A
Study published in the the journal Biological Psychology found that frequent intercourse was associated with lower diastolic blood pressure in cohabiting participants.
B
Yet other research found a link between partner hugs and lower blood pressure in women.
Blood pressure reactivity to stress is better for people who recently had penile–vaginal intercourse than for people who had other or no sexual activity
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Materials and procedure
2.2.1. Sexual behavior
2.2.2. Stressor
2.2.3. Physiological recording
2.3. Design
3. Results
3.1. Penile–vaginal intercourse versus masturbation
3.2. Penile–vaginal intercourse versus partnered sexual behavior in the absence of penile–vaginal intercourse
3.3. Additional analyses
4. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Fig. 1. Means and standard error bars for stress responses of systolic and diastolic blood pressure as a function of combinations of intercourse and (above) masturbation or (below) “noncoital partner sex” (partnered sexual behavior in the absence of penile–vaginal intercourse).
Table 1.
Blood pressure responses to stress as a function of recent sexual behaviors
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a SBP = systolic blood pressure, DBP = diastolic blood pressure, noncoital partner sex = partnered sexual behavior in the absence of penile–vaginal intercourse the same day.
Table 2.
Characteristics of different sexual behavior groups a,b
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a All comparisons are nonsignificant except proportion of females/biological sex ratio (as described in the text).
b Noncoital partner sex = partnered sexual behavior in the absence of penile–vaginal intercourse the same day.
c Schulz and Schlotz (1999).
d Brody (2002b).
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Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, UK. Fax: +1 561 431 3114.
Abstract
“Penile–vaginal intercourse (PVI) but not other sexual behavior is associated with better psychological and physiological function. I examined the relationship of sexual behavior patterns to blood pressure (BP) and its reactivity to stress (public speaking and verbal arithmetic). For a fortnight, 24 women and 22 men used daily diaries to record PVI, masturbation, and partnered sexual behavior in the absence of PVI. Persons who reported PVI (but no other sexual activities) had better stress response (less reactivity and/or lower baseline levels) than persons reporting other or no sexual behaviors. Persons who only masturbated or had partnered sex without PVI had 14 mmHg more systolic BP reactivity than those who had PVI but not the other behaviors. Many variables were examined but failed to confound the observed relationships. The magnitude of the sexual behavior effect on BP reactivity is greater than of other factors in the literature. These findings add to the research corpus on the benefits of PVI (differentiated from other sexual activities).”
By Stuart Brody
Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, UK
Received 22 November 2004;
accepted 12 March 2005.
Available online 14 June 2005
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