As the year comes to an end I find myself thinking about the resolutions I made and the goals I set for myself back in January. This was going to be the year I got serious about my health. I bought a Fitbit, heeded its warnings and humored its requests to exercise more. While I may not have met all my goals, the extra accountability of a fitness tracker helped me live healthier and lose enough weight to drop an underwear size.
Physical health wasn’t the only thing I focused on this year as I took the advice of a friend and visited a psychiatrist for a general assessment.
Over the course of a couple visits he listened to me talk about myself while asking questions that helped identify some anxieties that I always knew I had but never talked about while sober. In the end he made two general recommendations: I should keep exercising and try drinking less alcohol and instead smoke more weed to relax. What a time to be alive.
Though I did start drinking less, I didn’t start smoking more because it seemed counterproductive to the life changes I was trying to make. However according to a recent article published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine I may have to rethink this stance.
Through a study on the sexual habits of heterosexual men and women it was determined that people who use marijuana daily have more sex. Well shit, spark me up then.
The study was done by Dr. Michael Eisenberg of the Stanford University Medical Center. Using data from the US government’s National Survey of Family Growth, a poll on the sexual and lifestyle habits of more than 50,000 men and women, he determined that women who use marijuana daily had sex 7.1 times on average in the four weeks before the survey as opposed to only six for those who didn’t. Likewise male users had sex an average of 6.9 times during the same time period versus just 5.6 for their less cool counterparts.
The good doctor found the positive correlation between getting faded and getting laid to be shocking and that it held true regardless of other demographics such as race or marital status.
Scientific studies on the effects of marijuana use on sex have been fairly mixed. Through some tests on humans and mice indicate the use of THC can increase sexual arousal, it can also hinder the ability to achieve an orgasm. The results of this recent study may suggest there’s a balance regular users have found after getting high where they are both horny but able to climax. Neat!
At any rate Dr. Eisenberg states that people looking to have more sex would be better off hitting the gym and losing 20 pounds instead of smoking a bowl. He elaborates that “anything that can be good for your heart can be good for your penis. For a lot of guys, hearing that is an amazing motivator.”
Via cnn.com
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