研究顯示:每週一次性生活更幸福

Are you having enough sex? You might have wondered if you should up your bedroom activity after reading about other couples' resolutions to have sex every day or about all the health benefits of getting horizontal.

你有足夠的性生活嗎？在瞭解了有的伴侶之間決定每天做愛、或是知道性愛帶來的健康益處之後，你可能會思考是不是應該增加你的房事頻率。

In what might be welcome news for everyone exhausted from work and frazzled from kids, research suggests you don't have to get down every day to reap the rewards of sex, at least in terms of happiness and relationship closeness.

研究表明，至少從獲取愉悅感和增進感情兩方面來說，不是必須每天都啪啪啪纔好的，這對因工作而疲憊不堪或者因帶孩子而勞心費神的人來說可能是個好消息。

A recent study found that, although married people or people in committed relationships who had more sex tended to report feeling happier, the benefit leveled off at a sexual frequency of once a week. Those who said they did the deed four or more times a week did not report feeling any happier than those who had trysts only weekly.

一項最近的研究發現，雖然對已婚人羣或者關係穩定的伴侶來說，性生活頻率越高就越趨於感到更幸福，但這種趨勢穩定在一週一次。那些一週做愛四次及以上的人並不會比穩定地每週做愛一次的人感到更幸福。

"I do think couples can end up feeling pressure to try to engage in sex as frequently as possible," said Amy Muise, a postdoctoral researcher studying sexual relationships at Dalhousie University in Canada. Once a week "is maybe a more realistic goal to set than thinking you have to have sex everyday and that feels overwhelming and you avoid it," said Muise, who is lead author of the study, which was published in November in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

在加拿大達爾豪西大學研究性關係的博士後研究員艾米·繆斯表示：“我真的覺得伴侶間總是想着儘可能多地做愛反而會帶來壓力。”繆斯認爲，比起計劃每天做愛卻超過承受範圍因此產生厭惡情緒，一週一次可能是一個更現實的目標。

The study found that sex could boost happiness because it makes people feel more satisfied in their relationship, based on survey data from two separate cohorts, including 2,400 married couples in the U.S. National Survey of Families and Households.

該研究還發現，根據美國全國家庭調研中的2400對已婚夫婦的兩組實驗人羣調查數據顯示，性愛能帶來愉悅感是因爲它能讓人們對他們的關係更滿意。

"For people in relationships, their romantic relationship quality is one of the biggest predictors of their overall happiness," Muise said. "Having sex more than once a week might not be enhancing that (relationship connection), although it is not bad."

繆斯表示：“對於有伴侶的人們，他們的戀愛關係質量是他們整體幸福感的最主要預測因素之一，而性生活頻率高於一週一次並不能使關係更緊密，雖然這也並不是什麼壞事。”