Ejaculation Control Health Part 10: Is Sex good for your Heart?
Ejaculation Control and Mental, Spiritual, and Physical Health Part 10: Is sex good for your heart? The Caerphilly cohort study
From the Abstract:
Objective: To examine the relation between frequency of orgasm and mortality.
Study design: Cohort study with a 10 year follow up.
Setting: The town of Caerphilly, South Wales, and five adjacent villages.
Subjects: 918 men aged 45-59 at time of recruitment between 1979 and 1983.
Main outcome measures: All deaths and deaths from coronary heart disease.
Result: Mortality risk was 50% lower in the group with high orgasmic frequency than in the group with low orgasmic frequency,
Conclusion: Sexual activity seems to have a protective effect on men’s health.
Men aged 45-59 years were asked by a medical interviewer in a clinical setting about their frequency of sexual intercourse. The responses were reduced to three categories: less than monthly; twice a week or more; and an intermediate category. Men who fell into the “sex two times a week ” category had half the risk of dying from heart disease than that the men who said they had sex only once a month.
The authors dryly note that “Intervention programmes could also be considered, perhaps based on the exciting “At least five a day” campaign aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption—although the numerical imperative may have to be adjusted. The disappointing results observed in health promotion programmes in other domains may not be seen when potentially pleasurable activities are promoted.”*
Interestingly, Gary W. Berger, M.D., a rural American physician wrote to the British Medical Journal with feedback from some of his female patients: “I was caught completely off guard by their response. I was informed in no uncertain terms that if their husbands were ever made aware of this article or given a copy, I would have a very unhappy patient on my hands. I have since taken a random survey of several more married female patients and hospital employees, and have found almost unanimous agreement with the sentiments of my initial group of patients.”
Do country women really hate sex that much? Or do they just really prefer their men to be short-lived? © 2009 Keith E. Hall / Inner-tranquility.com. All rights reserved.
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