How Your Sex Life Can Affect Your Paycheck
You’re about to be rolling in cash—almost. (Photo: Trinette Reed/Getty Inc.)
Experts say sex can lead to fewer breakouts, help you shed pounds, and maybe even add years to your life. In other words, sex definitely does a body good.
But the latest sex research is even more titillating—no sex toys involved. A new study says that people who get busy two or three times a week earn 4.5 percent more money than their less sexually active colleagues.
A team at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK analyzed the relationship between bedroom exploits and paycheck figures of 7,500 people. Their findings? A solid and favorable correlation between the two. But before you send out that booty call text, hold up: upping the number of notches on your bedpost doesn’t mean you’ll see extra zeros in your bank account. (Unfortunately.) The connection is a lot looser than that.
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“People need to love and be loved, sexually and non-sexually, by others. In the absence of these elements, people may become susceptible to loneliness, social anxiety and depression—all factors that can affect their working life,” lead researcher Dr. Nick Drydakis has said. Makes complete sense, right? Work life and home life aren’t quite as separate as we like to think. The study says: “Contemporary social analysis suggests that health, cognitive and non-cognitive skills and personality are important factors that affect wage level…[and] sexual activity is considered to be a barometer for health, quality of life, well-being and happiness.”
Verdict: We’re 100 percent in support of leaning into your sex life. We hear it pays off.
By Thailan Pham
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