SEXIS WRONG

comfort and pain melted away. I made sure to complete the
sexual therapy with an orgasm (well, actually it was two orgasms!)
to ensure a complete healing. Afterwards, I worked
on my article for four hours, then had dinner with friends that
night. Bye-bye, virus!
all mucosal linings of the body and in the blood, is the most
prevalent of the five major antibodies that work as part of
the body’s defense mechanism against disease. The general
function of one’s immune system can be inferred by measuring
IgA levels.
Sex Is a Healer
How can sex be such a healer? Low-to-moderate intensity
exercise, such as what we get when we have sexual intercourse,
is one explanation for an improved immune system. It
has been proven that endurance exercise triggers neutrophil
(the powerhouses of our immune system) activation and also
helps them to do a better job protecting our bodies.
David Nieman, D.H.Sc., chair of the Department of Health
Science at Loma Linda University in Southern California, assigned
fifty non-exercising women to one of two groups. Half
continued their sedentary ways, while the other half took
brisk walks for forty-five minutes a day. (By the way, brisk
walking burns approximately four calories per minute, and
sex with an active partner burns approximately 4.5 calories
per minute.) After fifteen weeks, the exercisers reported only
half as many days with cold symptoms.
Another reason sex helps with immunity is because
of the hormone oxytocin, utilized to help
process white blood cells that work to engulf
foreign particles (such as bacteria, viruses, allergens,
and carcinogens) that invade our bodies.
Normal levels of oxytocin help stimulate these cells to
work harder. For example, it is a known fact that women who
breastfeed their young have a much lower incidence of breast
cancer. The stimulation of the nipple and the cuddling with the
infant produce high levels of protective oxytocin. As we now
know, we can prompt our bodies to produce more oxytocin by
having frequent orgasms and even by having loving or lustful
thoughts. And if you’re lucky enough to have a lover who is
lactating, drinking her milk will improve your immune system
and help you build more lean muscle mass because of the high
level of immune-boosting substances and growth hormone.
Frequent Sex = Stronger
Immune System
According to a study conducted by Carl J. Charnetski, professor
of psychology, and Francis X. Brennan, Jr., assistant
professor of psychology, both at Wilkes University in Wilkes-
Barre, Pennsylvania, it seems that persons who engage in
frequent sexual activity (once or twice per week) have substantially
higher levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A
(IgA) than those individuals who have sex less than once per
week or who have no sexual activity. IgA, which is found in
In the study, IgA was measured in saliva samples obtained
from a group of male and female undergraduate students.
The researchers asked those students about their sexual
encounters that included some sort of genital contact with
a partner, length of their relationships, and their satisfaction
with their sexual relationships.
The collected data revealed four distinct classifications of
sexual frequency: no sexual activity, infrequent sexual activity
(less than one occurrence per week), frequent sexual activity
(one or two occurrences per week), and very frequent sexual
activity (three or more occurrences per week). The researchers
found that the concentrations of IgA were approximately
one-third higher in the frequent group as compared to all other
categories, including the very frequent group.
So, according to this study, we shouldn’t get greedy when it
comes to planning our coital calendars. This particular study
Being sexually driven and satisfied
helps to keep our hormones
balanced so that our bodies can be
as robust as possible.
shows that sexual activity (with genital contact with a partner)
once or twice per week appears to be the optimum frequency
in order to have a stronger immune system. Personally, I think
I do better healthwise with a slightly higher quota of orgasms
per week. They didn’t mention the positive effects of masturbation
in this study, but we’ll get around to that!
An Orgasm a Day Keeps the
Doctor Away
Twice a week doesn’t seem like enough sex for you, either?
Here’s a study that will impress the pants or panties off of
you. Scientists at the Department of Social Medicine, University
of Bristol, performed a study on the relation between frequency
of orgasm and mortality. They studied 918 men aged
forty-five to forty-nine and followed up on the study until all of
the men had died. The results showed that the mortality risk
was 50% lower in the group of men who had high orgasmic
frequency than in the group with low orgasmic frequency. In
other words, the more orgasms, the lower the mortality; the
fewer orgasms, the higher the mortality.
At the point when the group’s number of orgasms equaled
100 per year (twice a week), the death rate was significantly
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