5 health benefits of sex, as if you needed any reasons to have more of it
Everyone knows that sex makes you happy, but from getting rid of stress to helping your immune system, it can improve your life in other ways too
Sex is probably the one thing that few people struggle to find motivation for. It’s certainly not exercise, which we all know is good for us but can be extremely hard to pull off every day.
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It’s more like chocolate or sunshine. More is usually better. But the fact that getting busy is fun may obscure the fact that it actually has tremendous health benefits.
Sexual healing. It’s not just a song. Here are five reasons getting it on is good for your health.
1. Joy of Sex
You didn’t need scientists to tell you that sex makes you happy, I’m guessing. Still it’s worth noting that researchers long ago established a link between having sex and feeling tickled pink with yourself and the world. As The New York Times points out, in a study of 1,000 women, the participants ranked sex as No. 1 of all the activities that made them the happiest. Scouring data from 16,000 American adults on money, sex and their happy place also led economists to conclude in a 2004 study that having sex once a week instead of once a month was roughly the same as having an extra US$50,000 in the bank. Ka-ching.
2. Sex banishes stress
As CNN notes, the act of having sex floods your brain with gobs of feel-good chemicals that naturally cut the stress hormone cortisol, which can wreak havoc on body and soul.