Posted on 02/07/2012 7:31:00 PM PST by Vigilanteman
You can’t argue with the research…
The possible health benefits of sex are spelled out in a soon-to-be-published article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The editor-in-chief of that journal, Dr. Irwin Goldstein, says that when you read about the physical benefits of sex, “you can’t help but say, ‘Holy God! Sexual activity is a very important thing to do. Human beings were really meant to do this.’ ” Goldstein is also the director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, California.
In the article, which reviews several decades’ worth of studies on sex and health, researcher Stuart Brody concludes that penile-vaginal intercourse — and not other types of sexual activity — confer the most health benefits. For example, five years ago, Brody, now a professor of psychology at the University of the West of Scotland, asked 46 people to give a stressful speech to a nasty audience. . . . . The same wasn’t true for people who’d participated in other forms of sexual activities. Brody says “evolution strongly rewards behaviors that increase the likelihood of successful gene propagation, and only one behavior — penile-vaginal intercourse — is potentially reproductive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at getphysicaltoday.com ...
One afternoon two good ol’ boys over in a West Virginia trailer park were sittin’ around talkin’ over a cold beer after gettin’ off work at the local chicken plant.
After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, “If’n I was to sneak over to your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin’ and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?”
The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his haid, and squinted his eyes thinkin’ real hard about the question. Finally, he says,”Well, I don’t know about kin, but it would make us even . “
I was assuming, hoping, that his post was some arcane joke.
haha. Nully knows everything!
No, sadly even some conservatives think it is Godly to spend your whole life being horny!
I’m about to bust a gut! I damn near choked on my Doritos!
You can’t be conservative and a roybot. I should have picked up on it sooner.
Ok...let's just cut to the chase. On one side you have a healthy, Godly designed sex life on one side...and being a horn dog on the other. Where's the line? What's the frequency: times's / week or Times / month that God is getting at when He inspired the Song of Solomon?
In Your Opinion?
Could that be because people who have frequent sex are happily married?
Pretty much goes without saying.
However, it would be interesting to do a large population statistical analysis to see if the emphasis is on the sex or the happily married. :-)
No. Real love is giving to your mate. In fact married couples are ordered in the Bible not to abstain for any length of time.
And I don't know where you got the idea that having sex makes your wife hate you. Maybe if you are really bad at it?
In fact happily married not having sex generally happens when one of the pair is phyically unable.
This would lead to the conclusion that not having sex causes ill health in the happily married when the ill health is the cause of the lack of sex rather than the result.
Come on now people...as conservatives you should have enough commonsense t osee my point that there is a time and season for sex in marriage, but once that child bearing aspect of life is pretty much done with...then so should sex be! We were not made to keep on humping our wives forever ! Look at her mensrual cycle, how it ends at a certain time...about the same time that men should be becoming more Godly. Sadly few seem to find that.
roybot is the escape that most people have with me when I see through their ego problems. They cannot truly debate my points, they can only denegrade and make me seem unauthentic. Try again...that one did not work!
What’s to debate? As far as this subject goes, I have first hand experience. You and I are about the same age, except I’ve been married for 21 years. In healthy marriages, physical love doesn’t stop unless one of the partners becomes incapable.
Apropos to roosters... There was a farmer whose old rooster died. He went to a neighbor and asked "Do you have a young, strong rooster I could buy from you?" The neighbor replied "Well, you could have young Rocky there, he's always chasing the hens around." They concluded the deal and the farmer took Rocky back to his farm. Once in the barn yard, Rocky wasted no time in chasing down all the hens. The farmer thought to himself, "He sure wasn't kidding about that rooster" and went off to do his chores. The next day he passed by and the hens were all hiding and Rocky was chasing the ducks around the barn yard. "Wow, this rooster never lets up" the farmer said to himself. The next day he looked in and Rocky was frantically chasing the geese around the barn yard. The farmer was amazed. "That Rocky is going to work himself into an early grave at this rate" he chuckled to himself. The next day as he came in from the fields he noticed a pair of vultures circling above the barn. He rushed to the barn yard and saw Rocky sprawled motionless in the dirt. "Oh I knew it!" he cried, "You done worked yourself to death Rocky". Rocky opened an eye and whispered, "Shhhh, they're getting closer."
Dude. God made sex for a husband and a wife...and not just for reproduction. He made it for their mutual pleasure...all throughout their lives.
Seriously. If that works for YOU....OK. BUt just because it works for YOU...please don't take that as some sample of normalcy. It's not. There is a REASON the Apostle Paul said: "each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." (1 Cor 7: 2-6).
That verse THERE proves that sex in marriage is NOT just about procreation. It is a DUTY...and not just for reproduction....but to keep each other from burning with lust (mostly the man). There is no sunset clause in THAT verse. IT applies to 30 somethings...and 60 somethings. The number of marriages that have been destroyed because of unhealthy sex lives ARE LEGION.
You have it wrong. But if it works for you...that's fine. Just know it doesn't work normally like that for the rest of us.
huh... this might mean my ex is gonna kick it soon...
Ping!
Do you actually know any women? I mean personally? I’m questioning what planet you live on where post menopausal women hate men for wanting sex. Here in the really real world, post menopausal women often report that they not only still enjoy sex, but want it more often.`
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