Large review of results on the impact of sexuality on well-being finds that there are positive, healthy effects that result from pleasurable, fulfilling sexual experiences (Anderson 2013)

OberOst · 2019-12-08T09:11:30+00:00

LordEppley · 2019-12-05T21:33:28+00:00

Related: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0032-5

With no age interaction with marital status (see Panel 1a), the coefficient for the effect of being unmarried for men aged 25 and older is more than twice the magnitude of that for women in the same age group (0.2858 vs. 0.1271), a difference that is statistically significant at the .01 level (p= .003). The odds of death in the next year are 1.33 times greater for an unmarried man than for a married man with otherwise equivalent sociodemographic, economic, and health (disability) characteristics, but are only 1.14 times greater for unmarried women than for otherwise similar married women (both individually statistically significant). These results,when added to the evidence in Table2, strengthen the conclusion that marriage is protective for survival for both men and women, and that a survival premium accrues to men.

tl;dr: Marriage has a protective effect for both sexes, but a significantly greater protective effect for men (in terms of preventing early death).

OberOst · 2019-12-05T20:39:50+00:00

Full text: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=13075799599432782993&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5