How to Ask for What You Really Want in Bed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nPlus, there's much more that affects a couple's sex life, says Jennifer Wu, MD, an ob-gyn at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "There are so many factors that go into the frequency: demands of work, partners' jobs, how often they travel for work, whether or not they work a night shift," she says. "We often talk to patients about intimacy, how close they feel to their partners, how much trust there is between them. That also adds to the quality of sex."<\/p>\n
There are also factors more likely to apply to old, married folk. "As we get older, our sex drive goes down," says Dr. Wu. "There [can be] erectile dysfunction in men and any kind of chronic illness can affect libido, sex drive, and ability to have an erection." (Of course, the odds of having a chronic illness, like diabetes, rise as you age.)<\/p>\n
And does frequent sex make for a happy marriage anyway?<\/p>\n
"There's no one recipe," assures Dr. Wu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ever wondered the true secret of great—and frequent—sex? Turns out a lot of it has to do with personality. A new study in the Journal of Research in Personality found that couples in which the wife was more "agreeable" (meaning nice, sympathetic, and affectionate) and open to new things tended to have sex more often. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}