The one who is faithful has a lower risk of getting cancer

JUST on the eve of Valentine's day comes research that seems made on purpose to invite you to be faithful. The study, published online in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, says that having many partners is not good for health and in fact it may even increase the risk of cancer.

Few studies until now have examined the potential impact of the number of sexual partners health conditions. To try to fill this gap, the researchers drew on information collected for the Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), a study of representative monitoring at the national level of people over 50 living in England. All In all, have been involved 5722 people (2537 men and 3185 women) to which - between 2012 and 2013 - was asked how many sexual partners they had had the possibility to choose from none to ten or even more. In addition, he was asked to also assess their health and report any condition or malaise, but also of the old data that bear in some way on their routine activities. Of course, have been taken into account also other information such as age, ethnicity, marital status, family income, life-style (smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity) and the presence of depressive symptoms. The average age of the participants was 64 years, and nearly three out of four were married. Men more promiscuous, What emerged? About 28.5% of men and 40% of women said they had none or only one sexual partner up to the present day; 29% of men and 35.5% of the women stated to have had between 2 and 4. As you increase the number of partners decreases the proportion of positive responses: only one in five men (20%) and 16% of women reported being with 5-9 persons while respectively the 22% of men and less than 8% of the women responded that they had 10 or more stories. Bad habits and vigorous physical activity For both sexes, to have a higher number of sexual partners were mostly younger, single, and who was economically better off or otherwise in difficulty. Not only that: between the habits of the ‘farfalloni’ there is also the smoke and the consumption of alcohol with greater frequency, and the performance of intense physical activity on a weekly basis.