Regular sex cannot be underestimated as a factor for reducing stress, bolstering self-esteem and fostering feelings of intimacy and bonding between partners.
Couple making love
Not only can it help your general mood (thereby reducing stress), but studies show there are tangible ways sex slows down the aging process, fights disease and even heals wounds.
If you have not yet found an excuse to have sex, here are five.
1. Increase Intimacy and Improve Your Relationship
Sex and orgasms result in increased levels of the hormone oxytocin that helps you feel bonded to your partner, and better experience empathic connections.
2. Improve Sleep
After sex, the relaxation-inducing hormone prolactin is released, which may help you to nod off more quickly. The oxytocin, released during orgasm, also promotes sleep.
3. Improves Women’s Bladder Control
A strong pelvic floor is important for avoiding incontinence, something that will affect about 30% of women at some point in their lives.
Good sex is like a workout for your pelvic floor muscles. When you have an orgasm, it causes contractions in those muscles, which strengthens them.
4. Pain Relief
Sexual activity releases pain-reducing hormones and has been found to help reduce or block back and leg pain, as well as pain from menstrual cramps, arthritis and headaches.
5. Sex protects your heart. Scientists say that regular sex is one things that help raise the level of testosterone which is said to protect the heart.
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