In an article in THE INDEPENDENT July 1, 2008 by Brit Dan Roberts, making love, being touched and even getting regular hugs from a loved one was found to not only make you feel good but boost your immune system and can even reduce the risk of prostate and breast cancers. So could sex save your life? Here are the main points of the article:
A US study carried out in 2000 found that 32 per cent of the 1,866 female respondents who reported masturbating in the previous three months did so to help them sleep.
A study in the journal Biological Psychology revealed that people under stress have better responses to stressful scenarios if they have engaged in intercourse vs. other sexual behaviours or abstained altogether.
"A great deal of research has shown that touch has a naturally calming effect on human beings, whether it's linked to sex or not. Of course, being touched by someone you care about will double the calming effect." (Julia Cole)
Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibodies that boost your general well-being and immune system. "We know that when you're feeling good about yourself your body fights off illness and disease better – so the healthier we are psychologically and emotionally, the healthier we are physically." (Psychosexual therapist Paula Hall).
Australian researchers reported in the British Journal of Urology International that men who had at least five or more ejaculations weekly during their twenties reduced their risk of getting prostate cancer by a third.
Research in France found higher risk of breast cancer in those women without sexual partner or who had sex less than once a month.
Having sex and orgasms is a key part of improving intimacy and ensuring a healthy long-term relationship – which has been linked to a longer lifespan in a number of studies.
Our theme for the February 1st event will be sensuality. Last year we did this theme to 1) learn about activating your senses and 2) to see how good you are at telling a person of the opposite sex how to please your senses. Remember this is all platonic. This ain't a Cuddle Party (run by a former acquaintaince), but you'll be amazed about how important it is to know how your senses function overall and individually.
Did you know that we have the least number of words to distinguish smell in the English language? It's also the most offensive arena of the senses from the locker room to pungeant food odors. But you can play with the senses once you know how to activate them, clear them--like ginger for your palate, and play with them in relating to the opposite sex.
We will be activating our touch, smell, sight, and sound senses during the evening.
The next event is February 1st from 9pm - Midnight.
Black History month can always get so significant, so self-important that we forget one of the golden rules of being human -- being touched. I named my album/CD after a Nikki Giovanni poem that says
and if ever I touched a life I hope that life knows that I know that touching was and still is and will always be the true revolution "When I Die" from My House (1972)
So "Sensuality" seems a fitting theme for the February event to bring men and women together around.
This song by the Isley Brothers is one of the sexiest songs on Sensuality
