More sex makes you happier, right? Well, up to a point, but people who make love once a week are the happiest, irrespective of gender, age or if they`re married or not, a new study suggests.
Making love less frequently can make you unhappier, but having sex more than once a week doesn`t add further to your happiness quotient, say researchers at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.
Despite the stereotypes that men want more sex and older people have less sex, there was no difference in sexual frequency and happiness between the sexes or across a range of ages, say researchers, who analysed responses in a survey that polled 11,285 men and 14,225 women in the US.
More important is the context of the relationship and whether there is closeness and intimacy other than sex, the researchers say.
Although we don`t need as much sex as popular myth suggests if we are to be happy, it is more important than money, say the researchers. There was a larger gap in happiness levels between people who had sex less than once a week and those who made love weekly than there was in income levels.
(Source: Social Psychological and Personality Science, November, 2015; doi: 10.1177/1948550615616462)
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