How bizarre is it that Fox News has become our go-to source for information on medical breakthroughs involving sex? Oddly enough, the famous conservative news source was the first outlet to tell us about a new study (ah, yes, one of those) showing all the many wonderful things sex does for the body. Some of them may actually surprise you-- and just because this is Fox we're talking about here.
Fox took their info from The Daily Mail, while we, in turn, mercifully condensed the epic story down to the most useful quotes. The article spotlights doctors at Nottingham University who want you all to have sex for the good of your health. And not the usual, "It clears the sinuses, you'll lose weight!" obviousness we've been digesting for decades. Among the benefits mentioned:
...increasing longevity to reducing the risk of erectile dysfunction and even heart attack...
Well, yes, one would think successfully completing intercourse decreases the risk of erectile dysfunction, but we see the point:
[M]en who kept up a regular sex life in their 50s were also at lower risk of developing prostate cancer
American research found that menopausal women who had sex every week
had estrogen levels twice as high as their abstaining counterparts.
'This may provide some protection against male osteoporosis.'
Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of
immunoglobulin A, or IgA, a substance found in saliva and the nasal
lining thought to help our immune systems fight colds and flu.
One of the largest studies on longevity and sex - conducted on Welsh
men - found that those who had sex less than once a month had double
the risk of dying prematurely than those who had sex twice a week.
There's bad news for us twenty- and thirtysomething sex fiends:
(Conversely, they found 'too much' sexual activity - more than 20 times a month - in the 20s and 30s could increase the risk.)
Guess we won't be getting laid tonight... not that we were planning on it anyway.
Via the Daily Mail.
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