NSTworld: The difference, the study suggests, reflects the body's response to evolutionary pressures.
On average, intimate relations at least once a week reduced the chances of entering menopause by 28 percent compared to women who had sex less than once a month, they reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science."If a woman is having little or infrequent sex when approaching midlife, then the body will not be receiving the physical cues of a possible pregnancy," Megan Arnot and Ruth Mace, scientists at University College London, wrote.
Earlier research seeking to explain why married women reach menopause later than never-married or divorced women points to the influence of male pheromones, natural chemicals in the animal kingdom that attract the opposite sex. The average age of the women going into the study was 46. None had entered menopause, but just under half were"peri-menopausal", with minor symptoms beginning to appear.
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