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.
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You have not met my son. Manly but extroverted
Now, don’t argue with science...
I enjoyed this book “Self-Made Man”.
“Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man is a 2006 book by journalist Norah Vincent, recounting an 18-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a man and then integrated into traditionally male-only venues, such as a bowling league and a monastery. She described this as “a human project” about learning.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Made_Man_(book)#:~:text=Self%2DMade%20Man%3A%20My%20Year,a%20human%20project%22%20about%20learning.
Well it didn’t work out for Nelson Rockefeller.
Sexy? No, for obvious reasons.
Ugly??? Please ... don't be absurd.
Unfortunately, yes. I attended a seminary college my first year. One of the sisters was drop dead beautiful. She did go civilian at the campus pool however. All real, and all magnificent. To this I can, from sight alone, attest. Sister Whatawaist.
I’ll volunteer to help turn the tables.
It is bullshit. I’m a woman, almost 77 years of age. Had plenty of sex in my younger days to last me a lifetime. Gave me two sons who are in their 50’s now. Got divorced in 1978, dated until I was in my mid-40’s, then decided I didn’t care about putting up with someone else’s bad habits. I preferred my privacy and solitude instead. I’ve outlived everyone in my family. Only one of them lived to be 74. The rest died at ages 51, 69 and 73.
Sister Mary Louise, my 2nd grade teacher. Never understood how someone so beautiful ended up a nun.
I dream about some pretty hot-looking women. Almost every night. But I never remember the rest of it. Does that count?
Just sent this to all my concubines....
“Trust me babe. It’s for you own good.”
I have some flashbacks as well, NFHale. But, one must concede, no one educated by the teaching sisters ever seemed to suffer from ADHD, or any other of these current plagues.
I was thinking of that book. As I recall she ended committing suicide from her experiences.
So, I can tell women that they can’t live as I do because it would kill them.
Good for you.
There you go.
You were inoculated... frequently, at an early age.
She didn’t try to deal with alpha males and hard men, she stayed with the betas and in safe settings but she gave it an admirable effort and it is an interesting book.
It doesn’t have anything to do with introversion or extroversion.
Women live for their families and men live for their purposes. You give a man his purpose and he will not need anything else to be happy.
If you want to kill a woman, destroy her connectedness with her family. If you want to kill a man, kill his sense of purpose.
That’s why, if do a search of men and their purpose, you’ll get a hundred pages in a search engine on the topic, because it’s who men are.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=men+live+for+their+purpose&t=h_&ia=web
You don’t get the same oxytocin and endorphin release from a brisk walk.
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