According to a study published in the journal of Psychological and Personality Science, there's definitely a link between sexual frequency and happiness for people who have sex about once per week, the Daily Beast reports.
The excerpt from the paper says "there was a significant linear relationship between sexual frequency and well-being for people having sex once a week or less... and no association for people having sex more than once a week."
According to NPR, Amy Muise, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga who led the research, said in an email.
"Therefore it is not necessary, on average, for couples to aim to engage in sex as frequently as possible."
For the study, the researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga looked at data from the U.S. General Social Survey (GSS).
The GSS 72 has collected data on more than 25,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 89 since 1972. The researchers analyzed the relationship status and the sexual frequency over the past 12 months.
This study suggested that for people in relationships, there's a definitely a link between happiness and sexual frequency, but only up to a point. The trend was found to be consistent across both sexes.
The paper said that for people in relationship "sexual frequency is no longer significantly associated with well-being at a frequency greater than once a week."
The study noted that for people who were "not in a relationship," there was no link found between sexual frequency and happiness.
This paper goes a long way in refuting the notion that more sex will always lead to more happiness, for both genders.
Further, the researchers propose that "an interesting avenue for future research would be to test whether increasing sexual frequency benefits couples who are having sex less frequently than once a week."
