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5 Reasons to Have Sex Today!
By Veronica Peterson, Editor, Healthy & Green Living
What would Valentine’s Day be without an opportunity to mention the three-letter word that gets everyone so riled up? Yes, you guessed it–I’m talking about at a little S-E-X. So, let’s chat, shall we? Beyond being just one-heck-of-good-time, medical studies report that an active sex life contributes to a longer and more fulfilling life. So come on, everybody’s doing it (or at least the lucky ones), and here are five reasons for you to join in:
1. Sex boosts your immune system. “Honey, I have a headache,” may now be the best reason to have sex! A startling number of physicians are now recognizing how sexual and emotional health affect our entire well being. In other words, how our brain directly impacts our immune system. “We know that people who enjoy a regular, satisfying sex life (i.e. regular orgasms) are less stressed, less depressed and generally more well physically, mentally and emotionally,” says Wendy Strgar, loveologist and CEO of Good Clean Love. In a recent article, Dr. Paul Pearsall, director of Behavioral Medicine at Detroit’s Beaumont Hospital, concludes that many of his patients had experienced sexual dissatisfaction prior to a heart attack. He also claims that sexual contentment leads to less severe headaches and reduced discomfort from arthritis in both genders.
2. Sex burns calories. Oh yeah, forget those fad diets and get busy gettin’ busy. A mere 30-minutes of sex burns 90 calories and while that may not sound impressive, at an average of three times a week, you’re burning 5 pounds in a year! Or, according to Forbes magazine, having sex just twice a week for a year will burn off the equivalent of seven huge spaghetti dinners. Seconds, anyone?
3. Sex relieves pain. Orgasm is one serious narcotic! Oxytocin, a naturally occurring chemical in the body surges during and after climax while working in conjunction with a few other endorphins to make sure you feel no pain. In his book, How to Treat Arthritis, rheumatologist Carter V. Multz asserts that sex can reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation associated with arthritis, headaches and menstrual cramps.
4. Sex decreases aging. “Use it or lose it” has never been more applicable. Regular sex releases a plethora of “happy” chemicals into your bloodstream, including testosterone. As we age, our testosterone levels decrease. Sex is a wonderful way to build your reserves back up, helping build new bones and muscles while putting a youthful glow on your face. According to a study by Dr. David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung, men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.
5. Sex is great for depression. “The release from orgasm does much to calm people. It helps with sleep, and that is whether we talk about solo sex or sex with a partner,” says Jennifer Bass, the head of information services at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Bloomington, Ind., in a recent MSNBC article. Researchers believe that sex helps the brain produce serotonin which, in turn, prompts new neurons to grow. Most chemical, antidepressant medications, like Zoloft, work to increase serotonin levels. These drugs take three to four weeks to begin working–about the same amount of time required for new neurons to form. One reason these drugs could be an effective treatment is because they increase cell growth–just as sex does.
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In honor of St. Valentine, Wendy at Good Clean Love has donated three sets of, ahem, “fun products” for you to use with the one you love. Her Passionate Nights Gift Sets come beautifully wrapped and include a mood-setting candle, all-natural personal lubricant and massage oil. A $45 value! With her help you should be able to turn any night in to a passionate night. Just enter a comment below and we’ll pick three winners randomly. The winners will be announced Friday, Feb. 20. GOOD LUCK!
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add your comment »Hi All,
I was just surprised that how I am still alive! after reading "5 reasons to have sex"
I would kindly ask anyone who has experience, reply back to me,it would be appreciated.
I got married 3 years ago and my wife is Chinese.
We haven't really had real sex, I mean intercourse, because she was resisting for some reasons such as being more traditional person, so on.
I really love her and she does same.
In fact because of the business that she is runnning in China, we haven't lived together continiuously during this two years, so I was really in trouble and I have been doing masturbation all the time and I am not a person who is willing to do sex with others while I have wife.
So, please anyone give me advice and tell me if my situation will put my health at risk.
By the way, I am an athlete guy and playing lot of sports, but I have a very bad immune system and taking antihistamine everyday since 3 years ago.
