Sex Is Better for Your Happiness Than Money.

Money can't buy you love. But is making love better than making money? Researchers David Blachflower of Dartmouth College and Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England suggest the answer is yes.

Back in 2004, they examined the data on the self-reported levels of sexual activity and happiness of 16,000 people, and found that sex "enters so strongly (and) positively in happiness equations" they

Their paper, "Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study," which appeared in the National Bureau of Economic Research, not only estimates the dollar amount happiness from sex can bring you, it also debunks the old myth that having more money means you'll have more sex. In fact, Blachflower and Oswald find there's zero difference in the frequency of sex from one income level to the next. But they do find that sex appears to bring more happiness to highly educated people than those with lower educational status, which roughly corresponds to economic status.

The long and short of it is that the happiest people are those who are having the most sexytime, though it's not clear whether sex leads to happiness or if happy people just have more sex.
estimate that getting it on just once a month or more is equivalent to the amount of happiness generated by receiving an additional $50,000 in income for the average American.

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