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Good sex makes you better at your job: study
The Local ^ | June 4, 2009 | Laura Xiao

Posted on 06/06/2009 1:16:04 PM PDT by Bushwacker777

"A new Swedish study shows that a healthy emotional and sexual relationship can significantly reduce stress at work.

Ann-Christine Andersson Arntén is a psychology doctoral student from the University of Gothenburg. She conducted a five-year-long study on the effects of partner relations on work stress. Andersson Arntén said that people’s home lives can either help alleviate stress at work or push people over the edge.

“Either you come home to something that gives you a possibility to rewind and recover or you have a relationship that makes you more troubled,” she told The Local.

“If that’s the case than you cannot recover, and your whole system physically and mentally will become unbalanced. It will start to become more and more unhealthy and could end up in depression, anxiety, or sleeping problems.”"

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: jobperformance; sweden
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I would suspect this also has to do with one's emotional connections as well, not just physical. I know a guy who was totally out through hell by his nagging wife and was not able to get much done at work -- or anything else. However, when he started having a strong (non-sexual) friendship with a female work collegue he seemed to really enjoy work and started vlunteering for extra projects. His wife would still call him up all the time and yell at him but then he'd seem to recover fast once he talked with his friend. I am totally convenced that if he were not so religious the "emotional affair" would have grown into a sexual affair but it didn't. Eventually his relationship with his wife improved but I think it was because he started standing up to her once he gained more self-confidence.
1 posted on 06/06/2009 1:16:05 PM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777

Depends if you're screwing the boss. :)

2 posted on 06/06/2009 1:17:45 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Bushwacker777

Yes, sex isn’t usually the problem; it’s the living together part that’s tough.


3 posted on 06/06/2009 1:18:05 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Bushwacker777

Especially if you’re a prostitute.


4 posted on 06/06/2009 1:20:34 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Baldrick, to you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?")
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To: Bushwacker777

Shouldn’t we be seeing pictures of the Swedish Bikini Team to demonstrate a little of what the study was about?


5 posted on 06/06/2009 1:20:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Bushwacker777

I think you made a good point.


6 posted on 06/06/2009 1:21:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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To: Bushwacker777

Boxers?


7 posted on 06/06/2009 1:21:09 PM PDT by exist
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To: Bushwacker777

Sex with yourself or with someone else?


8 posted on 06/06/2009 1:21:17 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Bushwacker777
I've never had bad sex but some is sure more satisfying than other.

I comment on this a lot here but I found an exception to my usual rule about middle aged women.

I actually did meet a guy last Thursday who claims his wife wants too much sex in her mid 40s.

so it does happen I guess....first man I've ever seen say what I have found to be the opposite usually

sex is my greatest earthly pleasure...nothing really surpasses the intimacy with a dear wife.

but, it's women's power...as old as the ages

9 posted on 06/06/2009 1:22:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama .....you are not my friend. You are an enemy of this nation and my culture and traditions)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

http://www.instantrimshot.com/


10 posted on 06/06/2009 1:23:00 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Bushwacker777
Andersson Arntén said that people’s home lives can either help alleviate stress at work or push people over the edge.

Master of the obvious.

11 posted on 06/06/2009 1:23:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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this makes sense as to why Bill Clinton was such a crappy president and Monica such a great intern. She was the only one having sex.


12 posted on 06/06/2009 1:23:54 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: wardaddy

as a women nears menopause, it’s typical for her to want to have sex more and more. Probably an bio-evolutionary thing where her body is telling her the time to get pregnant is coming to an end so she better get it as often as she can to ensure she can pass continue life. I know these things because of the GOOGLE!


13 posted on 06/06/2009 1:25:55 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: Bushwacker777
“Good sex ....”

Sooo, what is “Good sex...” compared to just “Sex”???

Maybe it lies in the eye of the beholder. “Fox example, the worst sex I ever had was vunderful!”

14 posted on 06/06/2009 1:26:16 PM PDT by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My girlfriend after college put me in the latter category; I actually slept during lunch at work.


15 posted on 06/06/2009 1:26:36 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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I could get in such deep trouble if I commented on this, but I’ll behave...


16 posted on 06/06/2009 1:29:59 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: SatinDoll

Any two people can have a happy relationship. The only absolute essential is that each partner put the needs of the other first. For men that usually means ego gratification (through sex) and for women it usually means financial security and romance.
If Adolph Hitler had married Mother Theresa and they each put the other on a pedestal and the needs of the other ahead of all else, everything would have fallen into place. Adolph could have become docile and harmless so as to not worry his wife and Theresa could have learned to do what Adolph likes in bed. Too bad Eva Braun was not Mother Theresa.


17 posted on 06/06/2009 1:30:41 PM PDT by ConservativeOptimist (All things are possible if you only believe.)
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To: Bushwacker777

Do you need a partner?


18 posted on 06/06/2009 1:30:43 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Another cockamamie obvious study. I’m more pissed off because I didn;t meet the Swedish chicks who took the study.


19 posted on 06/06/2009 1:33:03 PM PDT by max americana
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Actually, I’ve noticed that the most successful marriages are those where both parties are each other’s best friend.

When a couple suddenly experience sexual problems, if they are otherwise in a close relationship, a search for a solution to whatever caused the problem will be sought without either adventuring into someone else’s bed.

Marriages based solely on “great sex” do not endure.


20 posted on 06/06/2009 1:36:09 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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