77. Adapted sex articles

There was this article on the Star yesterday regarding virginity and its link to health risks. Anyone read it? Who would've thought that being a virgin can also lead to health problems, eh?

To summarize. people who have sex at a younger and older than average age appears to be at greater risk of developing sexual health problems later in life. For those younger ones, more likely to have risk of STD, possibly due to the associated factor of possibly having more sexual partners and bla. The usual social stuff.

For the older ones, there's health risks by 'impeding development of the emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal skills that are crucial to satisfactory sexual functioning and general well-being'. Which can be translated to one would be a not so sociable, emo person?

On the age side, the average is 17 to 18. And from the article, young means 14 or so. Late starters are around 22. That's quite young isn't it? So much for the 40 year old virgin fella.

Does this explain why the older generation people of a few hundreds to thousands of years back like in ancient China who practiced arranged marriage don't have this sort of problems? Like cause they get married young, and presumably they have sex young too! So no sexual problems, cept for those who lost *it* to enter the palace.

On the other hand, in this month's edition of Reader's Digest, there's this tiny article on the exercise and sex. According to some other random research, how they did this research is beyond me though, having vigorous sex can burn off 130 calories per half hour! That's 2 kilo's per year with 135 lovemaking sessions, equivalent to about 2.6 times a week. But what would be their definition of vigorous? Wall-banging, bed-jumping, floor-thumping vigorous?

Worth it? Maybe. Since considering from one point of view, it's more fun than heading for the gym. Oh, there's also mention that frequent ejaculation (for males, duh) may help lower risk of prostrate cancer! It can also somehow help the heart, not stated how though.

So, with that many benefits, go forth and have sex, I'd say!