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Monday, September 23, 2013
No Wonder I'm Broke
A new study finds that sexually active people make more money.
And if you do it more than four times a week, you earn even more, the study shows.
"There is a monotonic relationship between the frequency of sexual activity and wage returns," Nick Drydakis, a senior economics lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in England wrote in a paper for the International Journal of Manpower.
When people are having sex regularly, they're happier, stronger, eat better and exercise more, researchers have found.
The "Sex and the City" bed-hopping cliché notwithstanding, marriage seems to have a lot to do with it. "Married people, particularly men, earn higher wages than the non-married," Oswald said. "One possible explanation is that such people are sociable, stable people."
Conversely, a sexless marriage appears to be detrimental to a person's earning power. "Married men having no sex receive lower wages by 1.3 percent," Drydakis wrote, calling the amount "statistically significant."
Drydakis did have one caveat, which we'll call the gold-digger variable: In some cases, a better job or higher income could be the reason someone starts having more sex, rather than the other way around.
"Higher wages may increase the value and attractiveness of a person on the dating market; higher wages may also increase purchase of gifts that are thanked for via sex," the paper pointed out.
Reports like this are so worthless. So 'making less' meant 1.3% in this study. I suspect that the accuracy of asking someone 'how often do you have sex' is EXTREMELY low, even in an official study. That would more than make a 1.3% gain insignificant due to potential for error in the stats.
ReplyDeleteI will go so far as to say that no survey ever taken in the history of mankind regarding how often someone has sex is accurate.