Let’s put on our leg warmers and take a trip to 1980s-ville, shall we? The year is 1987, and George Michael’s I Want Your Sex had just hit the airwaves. The Flagship Censorship was in overdrive. Meanwhile, tweens (before they knew they were tweens) were singing “Sex is natural, sex is good. Not everybody does it. But everybody should!” Sung, of course, without really understanding what it all meant.
The result of George Michael’s romp on the airwaves? A certain segment of impressionable minds, now aged like fine wines, subconsciously can’t help but remember that “sex is natural, sex is good, not everybody does it, but everybody should.” But are other age groups still getting some? About 75 percent of teenagers have intercourse by the time they turn 20. Within a marriage, 44 percent of couples are “fully satisfied with their sex lives.” Further, those who are 65 and older are still getting down and dirty between the sheets.
So people are doing the deed in droves. And the good news that just keeps getting better? There are many reasons to spend even more time between the sheets.
1. Sex helps relieve pain.
Sex releases the fun-time hormone, oxytocin. And as WebMD reports, “as the hormone oxytocin surges, endorphins increase, and pain declines. So if your headache, arthritis pain, or PMS symptoms seem to improve after sex, you can thank those higher oxytocin levels.” Beats taking a double dose of pain reliever any time.