What are the health benefits of Sex

Having sex not only makes happy but there are also many health benefits of having sex with your partner, below are 9 health benefits you never know sex can provide -

1. Boost your Immune System: Having sex will generate White blood cells (WBC), which helps your body against germs, viruses and other intruders. 

2. Controls your blood pressure: recent studies found that having sex helps you to relax which will lower your blood pressure.

3. Sex is a Great Exercise: Sex is a great form of an exercise, it's a muscular exercise which burns your calories and increases your heart rate. 

4. Reduces the risk of Heart Attack: Having sex is good for your heart, which raises your heart rate, sex helps to maintain the estrogen and testosterone levels in balance

5. Reduce Menstrual cramps: Having an orgasm can block pain, vaginal stimulations can reduce the back and leg pain, arthritic pain and in some cases even headache.

6. Improves Sleep:  People usually dose of quickly after sex and tend to get a sound sleep.

7. Get rid of Stress: sexual arousal releases a brain chemical which gives your brain pleasure and reward system, Sex and intimacy relieve you of stress and boost your self-esteem and happiness too.

8. Helps Women's Bladder Control: Incontinence, a problem that affects about 30% of women at some point in their lives is helped with regular sex. Good sex is like a workout for their pelvic floor muscles. An orgasm causes contractions in those muscles thus strengthening them

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