How often should a man have sex

Warning - graphic content: Find out everything you were wondering about sex. Get the best photos, top stories of the week and fascinating features direct to your inbox every Saturday morning in our exclusive Weekend Report newsletter. There are a whole host of factors which impact our sex lives, or lack thereof, including age, health, sex drive and lifestyle to name a few. But now someone has gone and worked out how much sex we should be having, the Mirror online reports. A recent study from the Kinsey Institute for research in Sex, Reproduction and Gender suggests that it's this variable age which can predict how often we have sex.

While most of us would obviously like to be spending our lives in a perpetual state of boinkage, the truth is that the responsibilities of work and home life often get in the way, and it gets tougher and tougher to figure out how to slot it in both literally and figuratively. Recently, a recirculated study written up by Playboy, among other outlets, attempted to determine, once and for all, how much sex you should be having at various ages. The average frequency of intercourse for people between the ages of 18 and 29 was times a year, or twice a week, while it was 69 times a year nice for people between the ages of 40 and 49, and so on and so forth. This is far from the first time that researchers have tried to gauge whether there's a platonic ideal for how often people should be boinking.

Do it less frequently? Here's what that might mean. When it comes to sex, people tend to fudge the numbers.

Read on to find out where that number came from, how ejaculation affects your prostate cancer risk, what happens to your sperm, and more. The article details the results of a study of 31, men published in the December issue of European Urology. The study in question relied on self-reported answers — once in and once in — about how often they ejaculated each month and whether they developed prostate cancer. The reason for emission may play a role in any potential benefits.