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And 2, are you talking to yourself?
NUT FAR, I GOT HURR LAST AND DESERVE IT MORR.
DO PPL IN ORGASM-DENIAL RELATIONSHIPS HAVE EVEN BETTER STRESS LVLS?
This makes sense, though. New Scientist had an article a while back about semen containing small amounts of what equated to an anti-depressant:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24…
You don't have to be monogamous to have one primary partner that you are condomless with.
I agree, more study needs to be done.
I'd be happy to volunteer my services as a spermgiver... For the sake of science.
Besides, you'll never be able to a fund a study that makes it's participants fuck random people without condoms because it's insane.
And if you're having sex outside of your relationship you're most likely not as mature and therefore don't deal with your stress well anyway.
So he obviously did control for relationship status, and protected/unprotected sex was still statistically significant.
Of course, the sample size might be too small or skewed, but we won't know that until someone replicates it.
Anyway, I came to the same conclusions as Dan - there are probably common factors. Since unprotected sex is more fun, I suppose there might be a little added causal boost, but I figure the relationships are more important than the sex, you know? Makes more sense.
jmahlon ... LTR relationships are the ideal when you come into them naturally. Forced LTR's are hell on earth. I'm always warry of people who either to judgemental to experience other people for who they are, and are instead passionately in love with their own romantic ideal.
It's not that the romantic ideal doesn't exist, buy you might surprised at the person who fills it.
Remember, there's a lot of primitive wiring you're responding to, and it wants to procreate (well, for those of us who are straight, and maybe some that aren't).
For me personally, while my standards for going au natural are not textbook, I do have some standards
Collin @5, I am completely tickled by and am stealing the Science Media Cycle chart.
Especially, when I'm surrounded by people who have crappy, compromised, or nonexistent relationships due to their career choices ... independent of their emotional maturity.
I do think people in Long term relationships generally have more sex, more access to sex, more satisfying sex in most respects, and obviously more trusting sex.
Lack of maturity aside ... sure the occaisonal random lay, or at best hook up friend, might get you through the lonely nights. But there is a tinge of stress when it comes to ... the inherant risks associated with sex.
But to indefinetly deny someone sex and companionship, for most human beings ... is denying the soul food.
Ideally, yes, however in practice I would not be so willing to bet on that! Its surprising how many people experience bed death after the "honeymoon phase" of the relationship is over.
But I don't think it's THAT bad. I just wonder about the frequency of sex, even with element of bed death.
I mean, nobody walks into the office and says ... wow, I had above average sex last night and for about 3 out of 5 the last nights. Your friend might say ... WOW, I got LAID last night, we did it like 5 times! And that will be all the action he has seen in the past 3 months and perhaps for the future 3 months.
But people will most certainly passive aggressively insert their lack of sex dissatisfaction, especially on the slog.
And of my single peers (and we aren't dogs!) ... we just aren't getting laid as often as one would think we are ...
I can't put numbers on it, I'm not a sociologist, I don't have all day to propose a study, get the funding and do the research.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the frequency of sexual acts is still on average relatively high in stable longish relationships, as is the nonuse of condoms.