Who says sex equals happiness?
Maybe your attached friends when they try to rub your single status in your face – but not a recent study.
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that increasing your sexual activity could actually make you more miserable. The study included at least 128 – aged 35 to 65 – couples and their sex life.
In order to test for all variables, some couples had to double the amount of sex they’d normally have in a week, while others had to reduce it. Their happiness was then tracked for three months.
Participants responded to questions online about their health, behavior, happiness, and how much they were enjoying getting busy beneath the sheets. They were asked to hold nothing back; everything down to the positions they chose.
The results?
Those assigned to have more sex reported being a little less happy. We mean, it makes sense; sex loses its entire appeal when it’s forced.
Researchers agreed: they think it’s because the subjects were instructed to do something rather than let it happen necessary. And – let’s be honest – just because you have sex more frequently doesn’t increase your sexual desire or enjoyment.
But before you become celibate, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a relationship between sex and happiness. Indeed, there is a positive relationship between the two, who say that being happy could inspire more sex, or that being healthy could make you happier and lead to more sex.
But simply increasing the frequency of sex with your partner isn’t necessarily going to cut it. You need to be inspired to do so first (so you can blame your partner).
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