"SEX! Now that I have your attention..."
Jan. 14th, 2004 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxGo pick up a copy of the January 19 issue of Time magazine. The cover article is "How Your Love Life Keeps You Healthy".
"Studies are showing that arousal and an active sex life may lead to a longer life, better heart health, an improved ability to ward off pain, a more robust immune system and even protection against certain cancers, not to mention lower rates of depression, reports Alice Park in TIME's annual health special. Research is pointing toward oxytocin, which may be the key lubricant for the machinery of sex, reports TIME."
Literally half the dang issue has articles on sex, sexuality, desire, relationships, the psychology of relationships, and a section on BDSM and bondage and sexual acts throughout the ages. There's an idea that if you have sex enough, you'll be happier, healthier, and you'll live longer. I'd discuss some here but honestly I'd need to quote the whole friggin issue.It talks about why nature wants us to have sex as much as possible, as early on as possible--not just to produce healthy long-lived offspring, but to draw us closer together in the hopes that we will stay together to raise healthy, long-lived offspring. Plus, it feels good and it's good for overall health.
It supports my notion that organized religions that supress and ban and hiss at sex produce followers who are (sometimes) repressed and mentally off-balanced because their biological, chemical, evolutionary and natural instincts have been squashed in favor of masturbating to the big daddy in the sky. I honestly don't mean to snap off people's heads or upset anyone (sorry if I do), but I find that whole "sex is a sin" theory utterly preposterous, stupid, ridiculous, and illogical. Yes, yes, I know that sex inside marriage is all good and such and yay for reproduction, but the attitudes toward sex in general...I mean, my god, you can't even say "penis" in a church without causing someone to hyperventilate.
Anyway... the main message is: Sex is good. Keep having it.
"Studies are showing that arousal and an active sex life may lead to a longer life, better heart health, an improved ability to ward off pain, a more robust immune system and even protection against certain cancers, not to mention lower rates of depression, reports Alice Park in TIME's annual health special. Research is pointing toward oxytocin, which may be the key lubricant for the machinery of sex, reports TIME."
Literally half the dang issue has articles on sex, sexuality, desire, relationships, the psychology of relationships, and a section on BDSM and bondage and sexual acts throughout the ages. There's an idea that if you have sex enough, you'll be happier, healthier, and you'll live longer. I'd discuss some here but honestly I'd need to quote the whole friggin issue.It talks about why nature wants us to have sex as much as possible, as early on as possible--not just to produce healthy long-lived offspring, but to draw us closer together in the hopes that we will stay together to raise healthy, long-lived offspring. Plus, it feels good and it's good for overall health.
It supports my notion that organized religions that supress and ban and hiss at sex produce followers who are (sometimes) repressed and mentally off-balanced because their biological, chemical, evolutionary and natural instincts have been squashed in favor of masturbating to the big daddy in the sky. I honestly don't mean to snap off people's heads or upset anyone (sorry if I do), but I find that whole "sex is a sin" theory utterly preposterous, stupid, ridiculous, and illogical. Yes, yes, I know that sex inside marriage is all good and such and yay for reproduction, but the attitudes toward sex in general...I mean, my god, you can't even say "penis" in a church without causing someone to hyperventilate.
Anyway... the main message is: Sex is good. Keep having it.
