with extreme population growth rates. According to worldmeters.info, Nigeria ranks seventh among countries and dependencies by population. Population can be controlled in many ways, ranging from legislative actions, poverty eradication, effective family planning, to accessibility of contraceptives among others.
Since population increase requires sexual activity among couples, it is important that efforts on population control should stem from it and about time we broadened the discussion about population and family planning to include sex. Couples need to be enlightened on the need to create a long lasting relationship through good sexual experience. Sexual satisfaction is a critical success factor in every marriage and can reduce the need for a spouse to seek extramarital affairs or a second marriage.
With the growing spate of infidelity in marriages in Nigeria, there is urgent need for spouses to ensure that they do all they can to satisfy their spouse and maintain a healthy marital relationship. When couples are sexually satisfied, they tend to be emotionally stable, more productive at work, and the home becomes more suitable to raise children and strong families for the society.
To promote this, experts believe that the use of sex lubricant is effective. According to Mr. Peter Inekwe, the Chief Operating Officer of Greenmeans Healthcare Limited, distributors of Moist personal multipurpose lubricant, “Moist is a water based non-irritating and safe lube used to reduce friction and aid penetration during intercourse. It is also used for certain medical procedures like catheter insertion and gynecological examination”.
He stated that “while men are mostly ready to engage in sexual intercourse, women may experience dryness, pain and difficulty in penetration due to a lack of secretion of vaginal fluid which can be caused by various factors like hormonal changes, antihistamine medications, anxiety, and insufficient arousal among others”.
*Mr. Inekwe advised,though there is no justification for cheating, spouse should play their cards positively by using Moist lubricant to enhance a deep feeling of satisfaction for each other rather than denying one another as a result of discomfort associated with dryness. It has been proven that the more spouses are sexually happy and satisfied in marriage the less likely they are to engage in extramarital affairs which may lead to having children outside the legal marriage, an impediment to overpopulation. *
This way, population can be controlled because the couple will be satisfied with the children they planned to have and birth-control is more effective among responsible married couples. In the words of Alan Atkisson, “we maintain the taboo around sexual pleasure to our peril. Population control isn’t just about making contraception available. It’s about making love, in all senses of the term”. He noted that, “if we do not want to reproduce ourselves to death, we must be willing to expose – with joy, as well as sensitivity – the sex at the heart of life”.
Moist Lubricant eliminates pain and dryness during intercourse thereby ensuring that intimate moments between couples are pleasurable and guarantees sexual satisfaction among couples as well as a vital way to aid population control.