{"id":37646,"date":"2020-01-15T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=37646"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:39:38","slug":"frequent-sex-delays-menopause-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/frequent-sex-delays-menopause-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequent Sex Delays Menopause, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women approaching menopause who have frequent sex are less likely to cross that threshold than women of the same age who are not as active sexually, researchers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On average, intimate relations at least once a week reduced the chances of entering menopause by 28 percent compared to women who had sex less than once a month, they reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.<\/p>\n

The difference, the study suggests, reflects the body\u2019s response to evolutionary pressures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a woman is having little or infrequent sex when approaching midlife, then the body will not be receiving the physical cues of a possible pregnancy,\u201d Megan Arnot and Ruth Mace, scientists at University College London, wrote.<\/p>\n

Rather than continuing to ovulate, according to this theory, \u201cit would be better \u2014 from a fitness-maximizing perspective \u2014 for the woman to cease fertility and invest energy into any existing kin she has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier research seeking to explain why married women reach menopause later than never-married or divorced women points to the influence of male pheromones, natural chemicals in the animal kingdom that attract the opposite sex.<\/p>\n

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To find out whether either theory held water, Arnot and Mace examined data on nearly 3,000 women in the United States recruited in 1996 and 1997 to take part in a multi-decade health study.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Known as SWAN, the project was designed to collect data and track changes \u2014 both biological and psychological \u2014 that occur alongside menopause.<\/p>\n

The average age of the women going into the study was 46. None had entered menopause, but just under half were \u201cperi-menopausal\u201d, with minor symptoms beginning to appear.<\/p>

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During the following decade, 45 percent of the women experienced natural menopause, at an average age of 52.<\/p>\n

Going into the study, nearly 78 percent of the women were married or in a relationship with a man, and 68 percent lived with their partner.<\/p>\n

The correlation between the frequency of sex and onset of menopause was unmistakable, the researchers found.<\/p>\n

All the relationships reported were heterosexual, so it is not known whether the same-sex activity would have a similar effect.<\/p>\n

No link, however, was seen between the live-in presence of men and the subliminal chemical signals males might be emitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found no evidence for the pheromone hypothesis,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n

There is considerable variation in the age of natural menopause across cultures, but genetic factors only account for about half of those differences, earlier research has shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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