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Intimacy perfects a man.

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Last reviewed: 08.07.2025

Scientists have once again proven that sex is good for your health. Researchers note that the beneficial effects will be especially noticeable if you make love at least once a week. Scientists have discovered an astonishing number of healing properties of sex, from prolonging life to a pain-relieving effect. Research does not show whether the healing effect of sex is a consequence of the sexual act itself or the emotions a person experiences during intimacy.

Nevertheless, sex has the most beneficial effect on the physical condition of a person. This is especially true for women. Why do we have sex? This question is unlikely to be asked by men and women during the sweetest moments of their lives. But scientists, who always want to get to the bottom of things, are very concerned about this problem. The reproductive function is extremely important in nature. It is the basic instinct and way of procreation, and also, to some extent, a guarantee of eternal life on Earth. There is a theory according to which this instinct is designed to save humanity from dangerous mutations. Each new organism will be more resistant to natural changes and natural selection. American experts decided to find confirmation or refutation of this theory. In fact, everything turned out to be not so optimistic. Now scientists are trying to test a hypothesis put forward 20 years ago. According to it, sex, or rather the basic instinct and desire to procreate, are a kind of cleansing of humanity. As a result of the exchange of genes and their mixing, new organisms appear that are less susceptible to dangerous mutations than their ancestors. Over time, only strong organisms will remain in nature, which will lead it to prosperity, and humanity to perfection. In other words, sex makes the human body almost perfect. This version was called the mutational deterministic hypothesis, but it caused a lot of talk and criticism. To get answers to all the questions, scientists from the University of Houston created digital organisms, which they reproduced in approximately the same way as real organisms are born. It turned out that the new organisms resist changes and mutations. Scientists called this ability genetic reliability. Gradually, this genetic reliability is transferred to humans.

However, when digital organisms were subjected to not one, but several mutations at once, they died, so to speak, could not withstand the powerful pressure. According to experts, this is what most often happens in life. Weak organisms can withstand one or two mutations, but no more. They cannot adapt to natural changes and die. But scientists have come to the conclusion that in the course of evolution, organisms learn to resist mutations and changes, and each time they become stronger and stronger, and the weak disappear. Thus, sex not only gives people great pleasure and is a way to continue the race, but also improves a person, making him more resistant to all adversity.

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