Wednesday, May 17, 2006
A sex a day keeps your years away
By Zosimo T. Literatus, R.M.T.
Breakthroughs
“Two things, Miss Martin, I adore,” wrote Langston Hughes in The Best of Simple. “One is some loving—and the other is some more!”
Indeed, if a little of what you fancy does you well, more of it does even better.
A recent study, led by David Weeks, shows that couples who have sex at least three times a week look more than 10 years younger than the average adult who makes love twice a week. Dr. Weeks is a physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Edinburgh, Great Britain.
The study involved more than 3,500 people aged 18 to 102 in Great Britain, Europe and the United States.
Results also show that people can benefit from working and socializing with younger, than older, people and from having younger partners. He found that a person’s genetic make was only 25 percent responsible for youthful looks, and behavior accounting for the remaining 75 percent.
Weeks, however, warned that it is a loving intercourse with a regular partner, and not promiscuous sexual activity, which gives the most benefit. “Casual sex,” he observed, “would bring a lot of the detrimental things to staying youthful, such as anxiety and the absence of security. Those things are both associated with a loss of youth.”
Pleasure and youth shared the same thing—chemicals that make people experience happiness. Pleasure generates the happy chemicals, and youth is its offspring. “Pleasure derived from sex,” explained Weeks, “is the crucial factor in preserving youth.” That is, together with the security and dependability found only in loving couples.
“Some people like sex more than others,” British poet Wendy Cope, author of the book Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, wrote in the poem Some People. “You seem to like it a lot. There’s nothing wrong with being innocent or high-minded. But I’m glad you’re not.” (For comments and suggestions, email to ztliteratus6046@lycos.com or text to 0927-979-3519.)
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (May 17, 2006 issue)
Write letter to the editor.Click here.
Join the Sun.Star message board.Click here. |
