Posted: Oct 26, 2008, 1:10 PM CST
A team of economists from the US and Britain have finally finished a study which claims that having a good sex life is worth about $50,000 a year to the average person, while being married being almost as much as $100,000.
Their research involved interviews with almost 100,000 subjects and tried to establish what value people place on their sex lives and marriages.
"The financial values that we calculated are what it would cost to compensate someone for a happy marriage in money terms", said Dartmouth College economist David Blanchflower.
Their results showed that most people would need about an extra $50,000 in yearly income to equal the contentment they receive from their sex lives. Sex psychologist Perruska Clarson added," I think that figure is an underestimate. Sex reduces stress, increases our immune system and reduces pain. Regular sex improves not only your physical health but your mental health." (Sunday Times)
HOWEVER, ON THE OTHER HAND, we have this side:
A German study has found that having an affair can be deadly for men...
Not because their wives might have them killed if they found out, but because men are about twice as likely to die during sex with their mistresses than with their wives.
Research done at the Centre For Forensic Medicine in Frankfurt studied over 30,000 deaths covering the last 30 years and have found that 60 men had died during sex, almost all by heart attack. While only one in four died in the arms of their wives, over half of them died during an unfaithful fling and the rest died during masturbation.
While one possible explanation may be that the added stress of having sex during an affair may have caused the heart attacks, but the researches' only conclusion was that the men were trying harder to impress their extra-marital lovers and that extra effort caused enough strain on their hearts to kill them...
Talk about the old routine of 'dying with a smile on your face'!
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