9 Amazing Ways Sex Benefits Your Health

If you needed another reason, Tehrene Firman and Lisa Fogarty share nine amazing ways that sex benefits your health.

There are few free and safe pastimes that can make you feel euphoric, promote a more intimate relationship with your partner and boast physical and mental benefits. One of those pastimes? Sex! In fact, it's so good for you, someone would make a fortune if they bottled it up and sold it over the counter at CVS.

If you're enjoying a regular sex life, which Dr. Sherry Ross, OB/GYN and women's health expert, defines as having sex one to two times a week, you're increasing your chances of living a healthier and happier life. Read more

15 Science-Backed Reasons to Have More Sex

You should have more sex, according to science.

For healthy, consenting adults, sex can be great or even mind-blowing. But getting busy with a partner can also have some legit benefits beyond our brainwaves. Read on for more reasons to get it on (as if we needed ‘em)! Read more

Orgasms Are Better for Your Brain Than Sudoku

Forget crosswords or Sudoku: having an orgasm is more effective at giving the brain a workout, claims a leading neuroscientist.

It gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘brainteaser’.

Apparently orgasms give our brains a better workout than doing a crossword puzzle or a Sudoku.

The sensation increases brain activity across the whole organ whereas a puzzle activates only relatively localised regions, claims neuroscientist Professor Barry Komisaruk. Read more

Sexual Healing: The Top 10 Ways that Orgasms Benefit Your Health

Training for a 5k? Watching Hoarders reruns on Instant Netflix? Or if your exercise regimen is somewhere in between, take heart: Sex is aerobic activity, and it's great for cardiovascular health. Says Dr. Rachel Needle, a psychologist at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida, “One act of intercourse is the exercise equivalent of 30 minutes of jogging and walking nine holes of golf." The benefits have only just begun...

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A visit from Dr. Feelgood, a.k.a. an orgasm, releases endorphins that produce euphoria, pleasure, and occasionally uncontrollable laughter. (My friend’s dating a girl who goes “Heh, heh, heh” after she comes. Like the Hamburglar.) Read more

10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex

The health benefits of sex extend well beyond the bedroom. It turns out sex is good for you in ways you may never have imagined.

When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight. Yet good sex offers those health benefits and more.

That's a surprise to many people, says Joy Davidson, PhD, a New York psychologist and sex therapist. "Of course, sex is everywhere in the media," she says. "But the idea that we are vital, sexual creatures is still looked at in some cases with disgust or in other cases a bit of embarrassment. So to really take a look at how our sexuality adds to our life and enhances our life and our health, both physical and psychological, is eye-opening for many people."

Sex does a body good in a number of ways, according to Davidson and other experts. The benefits aren't just anecdotal or hearsay -- each of these 10 health benefits of sex is backed by scientific scrutiny.

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