How Good is Sex for Your Health...

According to scientific researches, sex can help burn calories, reduce stress, reduce depression, relieve pain, reduce the risk of cancer and heart attack, reduce your risk of dying and even reduce the frequency of hot flashes in menopausal women.

Sex has really a beneficial impact on health overall, however the question that usually arises is: how can a man or a woman organize his or her sex life to derive maximum benefit? Is a series of one night stands as beneficial as a long-term partnership? What about small masturbation sessions, could they be as beneficial and safe as the conventional way of having sex?

According to  Stuart Broody, a psychologist at the University of the West of Scotland, has dedicated his career to the study of such questions, and in his 2010 report entitled “The Relative Health Benefits of Different Sexual Activities” concluded that vaginal intercourse is the form of sexual relationship that provides the best physiological results.

He supports this conclusion with data from a survey from 2009, involving nearly 3,000 people who reported that having vaginal intercourse provides a higher level of sexual satisfaction, health and well-being.

Despite the conclusion of this study, the benefits of other forms of sexual activity cannot be overlooked. A 1988 study found that genital self-stimulation increases tolerance to pain and produces an analgesic effect in women. Another study done in 2003 also found a link between masturbation and reduced risk of prostate cancer that the researchers associated to frequent of ejaculation. But a subsequent study failed to demonstrate the relationship between the two, and which surely grieved many men, eventually concluded that the risk of prostate cancer is not related to the number of times that a person masturbates.

Some studies also suggest a link between sex and breast cancer: one of them is a reduced risk of breast cancer in women who have had multiple sexual partners, but another found that women who have had children with many men do not have, unlike the one mentioned above, a lower risk of contracting the disease.

SOURCE: http://bizzfortune.com/