Sex Is Good for a Man's Heart

Yahoo Odd News ^ | Thursday January 17 10:29 AM ET | Reuters

[vannrox]

LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent sex won't increase the chances of a heart attack in middle-aged men, research showed on Thursday.


Nearly 1,000 men aged 45-59 were recruited in and around the Welsh town of Caerphilly and tracked for 20 years..


A quarter said they did the deed at least twice a week, whilst one in five performed less than once a month. The rest came somewhere in between..


The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, concluded that there was no clear evidence of more frequent sex increasing the chances of a stroke..


Those who had sex less than once a month were more likely to suffer sudden death from heart disease, although the likelihood decreased as the men got older..


With the evidence in mind, the researchers concluded that, based on a lifetime of sex once a week (on average) for 50 years, only one in 580 men might die as a result of sexual exertions. .

[vannrox]

I'll have to tell my wife...

[alloysteel]

If this is true I will live to be 180....

[riverrunner]

I have been telling the wife that for 20 years must be working I am going strong.

[ken5050]

It's only true if you have sex WITH your wife....Middle-aged men who screw around outside their marriage often die "in the saddle" as it were....

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Sure worked for Magic Johnson. Never really thought about his name. Some sort of irony, eh?

[Cooter]

Didn't seem to work for Wilt Chamberlain...

[Registered]

I'll wait until I'm 45 before rendering a verdict ;-)

[N. Theknow]

The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, concluded that there was no clear evidence of more frequent sex increasing the chances of a stroke..

Strokes are needed.

[Billthedrill]

Those who had sex less than once a month were more likely to suffer sudden death from heart disease...

Yipes...I mean, for certain of us that's a really scary thou

[lambo]

My wife is apparently trying to kill me.

[TADSLOS]

I'm a dead man walking...

[alfa6]

I just have to ask...PHOTO...

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Map Kernow]

You really shouldn't have posted this without first finding for posting together with this article a report that sex (with men---important proviso) gets rid of cellulite in women or something like that.

Otherwise, how is this posting going to do any of us any good? There're plenty of 'em who want to see us keel over from heart disease....

JK :)

[KeyLargo]

Looks like we're stuck with Slick Willie for a long, long time.