According to this study: http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-much-sex-makes-you-happy-once-week-according-science
QuoteThe first part of the study used data from a 23-year-long study of over 25,000 people, looking at their sexual desires, patterns, and preferences. In line with the general consensus, this research found that more sex is indeed linked to higher levels of happiness, but only until the frequency reaches once per week. After this point, the link between personal happiness and sex becomes more tenuous, and more sex has a far less significant effect.
This link only applies to those in romantic relationships, though – the relationship between singletons having sex and their own happiness wasn't statistically significant.
The second part of the study asked 335 ethnically diverse participants to take an online survey; they were asked the same types of questions about sex and happiness in relationships, and the results here confirmed the previous findings. This time, however, she decided to compare the sex-happiness link with another oft-cited measure of happiness: personal wealth.
People earning up to $25,000 (£16,400) per year were less happy overall than those earning $75,000 (£49,100); similarly, those having sex on a monthly basis were less happy overall than those having sex on a weekly basis. This isn't surprising, perhaps, but what was striking was just how much happier they were due to a change from monthly to weekly sex when compared to those who began to earn up to $50,000 (£32,740) more than their peers. To put it another way, weekly sex made people happier than a huge pay rise.
Said recently fucked poor people never.
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
I'd be willing to bet poorer couples fuck more than rich ones. Fucking is free entertainment.
Quote from: Norgy on February 15, 2016, 07:44:09 PM
Said recently fucked poor people never.
They may not say it, but apparently they're happier than unfucked people who aren't poor.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 15, 2016, 07:58:37 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
I'd be willing to bet poorer couples fuck more than rich ones. Fucking is free entertainment.
But poor people work five jobs every day and come home cold and tired. They have no time for fucking. Rich lawyers on the other hand...well, I mean look how much free time they have here. :D
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 15, 2016, 07:58:37 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
I'd be willing to bet poorer couples fuck more than rich ones. Fucking is free entertainment.
What I am trying to say is, a poor dude is less likely to find a wife in the first place.
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 08:12:24 PM
What I am trying to say is, a poor dude is less likely to find a wife in the first place.
I hate to be the one to have to break this to you mono, but certain people have been known to have intimate relations without getting married first.
Just more typical bullshit from the Breeder-Industrial Complex.
Besides, money never made me sleep in the wet spot.*
*lulz, SHE SAID NEVER
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
The article is about people in relationships, not people seeing happiness workers.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 15, 2016, 08:51:44 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
The article is about people in relationships, not people seeing happiness workers.
Why did you remove my quote from your signature?!
Weekly sex? *snort*
Quote from: Jaron on February 15, 2016, 08:53:54 PM
Why did you remove my quote from your signature?!
Because the humor had worn thin.
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
Sorry, but once per week is not enough. :P
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 08:12:24 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 15, 2016, 07:58:37 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on February 15, 2016, 07:49:54 PM
Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money :contract:
I'd be willing to bet poorer couples fuck more than rich ones. Fucking is free entertainment.
What I am trying to say is, a poor dude is less likely to find a wife in the first place.
Plenty o' poor marriedz.
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 15, 2016, 09:39:44 PM
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do
That's easy enough to say if your name is Jarvis Cocker. :bowler:
The uneducated poor certainly seem happy.
When youre poor you look at the world differently. You just don't consider these high end things that you're missing. 2 weeks in majorca seems like an amazing once a year treat.
You can't really just imagine yourself but with less money to compare.
The little creatures of nature, they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny!
Jacob, did the study look into whether, in the absence of sex, happiness could be achieved through really frequent masturbation? :hmm:
Quote from: alfred russel on February 16, 2016, 09:57:36 AM
Jacob, did the study look into whether, in the absence of sex, happiness could be achieved through really frequent masturbation? :hmm:
How happy are you?
Quote from: Tyr on February 16, 2016, 07:19:55 AM
The uneducated poor certainly seem happy.
When youre poor you look at the world differently. You just don't consider these high end things that you're missing.
Look up the middle class measuring rod theory. Which is perhaps even more relevant in this age of social media.
I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.
Quote from: Martinus on February 16, 2016, 12:32:16 PM
I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.
I doubt it. Workplace studies have identified happiness as being related to autonomy - ie the power to determine how, when and why one will do something. While it is true that more autonomy normally equates to more responsibility it is a lot better than the alternative in most cases.
But having both maximizes out your chances :P
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 16, 2016, 12:41:38 PM
Quote from: Martinus on February 16, 2016, 12:32:16 PM
I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.
I doubt it. Workplace studies have identified happiness as being related to autonomy - ie the power to determine how, when and why one will do something. While it is true that more autonomy normally equates to more responsibility it is a lot better than the alternative in most cases.
Yeah that's true. Four different committees having to tell me it's ok to put solar panels on my own house is annoying as hell.
This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.
Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.
Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
"First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women."
Quote from: Berkut on February 16, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
Because having money and status makes it much easier to pursue relationships :P
Quote from: Berkut on February 16, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.
Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.
Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
Of course, that all may be true, but that isn't what the study showed as reported. It just showed that for people in relationships that sex was more important to their happiness. Nothing about whether one should prioritize having a relationship over money. :P
Quote from: Monoriu on February 16, 2016, 05:13:25 PM
Quote from: Berkut on February 16, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
Because having money and status makes it much easier to pursue relationships :P
I doubt that as well. A lot of people I know waited until they were secure in their jobs and had money before trying to pursue a serious relationship. It hasn't worked out very well for many of them for a whole variety of reasons. There are some stellar exceptions of course but they are the exceptions.
Quote from: garbon on February 16, 2016, 05:54:55 PM
Quote from: Berkut on February 16, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.
Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.
Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
Of course, that all may be true, but that isn't what the study showed as reported. It just showed that for people in relationships that sex was more important to their happiness. Nothing about whether one should prioritize having a relationship over money. :P
Well, if you don't understand how a healthy relationship leads to a fulfilling sex life, then I am not the person to help you.
You cannot expect every study to connect every single dot for you...
Quote from: Berkut on February 17, 2016, 09:18:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on February 16, 2016, 05:54:55 PM
Quote from: Berkut on February 16, 2016, 03:07:07 PM
This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.
Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.
Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.
The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.
Of course, that all may be true, but that isn't what the study showed as reported. It just showed that for people in relationships that sex was more important to their happiness. Nothing about whether one should prioritize having a relationship over money. :P
Well, if you don't understand how a healthy relationship leads to a fulfilling sex life, then I am not the person to help you.
You cannot expect every study to connect every single dot for you...
The survey pointed out that "the relationship between singletons having sex and their own happiness wasn't statistically significant." So I don't see that the results support having a long-term romantic partner is better for happiness, just that once you have one, you'd better be having sex if you want to be happy. ;)
But if you had to choose between having none of one or the other, you'd be a damn sight happier with no sex than no money.
Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2016, 09:28:28 AM
The survey pointed out that "the relationship between singletons having sex and their own happiness wasn’t statistically significant." So I don't see that the results support having a long-term romantic partner is better for happiness, just that once you have one, you'd better be having sex if you want to be happy. ;)
I think it's kind of the opposite--if you're not in a relationship, having sex more often doesn't do much to make you happier overall, but once you're in a relationship, having sex with your partner more frequently does make you happier. But obviously, that's just on average; some people don't care about sex at all, some actively dislike having sex, and others don't care about much of anything else.
Quote from: dps on February 17, 2016, 10:59:19 PM
and others don't care about much of anything else.
:whistle: