Having an active sexual life promotes happiness and well-being in the couple But how many times a week do you have to make love for it to have a beneficial effect on the relationship? A recent study suggests that increasing sexual frequency as a couple has a positive effect… but up to a limit.
Therefore, to maintain stability in a couple it is not necessary to have sex every day, that is, sex is important but more is not always better.
Many agree that a happier couple is one that is more passionate and has sex several times a week, but past research had not yet concluded the amount of sex that was necessary to have a more satisfactory relationship.
How much sex is necessary to be happy? The more sex you have, the happier you are as a couple? This is what a group of researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga in Canada proposed, and to try to verify if these hypotheses were correct, they used a sample of 30,000 people.
The researchers analyzed data from three studies
To extract the results, the researchers analyzed data from three studies.
In the first of them, the researchers analyzed data from a survey carried out in the United States, which was answered every year from 1989 to 2012 by subjects aged between 18 and 89 years. The participants answered questions such as the frequency with which they made love per week (from one to four) or their perception of happiness.
In the second study, the researchers conducted an online survey that was answered by 335 people, most of them heterosexual. Finally, analyzed the results of a third study that lasted 14 years also performed by American couples.
The results of the study and its conclusions
Following the results of the study, the researchers concluded that For the members of the couple, sexual practice increases its benefits until one session per week is reached From there happiness stops growing.
The new research has been published in The Journal Social Psychological and Personality Scienceand Amy Muise, the director of the research, explains to the Huffington Post magazine that: “In general it is important to maintain the sexual connection with the romantic partner, but it is important to have realistic expectations about sexual life, taking into account that many couples They are busy with work and responsibilities.”
Additionally, Muise concludes that “for busy couples with work responsibilities and children to care for, the pressure to have sex as often as possible can be stressful.” The expert with extensive experience in research on sexuality issues also states: “Sex is good, but more sex is not better. “Our research suggests that couples do not need to have sex many times a week, instead they should work on other aspects of the relationship to maintain connection with their partner.”
Sex is more important than money
Respondents also made it clear that Sex was one of the priorities of the relationship, even ahead of money Therefore, sex is associated with happiness more than money, since in the second study of the three that were carried out, the subjects were asked about their annual salary.
Regarding the couple’s level of happiness, for those relationships that had sex less than once a week, compared to those that made love once a week, there was a larger difference in the comparison than between couples who earned between $15,000 and $25,000 and those who earned between $50,000 and $75,000 a year.
Finally, it is important to highlight that There were no significant differences between age, sex or duration of the relationship And the research also did not verify whether there was a cause-effect relationship between the frequency of sexual relations in the couple and satisfaction in the relationship, but rather that there was simply a correlation between both variables.
