A new study finds marijuana smokers have about 20 percent more sex

• A study analyzed the data from 50,000 Americans over 13 years and found that marijuana smokers have sex about 20 percent more often.
• For couples, that could mean 20 more instances of sex per year.
• Most couples use marijuana before sex.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire, say medical researchers who found frequent marijuana users have about 20 percent more sex than those who abstain.
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers unveiled the link between marijuana and the frequency of sexual intercourse in a study published on Friday in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Researchers in California reached their conclusions after a retrospective analysis of data on 50,000 Americans ages 25 to 45, compiled from 2002 to 2015 by the National Survey of Family Growth. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsors the survey.
Respondents were asked how many times they have had heterosexual intercourse in the past four weeks and how frequently they have smoked marijuana over the past 12 months, Stanford researchers said in a press release.
Women who were daily pot users had sex an average of 7.1 times during the previous four weeks, compared with 6.0 times reported by those who denied using marijuana in the past year. For men, daily users reported 6.9 times compared with 5.6 for non-users.
"In other words, pot users are having about 20 percent more sex than pot abstainers," said the study's senior author, Dr. Michael Eisenberg, assistant professor of urology at Stamford.

Given that the average couple has sex about once a week, Eisenberg said, the bottom line for partaking in a bong or blunt could add up to 20 more instances of sexual intercourse each year.
"I think if you asked a man or a woman, 20 more times to have sex over a year, that would seem like a lot," Eisenberg said.
It used to be thought that couples mostly smoked after sex, but Eisenberg said his findings show the opposite is true for "all races, ages, education levels, income groups and religions, every health status, whether they were married or single and whether or not they had kids."

Eisenberg cautioned the study should not be misinterpreted as having proven a causal link.
"It doesn't say if you smoke more marijuana, you'll have more sex," he said.
Still, for many, research in the name of science may never be so fun.

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'Frequent marijuana use doesn't seem to impair sexual motivation or performance. If anything, it's associated with increased coital frequency,' said the study's senior author, Michael Eisenberg, MD, assistant professor of urology.

The most recent data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse show more than 20 million American adults use marijuana - and that rate is rocketing as more states legalize the drug for recreational and medical use. It is already legal in 29 states.

The rapid legalization movement has pushed scientists to investigate all aspects of the drug's properties and impacts.

Research is divided on many points - but when it comes to sex, things are especially murky.

Some studies have found the drug affects a man's sperm count and erectile function, while others have shown it activates sexual arousal in the brain.

Drs Eisenberg and Andrew Sun, the lead author, assessed data compiled from the National Survey of Family Growth.

The annual survey assesses family structures, sexual activity and the number of children, and US demographics.

Participants have to say how many times they've had sex in the past month, and how much marijuana they've consumed over the past year.

Looking at all this data from 2002 to 2017, the researchers zeroed in on the age group of 25-45 - 28,176 women with an average ago of 29.9 and 22,943 men with an average age of 29.5.

'The overall trend we saw [of marijuana increasing sexual frequency] applied to people of both sexes and all races, ages, education levels, income groups and religions, every health status, whether they were married or single and whether or not they had kids,' Dr Eisenberg said.

They found a quarter (24.5 percent) of men, and 14.5 percent of women had used marijuana over the time period, and those who had used the drug reported a highly frequency of sexual intercourse than those who hadn't.

For example, women who did not report using marijuana had sex around six times a month, compared to cannabis users, who had sex an average of 7.1 times a month.

The difference was more stark for men - surprisingly, given the widely publicized suggestion that pot triggers erectile dysfunction. Non-marijuana users had sex 5.6 a month, compared to daily users who had sex an average of 6.9 a month.

Crunching the figures, the authors found pot increased sexual activity by 20 percent.

They found this was true of all people - eliminating the theory that it is only true for people who smoke weed to relax before sex, they said.

While the authors assured that this does not categorically prove weed directly boosts sexual activity, they said it calls into question previous studies suggesting the opposite.

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Shhhh!! if the others find out, there'll be none left for the rest of us.... ;^>)

A big reason I grow so my wife never runs out.

Who knew...fun people like to take fun substances and do fun things...like touchin a boob

I agree lol. My wife on the other hand doesn't partake so she's always questioning me with "did you smoke tonight?"....

im sure we've all smoked some good weed once and just thought "i wanna fuuuck"