I'm well known for never making bold statement with scant evidence but I'm going to have to go with one here:

Consider groups of men such as:
a) never or rarely have sex
b) regularly have sex in non longterm relationships
c) happily married
d) promiscous homosexual

Those who have the most sex are d) and haven't fared well in terms of longevity. Those who have the most orgasms are probably a) and d). Those who are happily married have the fewest orgasms.

Anyone misguided enough to disagree?

studies in a number of organisms (flys, worms, rodents, probably a few more that i don't think about), suggest that reproduction will negatively impact lifespan (possibly due to the energy cost to the female in having babies, think there's conflicting data). course this might be a bit difficult to apply to humans since they tend to have 1 baby a few times versus multiple babies or eggs many times.

not that anyone doesn't know this by now, caloric restriction seems to help in everything from fungus to rats. eat a low calorie (within reason, need enough calories to do normal activities) but nutritious, lab organisms will live longer than siblings that get feed a equally nutritious but higher calorie meal.

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Are you going to claim that happily married men have more orgasms than promiscuous homosexuals or lonely men?

Are you trying to claim that happily married men masturbate significantly less than other groups?

You disagree?

Given the thread title, I was wondering how long it would take posters to reach the masturbation stage. It turns out much shorter than I thought possible. I can hardly remember when I so misjudged our constituency. I apologize for my complete lack of faith and my blatant inaccuracy. I swear by my hairy palms that it won’t happen again.

Carry on.


-Another Blind Man at the Gate.

Yes and by necessity. Happily married couples tend toward scheduling their shared fun. This makes it necessary to schedule self-pleasure as a regimen.

Unhappy married couples probably have a bell-bar shaped distribution of orgasm frequency.

Its going to depend on how you define happily married. Maybe my categorization is too broad but I was trying to include a non-vanishingly small number of men within it.

Sorry, wont mention masturbation again.

Having a good laugh might be a factor in longevity. I'd recommend a British sit-com called coupling http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237123/to most here, very funny in parts and includes the best happy couple masturbation gag.

But improve the quality of life during your whole life...

I meant it as just "happily married" only as the combination of "happy" and "married". A rather narrow catorization, but one that clearly exists. A venn diagram would probably suffice to show the relationship.

I'm not sure of the prevalence, but anecdotal evidence supports my hypothesis.

whereas my hypothesis is supported by anacdotal evidence.

Of course. I would argue that your "happy" is an approximation that would more correctly be called "rigidly settled" or "fairy-tail-ish."

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so that's why my palms are growing hair and I wear glasses, go figure

How I wonder if it's simply correlation. I'd imagine hig sex frequencies would be correlated with a healthier and happier life in general

It's to do with the cells being worn out, more calories seems to be more effort/processing


For 1) Run away to the country with a laptop and a bunch of seedlings, grow your own food and play the pokers for full income, Ido. I tried leaving my recluse and go out into the "real world" and almost killed myself. too.... dangerous..... outside...... my..... stay home.....must be safe......

Guess I must go hunting woman soon though, I don't think the rubber glove is helping the life expectancy D:

The number of people who realize that they are animals is not vanishingly small. Seems likely they would pair up. Of course, I do only have anecdotal evidence that this happens.

Seems likely to be a parabolic relationship.

What is it? (And how old are you?)