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RedditEvery so often, research results at some reputable institute suggest that there is a god. First, it was the widely appreciated benefits of red wine. Now, from the New England Research Institute, comes evidence that regular sex is good for your heart, at least if you’re a man. The researchers, who followed more than 1,100 men for more than 16 years, found that men who had sex twice a week were as much as 45 percent less likely to suffer a dangerous cardiovascular event than those who had sex once a month or less.
Read an abstract of their research in the American Journal of Cardiology.
5:07 pm
Does the term “regular sex” include masturbation?
10:48 pm
Chicken or the egg? Maybe they get more sex because they are healthier and in better shape/look better to begin with. You might be harming the out of shape and overweight by having them seek out sexual activity that could kill them.
5:59 am
I think it says that it could be interpreted to mean that men who had sex twice a week had fewer cardiovascular events. In other words men in better shape had sex more often, so asking them about their sex life may be used as an indicator.
To quite an article:
“Men with the desire for frequent sexual activity and who are able to engage in it are likely to be healthier.
But sex in some forms has a physical activity component that might directly serve to protect cardiovascular health.
Also, men who have frequent sex might be more likely to be in a supportive intimate relationship and this might improve health through stress reduction and social support.
An earlier study at the National Cancer Institute in the US showed men who ejaculated through sex or masturbation at least five times a week were much less likely to get prostate cancer.
And sex once or twice a week in winter can boost the immune system and reduce the chances of catching colds and flu, according to researchers at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania.
They found it boosted levels of immunoglobulin A or IGA which binds to organisms that invade the body and then activates the immune system to destroy them. ”
From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6950548/Having-sex-twice-a-week-reduces-chance-of-heart-attack-by-half.html
11:51 am
I love markers. After the finding that people who carry fat around their middles are more prone to heart attacks, there was an increase in requests for liposuction. If people with short big toes live longer, it doesn’t mean that having a plastic surgeon shorten your big toes will lengthen your life.
12:52 pm
I wonder…would all of the analysts involved in this “research” be men??? And would they be the same “MEN” that decided the “g-spot” is a myth. Just goes to show, no matter what level of education, men are idiots. “hey ladies we’ve decided that you have no ability to REALLY enjoy sex…but WE do, so give us more and we’ll live longer” What for? So you can antogonize us even further? Geez, all you have to do now a days to call yourself a scientist is follow people around. Gentlemen, let’s leave the thinking to the ladies shall we?
4:50 pm
No. Did you not read the abstract? One of the researchers is a woman.
5:08 pm
I am a man and I know that the g-spot is not a myth. My wife enjoys it when I “play” with her g-spot. It has the same effect as gently touching the clitoris. Yes, g-spot and clitoral stimulation make for great foreplay.
6:03 pm
Yes, but they are much more likely to get hit over the head with a golf club!!!
4:58 pm
Why do some women get so upset about talking about men’s sex lives? More men die every year from prostate cancer than women with breast cancer…both are horrible…one has the Susan G Koleman foundation…one is just old men dying. How politically correct can we be…when we are talking about preventable illnesses. I get annoyed that men should feel guilty for feeling they do not get enough sex…in most hetero relationships, they feel they don’t. Instead of denying…teach…ladies…teach!
5:06 pm
If twice a week cuts the risk in half, what about twice a day? Maybe I’ll live to be 100.
As for the G-spot, no doubt it exists. And the fact that a small percentage of women ejaculate is fact too.
My present lady, when properly aroused and stimulated “shoots right back at me”! Did someone say, “Dueling genitals?”
5:31 pm
Why so you can screw up more things like you have a long history of doing? This especially applies to AMERICAN women who are the absolute fattest, laziest, most selfish, whiny, dumbest creatures on this planet. Even Amelia Erhardt managed to get herself lost! Leave the thinking to people who can’t think at all? Maybe if you put out more than once a month, there’d be fewer divorces, murders, etc, etc???? remember: according to the Greeks, Zeus created women to PUNISH men and PANDORA was the FIRST woman. Need I say MORE???
12:54 am
d. said I,m tired , or once a month.Enough ,of the b.s.all women want is the insurance policy to live rich maybe when I die I will cut the insurance and put it in my kids name.We are humans , why should we be put off.I do a lot of things when I get home from work, pick the kids up, clean , cook and start their homework. Where is the thanks honey while my wife goes to school.
8:30 pm
i have been trying to tell my old lady that,but she says,so what??
12:21 pm
John…sure ya won’t see this… But thank you, that was more of my point on my post…Don’t try to say something that is isn’t then call it “research”. I was HIGHLY insulted by the whole “g-spot dsicounted study”. And I’m more apt to think like the first poster…obesity (the leading cause of heart disease) is a vicious cycle, that has nothing to do sex. A body in motion stays in motion, a body at rest stays at rest. The fit get more sex because they are in motion, the obese get less, because they are at rest.