why you should have sex once a week

(and no more than that!)

Leave it to our editor Liesbeth to always write about the most dumbfounded and bizarre things in the world of sex. But just for this once, the torch has been handed to me to enlighten you all about what scientists believe to be the proper amount of times you need to do the dirty deed #happywifehappylife.

Now I’m not going to be throwing my personal sex life out in the open, however having sex once a day doesn’t sound like torture now does it? When you have time for it anyway. Especially when it’s with your own partner. I mean, there is a reason you chose him or her right? Anyways, according to a couple of scientists, having sex no more than once a week is plenty.

a lot of sex makes you happy

Three entire studies have been dedicated to this whereby thousands of people were followed for roughly thirty years. Let’s start off with the good new. Sex makes people happy. The more they have, the happier they will become and the more they’ll enjoy their relationship. And having sex makes you lust for even more sex. Let’s just call it an upward spiral.

sex makes you happier than money does

Another useful thing to know. One of the researchers (misses Muise from the University of Toronto) studied couples who yanked up their sex frequency from once a month to one a week. This made them happier than when their paychecks raised from 25.000 pounds to 50.000 a year. So we’d rather have sex 52 times a year than 12 Chanel bags.

once a week max.

So now you’re probably thinking; the more, the better. But don’t become gullible from all the stories your man may be telling you because male sex drives will always be higher than ours. When couples ‘made love’ more than once a week, the unhappier they became. They felt a rise in pressure which resulted in a unsatisfying ‘deed.’ Once a week is apparently the perfect amount.

Frustration

For a lot of women, sex often ends up on the end of the list of things they should be worrying about. They have lunch boxes to fill, orders that still need to be finished and papers to sign for their kids’ school. So excuse us if our minds aren’t focused on sixty-nineing or the amazon. A male fashion friend of mine once said: “Just stare at the ceiling and fantasize about that Chanel bag.” It’s not that we’re not in the mood, it’s just hard to mentally find the space to clear our heads for it. According to the scientists, we have to get rid of that frequency mentality. All it’ll do is hinder you.

Just have fun, have sex and be happier. Before you know it, you’ll be doing it more often.