What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

The Register (UK) ^ | 10 oct 06 | Dr Stephen Juan

[white trash redneck]

What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

Asked by Jill Howard of Alexandria, Virginia, USA

The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others. The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are:

• Sex helps boost the immune system. According to Dr Carl Charnetski of the Department of Psychology at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, people who reported one or two sexual "episodes" per week enjoyed higher levels of Immunoglobin A. This is an antibody that helps fight disease.

• Sex helps boost longevity. In one study cited by Dr Charnetski, men who had more orgasms over a 10 year period boosted their longevity compared with those who had fewer.

• Sex helps ward off cancer. In another study cited by Dr Charnetski, men who had more ejaculations over a 35 year period had 33 per cent less prostate cancer compared to those with fewer ejaculations.

• Sex results in a more youthful appearance. According to a study by Dr David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung (1999), men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.

• Sex helps reduce stress. Numerous studies show that it does this through lowering anxiety levels, boosting relaxation, and aiding sleeping.

• Sex helps fight depression. A study by Dr Gordon Gallup of the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany found that women who regularly engage in heterosexual sex in which they come in contact with semen were significantly less depressed than those women that did not. he causal relationship is unclear. Dr Gallup speculates that "possibly because when absorbed through the vagina, semen may have an effect on mood in women". However, Dr Gallup is quick to point out: "Regardless of the findings, this study does not advocate that people abstain from using condoms. Protecting oneself from an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease is far more important."

• Sex helps coping with middle age. This is the inference drawn from research by Dr GA Bachmann at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey and published first in 1995 in the International Journal of Fertility and Menopausal Studies and continuing in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2006.

• Sex is good exercise. Exercise helps circulation, lowers cholesterol, and releases helpful endorphins.

• Sex helps in losing weight. Well, at least a little. One burns approximately four to five calories per minute or perhaps 300 calories per hour during sex (depending upon how, shall we say, "vigorous" the sex is). About 7,000 to 8,000 excess calories must be burned to lose one kilogram of fat (3,500 to lose one pound). You do the calculations.

Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney.

[GOPJ]

Thanks. Have you seen the Zucker ad? It's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h3GPc_yMCE You'll love it.

[brwnsuga]

The West is disappearing because of people who have disconnected sex from its God-given purpose

I thought G-d wanted man and wife to enjoy each other's bodies. Why else would he have given woman a clitoris, which serves no other purpose other than pleasure? Ofcourse he wanted us to be fruitful and multiply, but sex is a way of confirming in the natural, the SPIRITUAL union of a man and wife.

[RandallFlagg]

I have a bunch on my computer at home, but I'm not at home and might get in trouble if I post 'em from here.

[Pyro7480]

I just watched it on Hotair.com, and I thought it was hilarious. Thanks for the YouTube link. The moonbats are already there.

[Nihil Obstat]

Yemen's birth rate is 6.58 children per woman. Yemeni's are hardcore too.

[ArrogantBustard]

Czarnicky posted his incomplete research on this thread.

I called him on it.

So far, he has refused to complete his research.

That's his problem, not mine.

If, as, or when he chooses to post complete fertility rate statitics of Western and islamic countries, then we will have something to discuss.

Until then, his crowing about being the skunk in the rose garden is true ... just not in the way he meant it.

[Killborn]

Where do I begin?

Let's see...

1) "Sex makes you live longer, healthier, wealthier, smarter, wittier, burns fat, better speaker, reduces mortgage loans, makes your favorite sports team win, blah blah blah..."

Yes, that's all well and good. But what about love and procreation? Seems conveniently ommitted doesn't it?

2) In regards to demographics and dhimmitude, what's the point of having ten citizens who will be brainwashed into multiculti socialist stupidity? Minds are more important. I'd rather have one sharp mind than 10 warm bodies. Nineteen men killed 2996. Three countries took on the whole world and nearly won. A tribe with spears repelled the Italian army. One man decimated 96 soldiers, officers, and even a general. Numbers don't matter. Minds and ideas do. Ideas are contagious. Ideas can be instilled. Ideas cross cultures, race, and religion. Ideas, ideas, ideas. It's just the matter of implanting the right one. And that's what a "dumb Texan hick" and a mob of "babykillers" are doing in one of the most unstable and dangerous regions in the world today. That's what "dead white guys" did in a former British colony turned superpower.

3) Pushing an object the size of a watrmelon out off an opening the size of a lemon is going to hurt. I don't even have to be a woman to put two and two together an go YEOOOOOOOWWCHHHHHHH!!!! You ladies have my respect and admiration.

But what do I know. (TMI ahead)
















(TMI) It's not like I had any.











(TMI ends)

:)

[LauraleeBraswell]

"There is no practical difference between using contraception and converting to Islam."

That statement made absolutely no sense.

[steve-b]

Your homework assignment was not completed. I give you an F.

[spunkets]

Re: If by civilization you mean the authoritarian ordering of the world,

"No ... I to the whole gamut of human interpersonal relationships ... government is only a small part of that."

In a democratic order, that whole gamit is the order. The only way it's not is when the condition of freedom is instituted by law as the order.

[Pyro7480]

Ofcourse he wanted us to be fruitful and multiply, but sex is a way of confirming in the natural, the SPIRITUAL union of a man and wife.

No one, not even wideawake, is denying that. The problem is not pleasure during sex, but it is contraception.

[goodnesswins]

NO......she didn't even mention it as ONE of the reasons.....sheesh.

[ArrogantBustard]

Once again, he who purports to do the research is responsible for doing it right.

In my professional life, reviewing papers for publication is a necessary evil ... were I presented with one that includes the sort of half-assed incomplete data as presented in #331, I would simply reject it. It's not my job to do it right, merely to pass judgement on whether it was done right. In the case of #331 and following, my judgment is in the negative, and will be until I see a complete data set from the researcher.

[CzarNicky]

Czarnicky posted his incomplete research on this thread.

BZZZZT! wrong I have posted my complete research on the thread you have asked me for more data and I told you where you can find it. To date it seems you are more adept at pulling info out of your ass that actual research. there is a whole Internet out there. Discover it. BTW Code Lyoko is on and I do not wish to miss it.

[ArrogantBustard]

I have posted my complete research

No, you have not. You have posted a grossly incomplete data set, and pretended that it means something. It means nothing. It is incomplete. You continued refusal to post complete data is noted.

Good day, sir.

[billhilly]

Well, here I am at post 413, and frankly, it has not been very humorous. It is more like a war between the sexless and the oversexed, if you are to believe the people doing the posting.

Frankly, I would advise them to all go to bed and think about it. These online print shops can be addictive.

[steve-b]

Oh, puh-leeze. You made an assertion; a batch of counter-examples were presented (even though a single counter-example suffices to dispose of a general assertion).

You remind me of a perpetual-motion-machine inventor complaining that the tests of his device are "incomplete" because another run (and another, and yet another) could still be conducted.

[CzarNicky]

If you do not like the data post a refutation. I am not your errand boy.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

The problem is not pleasure during sex, but it is contraception.

What is wrong with contraception? So I should not have had a vasectomy so I would not have any more children I could not afford. Since I can not have anymore children, I as a human should not be able to enjoy sex?

You would not happen to handle snakes at church would you?

[ArrogantBustard]

Post the data for the various countries in the Arabian Peninsula, for the various countries in North Africa, for the various islamic countries along the east and west coasts of Africa, for Pakistan, for Indonesia ... similarly post the data for western Europe, UK, Canada, ...

Until you or your friend have done so, you have posted nothing of value.

Good Day to you, too, sir.