Growing numbers of research studies support the basic argument that good sex, especially when combined with physical exercise:

• promotes longevity and good health
• helps you to look younger
• leaves you with a positive sense of psychological and emotional wellbeing
• helps keep relationships together

Can living longer be reason enough to take another look at the quality of your sex life? Will you approach your partner differently, after I’ve explained that ongoing good sex with your spouse promotes cardiovascular health, in both men and women?

This is breakthrough news! What more could you ask for? Who doesn’t want to live longer, especially if you can live better, bathed in the benefits of an intimate, loving, sensual encounter?

Sex and Longevity

Serious research on sexuality began in the U.S. in the 1950’s with Alfred Kinsey and his famous Kinsey reports. Kinsey reported that sex reduces stress, and that people who have fulfilling, satisfying sex lives are less anxious, less violent, and even less hostile.

One of the first longitudinal studies of aging began at Duke University in the ‘50s and reported in the December 1982 journal Gerontologist established a link between the frequency of sexual intercourse (for men) and the enjoyment of sex (for women) as a predictor for longevity. The Duke study of 270 men and women over a span of 25 years seemed to suggest that an active sex life has a positive correlation with longer life span. Researchers could not conclude whether people lived longer because of the benefits of physical exercise, an emotional connection, or both. A possible bias in the Duke study is the fact that healthier men tend to be more sexually active.