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posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 30 2017, @12:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the correlation-vs-causation dept.

A study has found that people who smoke more cannabis have more sex than those who smoke less or abstain:

Tobacco companies put a lot of effort into giving cigarettes sex appeal, but the more sensual smoke might actually belong to marijuana. Some users have said pot is a natural aphrodisiac, despite scientific literature turning up mixed results on the subject. At the very least, a study published Friday [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.09.005] [DX] in the Journal of Sexual Medicine suggests that people who smoke more weed are having more sex than those who smoke less or abstain. But whether it's cause or effect isn't clear.

The researchers pulled together data from roughly 50,000 people who participated in an annual Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey during various years between 2002 and 2015. "We reported how often they smoke — monthly, weekly or daily — and how many times they've had sex in the last month," says Dr. Michael Eisenberg, a urologist at Stanford University Medical Center and the senior author on the study. "What we found was compared to never-users, those who reported daily use had about 20 percent more sex. So over the course of a year, they're having sex maybe 20 more times."

Women who consumed marijuana daily had sex 7.1 times a month, on average; for men, it was 6.9 times. Women who didn't use marijuana at all had sex 6 times a month, on average, while men who didn't use marijuana had sex an average of 5.6 times a month.

When the researchers considered other potentially confounding factors, such as alcohol or cocaine use, age, religion or having children, the association between more marijuana and more sex held, Eisenberg says. "It was pretty much every group we studied, this pattern persisted," he says. The more marijuana people smoked, the more they seemed to be having sex.

An Anonymous Coward would like to remind you that he is "not cool enough" to acquire cannabis illegally from drug dealers.

Also at CNN.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Monday October 30 2017, @12:58AM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Monday October 30 2017, @12:58AM (#589270) Journal

    Having sex has risks (depending on circumstances, the risk may be anywhere between zero to quite high).

    Taking illegal drugs has risks.

    People with a higher tolerance for risk do risky behaviors. News at 11.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @01:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @01:20AM (#589278)

    More sex partners, instead of more sex acts, is probably an even stronger correlation.

    A few other things that will go with sex and pot: use of a motorcycle, having tattoos, not having a house that is outright owned or with a loan in good standing, drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, eating junk food, willingly going into bad neighborhoods on foot...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @12:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @12:33PM (#589414)

    Nothing to do with risk. It's people with impulsive personalities. People that can't control their impulses and "go with the crowd" are more likely to do all sorts of impulsive things because "feels good at the time".

    And no, this has nothing to do with spontaneous people.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-spontaneous-and-impulsive [quora.com]