“Feeling comfortable and positive about one’s body was frequently mentioned as a factor that would facilitate sexual arousal” in Turning On and Turning Off: A Focus Group Study of the Factors That Affect Women’s Sexual Arousal (2003). Depression and anger also had a negative affect on sexuality. In My Body - Sex: Female Episode #9, a woman indicates her lack of self-confidence due to weight gain led to a year and a half of no sexual contact between her husband and her. Initially she was furious with her husband for rejecting her, as she had gained weight due to pregnancy. Sure enough, after she lost the extra weight he was sexually attracted to her again. However, she now recognizes part of it had to do with not feeling sexy, thus turning him
