From The Register
The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others.
The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are:
- Sex helps boost the immune system. According to Dr Carl Charnetski of the Department of Psychology at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, people who reported one or two sexual “episodes” per week enjoyed higher levels of Immunoglobin A. This is an antibody that helps fight disease.
- Sex helps boost longevity. In one study cited by Dr Charnetski, men who had more orgasms over a 10 year period boosted their longevity compared with those who had fewer.
- Sex helps ward off cancer. In another study cited by Dr Charnetski, men who had more ejaculations over a 35 year period had 33 per cent less prostate cancer compared to those with fewer ejaculations.
So technically, masturbation could do the job as well? So the Church wants everyone to get cancer? hehehehe - Sex results in a more youthful appearance. According to a study by Dr David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung (1999), men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.
No wonder those from tropical countries look younger! Last time a woman tried to guess my age, she thought I was 4 years younger... does that mean I need MORE as it is? She was a fellow asian though, so I bet to a caucasian, I'd look 14 years younger - Sex helps reduce stress. Numerous studies show that it does this through lowering anxiety levels, boosting relaxation, and aiding sleeping.
- Sex helps fight depression. A study by Dr Gordon Gallup of the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany found that women who regularly engage in heterosexual sex in which they come in contact with semen were significantly less depressed than those women that did not. he causal relationship is unclear. Dr Gallup speculates that “possibly because when absorbed through the vagina, semen may have an effect on mood in women”. However, Dr Gallup is quick to point out: “Regardless of the findings, this study does not advocate that people abstain from using condoms. Protecting oneself from an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease is far more important.”
I therefore submit that solution to both not getting knocked-up while allowing "vaginal absorption" is THE PILL - Sex helps coping with middle age. This is the inference drawn from research by Dr GA Bachmann at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey and published first in 1995 in the International Journal of Fertility and Menopausal Studies and continuing in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2006.
- Sex is good exercise. Exercise helps circulation, lowers cholesterol, and releases helpful endorphins.
- Sex helps in losing weight. Well, at least a little. One burns approximately four to five calories per minute or perhaps 300 calories per hour during sex (depending upon how, shall we say, “vigorous” the sex is). About 7,000 to 8,000 excess calories must be burned to lose one kilogram of fat (3,500 to lose one pound). You do the calculations.
how about this?
Most of us are familiar with the Biblical story of Onan, whose sin against God was that of spilling his seed on the ground:
“And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.”
(Genesis 38:9)
This scriptural passage has traditionally been used as an injunction against masturbation. However, upon closer reading, it becomes apparent that this scenario has nothing to do with masturbation at all. Onan was not masturbating; he was copulating with his brother’s wife (and there was a good reason for that, in God’s plan). His sin was pulling out (coitus interruptus) and ejaculating on the ground rather than into the woman. He did so in order to avoid impregnating her. However, he could have easily avoided God’s wrath (and the penalty of death), by simply having the woman fellate him and then swallow his semen. This would have kept him from impregnating her, as well as completely prevented the spilling of seed that was an offense in God’s eyes.
The extreme case of Onan aside, how bad is it in general to spill semen? The Old Testament ranks it with other acts of uncleanliness that meet with God’s disapproval:
“And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.”
(Leviticus 15:16-17)
Getting ejaculate on oneself or one’s clothing results in uncleanness that requires extensive reparations and atonement. Obviously one simple way to prevent the spillage of semen is to have your partner perform fellatio and swallow the emission. In fact, in light of these scriptures, performing fellatio to completion and then spitting out the resulting emission seems almost unthinkable.
hehehe. more here (the good news…). hehehe.
Brilliant comment! hahahaha.
I agree, and just to expound on why he was knockin his brother’s sister, it was said to be common during that time to copulate with your kin’s partner SHOULD they die (to assure your bloodline to continue)
Since the passage posted here doesn’t state wether or not this was indeed the case, I’d be inclined to think that the brother WAS alive, and therefore this particular act was adultery… which probably was the real reason why God got upset.
Whatever the case may be, I’m all for swallowing!
Hahaha… That’s effin’ hilarious man! “Sex” on sex. Can’t afford to let the good stuff go to waste so yippee-ka-yay for “protein” shakes!
…people who reported one or two sexual “episodes” per week enjoyed higher levels of Immunoglobin A.
men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.
oh man, that’s a lotta BACKLOG! gotta start working on that BACKLOG.
“Sex results in a more youthful appearance. According to a study by Dr David Weeks, a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland and co-author of Superyoung (1999), men and women who reported having sex an average of four times per week looked approximately 10 years younger than they really were.”
Hmm… ‘Di naman ako mukhang 15 years old. Hahahaha!
Btw, I really like what you did with your comments section 🙂
Hi Ria,
Hahahaha, type mo ba yung me live preview, etc?
Sayang lang for some reason napupunta sa “junk” comments yung entries mo (and a couple of other people) I just took a look at it now and saw a bunch of legitimate entries which I now posted.
I’ll have to figure out what’s flagging your comments and fix it, but in the meantime I have to just look often at the junk folder in case something slips by.