ALL we want from our sex lives is to get at least as much as our
friends, research shows.
Boffins ... sex better than pals
Bonk boffins at the
University of Colorado examined how lovemaking frequency corresponds with
happiness.
And they found nookie
is like income, with most people being relatively pleased as long as they keep
pace with the Joneses — and ecstatic if they get a bit more.
Study author Professor
Tim Wadsworth discovered subjects reported steadily higher levels of happiness
the more action they were getting. But he also found that even after expressing
their satisfaction at their own sexual frequency, people who believed they were
shagging less than their peers were unhappier than those who believed they were
scoring more regularly.
Prof Wadsworth said:
“There’s an overall increase in sense of well-being that comes with engaging in
sex more frequently, but there’s also this relative aspect to it. Having more
sex makes us happy, but thinking that we are having more sex than other people
makes us even happier.”
Wadsworth analyzed
data from the General Social Survey, which has been taking the ‘pulse of
America’ since 1972. Respondents in all years are asked whether they are “very
happy, pretty happy or not too happy”. The findings are published in science
journal Social Indicators Research.
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