Sex research can be funny
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Most of those surveys are pretty worthless, in any case. It is a social researcher’s cliche that reported levels of sexual activity and alcohol consumption should always be halved and doubled, respectively. …
One of the few recent high-quality pieces of research in the field, by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, uses the US General Social Survey, with a sample size of 16,000, to assess, for the first time, the relationship between sex and happiness. Their conclusion is that “sexual activity enters strongly positively in an equation in which reported happiness is the dependent variable”. Say again? “The more sex, the happier the person.” So this finding falls squarely into the “academics find facts blindingly obvious to everyone else” category. …
Richard Reeves, Does sex make us happy? Don’t talk about it …
