Posted on 01/27/2006 10:11:47 AM PST by dukeman
PAISLEY, Scotland - Research has long confirmed the health-promoting benefits of sexual intercourse. By strengthening the emotional bond between spouses, regular sexual intercourse has been shown to reduce the risk for heart attack by up to 50% in some studies. A new UK study adds to those findings revealing that only heterosexual intercourse - not homosexual sex or self abuse - has significant stress-reducing effects, as measured by blood pressure responses to stressful situations.
The research conducted by Dr. Stuart Brody from Paisley University is summed up by its title: "Blood pressure reactivity to stress is better for people who recently had penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) than for people who had other or no sexual activity." Published in the February issue of Biological Psychology, Brody found that blood pressure measured during stressful periods - such as after public speaking or doing "verbal arithmetic" - was significantly reduced in those who had "PVI" within a two-week period. Those who had engaged in the abnormal sexual practices had no alteration of their stress response. On average, a 14 point (systolic) reduction in blood pressure was observed in those who engaged in "PVI" before a stressful event.
"The magnitude of the sexual behaviour effect on BP reactivity is greater than of other factors in the literature," his research stated. "The effects are not attributable simply to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm, but rather, endure for at least a week," he added, as reported by New Scientist. Brody speculated that oxytocin, the "pair-bonding" hormone, released between heterosexual partners may be the reason for the calming effects.
Adding to this have been other reports confirming that not only is heterosexual sex more beneficial than other sexual practices, those benefits are most pronounced among couples in committed, life-long marriages.
A 100-page report, by Dr. Matthew D. Bramlett and his team at U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Hyattsville, Maryland, confirmed that married people, as reported in the Washington Times, "are likely to live longer, engage in less risky behavior, be more health conscious and have more satisfying sexual lives, higher wages and larger savings than unmarried people.
Keep guessing because you're nowhere near the truth. She knew my sense of humor when she married me almost 14 years ago and she hasn't let it affect her Saturday nights (or any other night for that matter) yet. She knows who butters her bread.
They had to do a study to prove this?
This is one instance of emphasis as to Western medicine has substantiated what the East has known for a long time...as to the Chi, it's long recognized that there is beneficial health events from heterosexual sexual activity and that there is detrimental (reduction of the Chi) effect by homosexual activity. Let's see...this also extends to male well being, in that it's supposedly also detrimental for males to engage otherwise, if I make my point here, other than heterosexual sexual activity: best for them to completely abstain if they are not involved in a heterosexual relationship, according to longstanding Asian understandings.
It's been established in Western medicine for a while now, however, that male homosexual activity is not a healthy practice and depresses the autoimmune system, among other effects.
You should know this stuff!!!
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Thanks for the ping...Ultra!
You should read this article also!
Most do.
Dammit, there isn't enough Viagra in the world to overcome that image.
Good point.
Pa->Yep, you can imagine Ward Cleaver admonishing his sons that way..
But then June was often heard telling her husband "Ward, take it easy on the beaver"
I'm beginning to wonder what she meant.
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