Sexual activity

1. Sexual activity improves cardiac autonomic functions in humans.

   “penile-vaginal intercourse has been suggested to positively influence cardiac autonomic functions, as indicated by heart rate variability”

   Reviewhealthy postmenopausalfemales

   Cardiovascular disease and female sexual health across the life span: a bidirectional link

   Maturitas·26 Apr 2025

1. Sexual activity is associated with correlations among redox measures between organs in rats.

   “The correlations among redox measures between organs were influenced more by reproduction than by age.”

   Animalsmales

   Sexual activity affects the redox profile along the aging process in male rats

   Biogerontology·30 Sep 2017

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1. Sexual activity is associated with redox profile in rats.

   “reproduction alters the redox profiles of males”

   Animalsmales

   Sexual activity affects the redox profile along the aging process in male rats

   Biogerontology·30 Sep 2017

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1. Sexual activity is associated with early menopause in humans (AOR 2.37, 95% CI 1.24-4.52).

   “sexual activity (AOR=2.37, 95% CI 1.24-4.52) were associated with EM”

   Humansfemales

   Factors associated with early menopause among women in Nigeria

   Journal of virus eradication·1 Jul 2017

1. Sexual activity is associated with lifespan in mice (10–20% longer lifespan in the most sexually successful animals versus less sexually successful competitors).

   “Particularly sexually successful animals, carrying out the most ejaculations, live 10-20% longer than their (subdominant) competitors displaying less sexual success.”

   AnimalsSexually active C57BL/6, CBA and DBA/2 mice under competitive conditionsUntil natural deathmales

   Life expectancy, its relation to sexual activity and body weight in male inbred mice

   Journal of experimental animal science·1 Dec 1992