So there’s good news for those among you who love shagging, and lets face it who doesn’t love rolling around making ooohing and ahhing noises (I always worry about the whole omnipresent thing about God at such times – Lord, avert your eyes!). Scientists have discovered that having sex helps calm nerves!
Now I’m not entirely sure how one gets to come to this conclusion, no pun intended, but nonetheless scientist have found that if you’re a nervous person then more sex is probably going to do you the world of good.
Apparently this is especially good news for those who don’t particularly like public speaking or giving powerpoint presentations and the such. But it has to be all the way sex with a partner according to Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley in England. He compared the impact of different sexual activities on blood pressure when a person later experiences acute stress. For a fortnight, 24 women and 22 men kept diaries of how often they engaged in full on ‘scream at the ceiling’ sex, and other types of sex. After, the volunteers underwent a stress test involving public speaking and mental arithmetic out loud.
The volunteers who’d had penetrative sex were the most chilled out in a sciencey kind of way, compared to those who had engaged in other non-penetrative sex stuff. Interestingly though, those who had no nothing in the nether regions (not to be confused with the Netherlands of course) had the highest blood-pressure response to stress.
This probably goes a long way in explaining why so many Christians I’ve met are so up-tight and dramatic. Sex is, of course, the Achilles heel of Christianity. God said you can’t ‘get down’ with someone you’re not married to, and while that might work in a moral sense, it does rather change when one considers that way back when God apparently ordered this, arranged marriages with very young girls was very common.
The world is a different place these days, and as if to demonstrate that fact, only yesterday the Episcopal church which apologized for being at the forefront of slave trade and slavery in general, once a accepted part of culture, now very much an unacceptable thing by any standard.
Of course, those unmarried Christians that do engage in a little sexual stress relief with their significant other, probably don’t get the best effect from it though, as they have to continue pretending to other good Christians that they too are ‘good Christians’. One might even suggest that if a church is full of people not only not having sex, but also full of unmarried couples who are having sex but are still stressed because they are having to pretend they’re not, then this surely leads to a pressure cooker of tension and stress?
But never mind of all that pondering about the ins and outs of abstinence, I want to find out how one volunteers for these studies!? I mean where the heck do they get these people from? And maybe I’m stepping over a line of acceptability here, but is anyone doing a study on the effects of really noisy full on ‘howl at the moon’ sex? I’m not saying I’d volunteer you understand. No sir, I’m not married yet, so of course, I’m a virgin don’t you know.
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Sex before stressful events keeps you calm
The rules of Christian sex
Christian sex : What’s OK, what’s not
Divine interventions Oh my!! Seriously, don’t click this link!
Heavenly help – Kaching!
Church to apologize for role in slavery
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 9:42 am
Am I a confirmed bachelor? Well I’m just living life, I haven’t made a life choice to be single if that’s what you’re asking.
The only thing I’m certain of is that there’s no such thing a certainty.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 11:39 am
I actually should point out that I have a huge respect for those who remain a virgin until they get married. I don’t think there is any huge advantage of course, but it does at least show an incredible amount of self control if nothing else.
But then there is the thing about ‘the line.’ A subject that is pointless bringing up here as those unmarried Christians who have crossed it are unlikely to freely admit it, and those who probably wouldn’t want to discuss what they have done so far and how much that can be considered near to or over the so called ‘line.
‘It’s a subject that Christianity fails to be honest about time and again. People aren’t honest for fear of judgement and condemnation from other Christians, let alone God himself! Truth be told, their fellow believers are likely to be much harder on them than God.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I think there is a popular misconception that God has a problem with sex according to most Christians. It seems this has become a bit of a stereotype or caricature of Christians. “Ya know, Christians, those people who don’t like sex?” I imagine there are more than a few ‘misguided’ Christians on the subject so for them the caricature may just fit. Of course, Christians, I would hope, understand that God created sex. So how could he have a “problem” with it? Sex has a purpose which is not only to procreate. There is pleasure in sex for a reason: so you’ll do it more often (that procreation thing) and I would hope as a benefit, grow closer to one’s partner. However, there are clearly laid out parameters within which a sexual relationship should occur. Not because God has a “problem” with sex but because it is what is best for us. Sex is much more than a physical act for the human species although some of us like to think it can be reduced to just that. Most of all the confusion regarding a secular and Christian view of sex, has everything to do with two very opposing worldviews. I am no prude for sure nor do I sit in judgement. I haven’t much right to do as such as I came to “the faith” after having sown quite a few wild oats of my own, so to speak, so I like to think I can see the issue from both sides. Maybe. I’m rambling…
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 9:26 am
Sigh…what to say…what to say. I would have to say I finally calmed down after a stressful day w/ the above sexual solution….only prob it took 6 times in an 8 hr period. I was thinking…hmmm either I need xanax or I can never leave my bedroom during a crisis. But I will back up this theory..it works. Soo are you a confirmed bachelor for life :)
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 10:44 am
so very interesting…now things are starting to make sense. haand yeah, simon..youre a virgin like im a…i dont know..something that i am sooo NOT.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 10:53 am
This is one of those stories that make you say “DUH!!!”
And, as a Christian, who has made the decision to remain chaste untill I FINALLY marry, there are other ways to relieve stress. But then of course, one usually has to admit to themselves that they’re stressed out. Most people are way to full of themselves to admit they have any weakness, so they just learn to live stressed out lives, all the while pretending the’yre just peachy.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 8:42 pm
I don’t think you were rambling Jonathon, I do think though, that having come from a background where you admit you “sewed a few oats” it’s kinda hard to be able to say that people should wait until they’re married. Truth is, in todays world, the whole sex thing and marriage thing is quite different, or at least it seems that way to me. And the greatest tragedy of all is that an open honest debate about the questions of sex will never happen because people can’t be open and honest because of the fear of judgement from others.
I don’t for one moment think that Christians don’t like sex. Long ago I discovered that a great place to meet girls who were up for it was church! That seemed a little crazy at the time, but now looking back I realise that teenagers and young people in general are pretty much all the same. The fact the church kids acted more christian didn’t detract from the fact they were still curious and keen.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 9, 2006 at 6:45 pm
No wonder I’m so tense lately.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 10, 2006 at 6:06 am
Ok…..Well I am most “certain” I will remain single for awhile. Shag-less I am. And i have been married…so virgin I am not. And like I told my son when we had “the talk” God made sex enjoyable so that we would want to procreate…he said ewwww. I said thats why you will not want to do it until you are married….I hope he remembers that little talk, he is turning 14 next month :)