Posted on 08/05/2024 1:16:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
Women who have sex less than once a week may be more likely to die early than those who engage in more regular intercourse, according to the results of a new study. While this same impact was not observed in men, the researchers did note that more frequent sex reduces the chances of an early grave in both men and women with depression.
“Sexual activity is important for overall cardiovascular health possibly due to reduction of heart rate variability and blood flow increase,” write the authors. “Using findings from our study, we can infer that sexual activity, broadly defined, may ameliorate loss of function that can occur with age and the progression of disease,” they add.
To reach these conclusions, the researchers analyzed data from 14,542 individuals in the US, recorded as part of a national health survey conducted between 2005 and 2010. In total, 2,267 provided details of their sex lives, with 94.4 percent of those people claiming to get busy at least once a month, while 38.4 percent said they did so more than once a week.
Previous studies have indicated that the average US adult has sex 54 times a year – or about once a week – so the researchers decided to classify people into those with high and low sexual frequency, depending on whether they had intercourse more or less than once a week (52 times a year).
Overall, women with low sexual frequency were 1.7 times more likely to have died from any cause by the end of 2015 than those with busier sex lives.
Importantly, the study authors also noted that this effect followed a dose-dependent pattern, meaning that the less sex a woman had, the higher her risk of mortality became. And despite not finding the same response in men, the researchers were surprised to observe that intercourse appears to have a “modifying relationship” on the adverse health effects of depression in both sexes.
Indeed, after adjusting for confounding risk factors such as obesity, advanced age, and lower socioeconomic status, the authors found that people who suffered from depression were around three times more likely to die during the follow-up period if they also had a low sexual frequency.
It’s important to note, of course, that causation can’t be inferred from such correlations, although previous work has shown that people tend to experience improved mood and a greater sense of life purpose the day after having sex, which may contribute to improvements in depression and overall well being. These findings are in agreement with those of another small-scale study of Israeli adults, which found that having more sex was associated with better survival odds in people who had suffered heart attacks.
Overall, then, the study authors stop short of announcing that a weekly shag could save your life, but on the basis of this evidence, it certainly can’t hurt.
The study has been published in the Journal of Psychosexual Health.
“It increases the heart rate and blood flow, you use various muscle groups across the body, often a good sweat develops...”
Same for a 5-10 minute walk, particularly if brisk. By itself, statistical noise compared to all else we do each day, including diet, exercise, medicine, etc.
Or living in an assisted living center......
There used to be a rumor in our tow that there was a heavily used tunnel running from beneath the nunnery to the the basement of the guesthouse used for priests and vicars across the street.
The professor, to get a statistical number, asked his class how many of them had sex at least twice a week.
Over half the students’ hands went up.
He then asked how many had sex only one a week and saw less hands.
Then, he asked how many students have sex only once a month surprisingly saw a few hands went up.
Not expecting a response, he asked if anyone had sex only once a year, and an odd kid in the back raised his hand while snickering uncontrollably.
Frowning, he said, ‘If you only have sex once a year, why are you laughing?’
And the boy said, ‘Because tonight’s the night!’
On the other hand it also prevents deadly diseases like AIDS. This was probably written by a pervert
After all that verbiage, they didn’t even give any ages at which people would prematurely die.
This was about as worthless as a weather report.
There was the rather portly Ron Jeremy.
Pretty much fried upstairs from the few press reports I remember seeing.
Yeah. correlation, causation..... the same could probably be said of doing yardwork, but nobody wants to read that.
My wife will never believe this.
There are usually ugly too. Ever seen a really good looking nun?
“Just another attempt to turn our culture even more Sodom and Gommorahish than it already is.”
Yep, most of the people in this country are obsessed with what’s in their pants and the perverse things they can do with it.
“”And despite not finding the same response in men,…”
Damn! So I can’t say “Babe your killin’ me?
Re nuns:
Sister Helen Most Homicidal was about 599 years old, Sister Mary Murderous was close behind… both could throw a history book with … righteous … accuracy.
It would flip open the exact moment before it hit… like dive flaps on a Douglas SBD-5 Dive Bomber…
Brrr… flashbacks…
Hey, it was not my fault he was usually too tired.
Also a story in one of the Chick Books.
Women need socialization more. That’s one thing that women, trying to be men, found out. Just how lonely it is to be a man.
Men are required to be lonely, because their function than from a woman. Men live their purpose and that purpose requires time to be alone in order to accomplish it.
Monogamous sex.
But they left that bit out, didn’t they.
No, they got paid.
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