Thanks,
Simon
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it takes two and the energy from a mutual ? orgasm is powerful. But unfair to us males you gals can enjoy multi
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it takes two and the energy from a mutual ? orgasm is powerful. But unfair to us males you gals can enjoy multi
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Funny how people do not address the fact that sex for women is NOT the same as sex for men. For men sexual intercouse almost always results in orgasmic delight...which releases said endorphines and "happy chemicals", but for women sex does not always end in orgasmic delight and even if it is achieved it is normally not done so easily. So to be accurately correct people should be saying "have orgasms" not sex. I would LOVE to have orgasms every time I have sex, but as a female this is not the case, so of course I do not want to have sex as often as my male partner and he just does not get my point.
Sex is definitely over rated.
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Funny how people do not address the fact that sex for women is NOT the same as sex for men. For men sexual intercouse almost always results in orgasmic delight...which releases said endorphines and "happy chemicals", but for women sex does not always end in orgasmic delight and even if it is achieved it is normally not done so easily. So to be accurately correct people should be saying "have orgasms" not sex. I would LOVE to have orgasms every time I have sex, but as a female this is not the case, so of course I do not want to have sex as often as my male partner and he just does not get my point.
Sex is definitely over rated.
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My Comment to Helen Continued as it was cut short Callum
to discuss the meaning of Christian Love With Me! That Should Be Fun I guess there is a poem or two, or three or four in that question!
But if you wish to see were it started my own poetry if you click on the link below Poet & Friend Hans,
Virtual Tour
View Panorama
The Top Left Hand Side Picture Looking up to the altar that’s were John & I sat in the Church Choir.
http://www.stpeters-woolton.org.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=100
I have a very good writer friend, and Feminist Sally Cline, who has written an excellent book on book on celibacy called http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/celibacy.html by Sally Cline, Published by Andre Deutsch 1993, when I first read Sally’s book I was very deeply moved. I read it again last year and it moved me just as deeply. I personally think like you that sex is over rated, however I am puzzled by the many meanings of LOVE!
I am attaching a link to Sally’s Book http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/celibacy.html on a web page ‘ Sunshine for Women ‘ she writes:
"The fact that today women who choose to be celibate are finding that it may bring them more affection and friendship not less, that it may allow them to relate to men as whole human beings rather than merely as lovers or as enemies, that it offers them more autonomy, and busier, contented lives, is ignored. This interesting series of possibilities is
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Dear Helen,
I fully understand you and what you say about sex. My poem which I actually wrote in 1980 was to send to a childhood male friend who had written and sung a great many famous songs about ‘Love ‘ sadly he was shot in New York in 1980 and never received my poem. But I do believe there is a great joy in Celibacy, I am still in the same happy relationship with my wife as I was when I wrote the poem in 1980. In recent year our relationship has been celibate and its full of fun and happiness.
Here is some thing I wrote to a dear friend Artist & Poet, Hans who is coming to see me at Aarhus University Hospital during next few weeks as I go through my Radiation Therapy for a Lung Cancer Tumour, I am a none smoker but worked as a young man in ‘ Fungus Research ‘ in Denmark were we think my cancer stems from:
But I am feeling great at the moment and am getting my bag packed for my treatments next week and with drawing material, taped book, and tapes of poems and old & English Church Hymns, which I deeply love to hear but especially as they take me back to being a child again when I was in St Peters Woolton church choir, and Sunday school with my pal John, who sat as you know besides me always, and The Church Morning, or Evening song service, and the sunshine coming through the stained glass windows, and we both being naughty for talking during a boring sermon, on Christian love which we could make neither head nor tale of, or discussing wh
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Im sick of hearing how good sex is for people. I have been single for 6 years and does that make me sad. Be honest i dont think sex the be all and end all. I am beginning to feel i should be having a lot of it as it makes me young ha ha. How comes i look good and stay looking young if im not with a partner and does that mean i will grow old faster ha ha. Not everyone is having sex sex sex. Sex is not as wonderful as everyone thinks it is. Also not everyone has a partner or can find someone that easy. Wonder if im the only one not engaging in sex. Dont think so my sister is single and she also has lived without sex for years and we both are propably portrayed as sad. But we wont have sex unless we meet someone who actually is not a one night stand. ha ha does anyone understand me.
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I agree with Carolyn A
And agree with all the 5 points made by Veronica Peterson.
But could someone please tell me where to get this S E X ?
Smile :)
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Sex for Sex & Sex for all........
Thanks to Veronica Peterson
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