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It’s not necessarily a full workout, but it can be as good for you as moderate exercise. It raises your heart rate about the same as a brisk walk or a slow bike ride.
Women who have sex a couple of times a week are less likely to get heart disease than those who have it once a month. Whether that’s because healthier women enjoy it more often, or because it helps protect a woman’s heart is unclear.
Say goodbye to the old standby “Not tonight, Dear. I have a headache.” It turns out sex can help with pain, and that includes some kinds of headaches, such as migraines. Not feeling frisky? Try: “Not tonight, Honey. I have a highly contagious stomach bug.” Works every time.
People who have more sex are less anxious when they’re faced with stressful tasks like public speaking or arithmetic. But according to the study, it only works when you have a partner -- masturbation doesn't count.
One study suggested that married women who climaxed more often had a slight tendency to live longer. Researchers aren’t sure if the sex actually lengthens your life or if having sex is a sign of a healthier person. But why take any chances?
Sex has been linked to the making of new brain cells, and that’s a good thing. People over 50 who had more sex were better able to recall numbers and do basic math, and the difference was pretty big. It seemed to help men more than women, but both did better than those who had less sex.
You don’t have to overdo it -- once a week is plenty. More than that, and the effect fades. But scientists only studied couples in committed relationships, so if you’re trying to meet your quota by picking up strangers at your local bar, all bets are off.
The hormone oxytocin is released during sex, and it sparks feelings of intimacy, affection, and closeness with your partner. That helps build a strong, stable relationship, which is good for everyone.
The more sex you have, the slimmer you’re likely to be. Is that because more sex keeps you trim? Or because lean people have more sex? Scientists don’t really know, but all you need is a partner and a bathroom scale to try to find out.
Adults in committed relationships who have more sex are less likely to be depressed or take medication for mental health issues.
Move over, vitamin C. College students who had sex twice a week had more cold-fighting antibodies in their saliva than those who had sex less often.
Orgasm triggers a surge of endorphins and oxytocin in both men and women, and that dulls pain and relaxes you. Both of those can help you sleep more easily, though according to scientists -- and many women -- the effect is more pronounced in men.
If you’re trying to have a baby, the more sex you have, the more likely you are to hit the right time of the month. But more sex may also prime women for pregnancy and improve sperm quality in men, which can speed things along.
People who have more sex may have better quality of life -- and not just now, but in the future, too. If you have an active sex life in middle age, you’re more likely to keep it up as you get older, which is linked to better health and happiness.
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and I knew that I wasn't ready to have one-night stand,
but I was also really horny all the time
and honestly, I would've slept with anyone
My sober self knew that I wasn't ready,
I wore a decidedly puritanical outfit
Like, just the like the ugliest bra you could think of.
We go to the party and I get drunk.
There was like, beer pong and people were shotgunning
and mixing all sorts of flavored vodkas.
I sort of loved it and hated it at the same time.
And I see this guy who's wearing a frat shirt,
and I was like, You, you're perfect.
I don't think we exchanged any words.
And at one point, he was like, Wait, pause,
on my friend Shula's dorm room wall.
to go back to his dorm room and hook up.
I do remember sort of panicking on the way there,
knowing that his expectations and mine were different
He took off my shirt, and the first thing he said
At this point I'm sobering up a little bit,
and I think, Am I gonna go through with this?
But I wanted to be polite, I didn't wanna offend him.
So I was just going with the strategy of distracting him.
So I was like, What kind of books do you like?
And he was like, I don't really read,
and kept pulling at my skirt, trying to get it off.
And I was like, Okay, but if you had to pick
just one book that you've read that you really liked.
And he was like, Okay, who's the guy
and certified academic asshole, was aghast.
and he kept kissing my neck and just littering my body
with all these horrible teenage-y hickeys,
And so I just went with the first thing
that popped in my head, I'm on my period,
It was like, Can you at least do anything?
And my closing line was, Not if you like Michael Crichton.
As I'm walking home, I have my shoes in my hand
and don't feel bad about offending a bro at a party
because you don't owe them anything.
Learn how to say no in whatever way you know how.
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Sex/Life is Netflix 's latest sexually explicit drama that viewers are devouring around the world, but it is not a sex scene that has most people heading to Google to find out how real it is.
In Episode 3 of the popular Netflix series , we are in the shower with Brad (Adam Demos) when the camera lingers on his gigantic penis—an appendage that might even make Boogie Nights ' Dirk Diggler feel a little inadequate in the trouser department.
Search on the Netflix film has been dominated by this scene, with the majority of inquirers asking the first question that jumps to mind: whether it is real. The makers of the show have been coy about this, but there are some things we can learn from a closer look at the film.
In a Collider interview, series creator Stacy Rukeyser confirmed that it was Demos in the shower rather than a body double, but would not confirm if what we saw was all him. She said: "People usually ask is it real or is it a prosthetic? And I can tell you what Adam Demos says about it which is, a gentleman never tells. So, we are leaving that up to the viewer's imagination."
Though Rukeyser would not be drawn to confirm whether the penis is prosthetic, a member of the prosthetics team confirmed to Newsweek that the scene does indeed feature a prosthesis. In fact, there are prosthetic sex parts elsewhere in the show, and the prosthetics team has experience making fake penises—including ones even larger than that in Sex/Life .
In a scene in which the character of Billie had to breastfeed, actor Sarah Shahi confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that she was wearing prosthetic breasts. She told the magazine: "Something like Billie's boobs, in the past every time you see my character with Brad, that's me. Then because I do play a breastfeeding mother, I can't have the same boobs in the present. So yeah, I had to sit through three hours of prosthetic boob application to get those suckers on."
Per IMDB, the series' special prosthetic effects were provided by François Dagenais and Tenille Shockey. The former, who is better known for producing some amazingly graphic gore effects for shows like Hannibal , told Newsweek the assignment was "a bit different than what we usually do but hey! We were also involved with changing Sarah's breasts through the flashbacks."
The latter also has a past in creating prosthetic genitals. Streaming viewers most recently saw her work in this area in The Boys Season 2 , Episode 6. In this episode, fans were introduced to Love Sausage (Andrew Jackson), a character whose superpower was an extending, prehensile penis. That penis was made by Shockey, who released some fairly NSFW images of the prosthetic from the set.
In an Instagram post, she revealed: "They asked for it to be 2 feet, but it looked a little short for what it had to do, so I seemed 2 together to double the length."
She later joked: "Dont get me wrong size doesn't matter, it was just to short to strangle someone!!" Also on her Instagram, she detailed the process of making prosthetic vaginas.
In 2020, Shockey also had to create makeup effects for horror movie Violation , which features another prosthetic appendage. In a Slash Film article, the director said of this: "There was a moment where we knew we needed a prosthetic penis because we were actually hitting the dummy in the head with the bat, so it was, it's like a blink of an eye, you see a dummy holding his own prosthetic penis."
Sex/Life is streaming now on Netflix.
Update 7/01/21 12:15 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information provided by the prosthetics team.

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