Study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University that sought to ascertain whether there was a “positive correlation between sexual frequency and happiness” provided researchers with some surprising results.
The scientists found that happy people are happy by nature — regardless of whether they are having frequent sex or not — and for some couples frequent intercourse actually decreased happiness and lowered their sexual desire and enjoyment, reported CBS San Francisco.
To find out if sex boosts happiness, lead researcher George Loewenstein and his colleagues recruited 70 heterosexual married couples aged between 35 and 65 and instructed them to have more sex.
To take part, the couples’ current frequency of sex had to lie somewhere between once a month and three times a week. The simple instruction to the couples was to double their usual frequency for the next 90 days.
“Perhaps being in the experimental treatment changed couple members’ construal of sex, from a voluntary activity engaged in for pleasure to a duty, engaged in at the behest of the experimenter,” the researchers wrote, according to the Minnesota Post.
Loewenstein told the New York Times, “It seems that if you’re having sex for a reason other than because you like and want sex,” you may undermine the quality of that sex and your resulting mood.
Indian American researcher Tamar Krishnamurti helped design the study and told CBS the findings could actually aid couples in understanding how to stay happy over time, as their desire to have sex naturally starts to wane.
“Instead of focusing on increasing sexual frequency to the levels they experienced at the beginning of a relationship, couples may want to work on creating an environment that sparks their desire and makes the sex that they do have even more fun,” said Krishnamurti.
2 Comments
Sex is very natural we think we feel very satisfied after doing the same.
No one should have any wrong intension here, aim is to have pleasure whether one is male or female, what do you say here
people ejoy this exercise, we hope daily sex make them more fit