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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.
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Also at CNN.
(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Monday October 30 2017, @01:48AM (1 child)
Oh, wow, so many different obvious (news-at-11) type of explanations, the "smoking pot and having sex" seems like a settled area as scientific interest.
Or... is it maybe that the vanity of "appearing to be an expert" is so strong** with soylenters?
Naaahh, it cannot be! The typical soylenter is a skeptic, s/he always doubt an answer, event her/his own answer.
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** so strong that they value the answer more than the experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 30 2017, @05:30PM
There are, indeed, lots of obvious reasons why it might well be true. But establishing that it *is* true is different from arguing that it ought to be true. Figuring out which of the plausible reasons apply, though, will be a real challenge. (Probably lots of them do, to varying degrees with varying sub-populations. Whee! And no obvious objective way of measuring. That's going to be tricky. You may need to get a test population to wear a portable brain scanner of some sort if you can't think of some easier objective test, and the portable scanner hasn't been invented yet, since you'd need to wear it in bed.)
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