Sexy sexy sex videos on sexy sexual health

Check out YouTube's daily most viewed and you'll find two videos from illumistream.com, a self-described producer of "expert video content" featuring "leading professionals who provide valuable and relevant expert information in an engaging format." 

If your attention has been piqued, it's about to get double-piqued once you read the videos' titles. 

Sex: It Makes Sense (Healthy Sex, Sexy Sex #7), a 30-second video, begins with no less a hyperbole than: "Ready for the best news of the decade?"

Granted, this hasn't exactly been the most feel-good decade in human history, but when we found out that the Earth-shattering news is that sex can be good for you, you have to wonder if whoever made the video really has their finger on the pulse of world affairs. 

Or is it on a different pulse? The comely host of the video, identified as "Coach Kendra" delivers the deets: "Recent findings show that men who orgasm three or more times a week are 50% less likely to die of coronary heart disease."

Coach doesn't cite the study she's referring to, or speculate on whether it's actually the sex that's keeping men healthy, or just that healthy dudes have more sex. What we do know, though, is that this video has jacked itself up to the top of YouTube with the good ole' trick of using a risqué thumbnail and a headline with more uses of the word sex in it than the title of any self-respecting porn movie. 

The bait-and-switch has, until now, been the province of tricksters and charlatans looking to goose their video view numbers. But now, apparently, health experts are playing the game, too. (What would Dr. Ruth say?)

Just below that is an even more amusing clip. Sex: Medical Benefits of Sex (Healthy Sex, Sexy Sex #5) features expert Brooke Bennis, a Certified Fitness Trainer, apparently explicating the anatomical benefits of sexual relations.

I say apparently because the video has no sound, a new kind of frustrating tease...gah! Torture! 260,000 and counting of us are dying to know why sex is a good thing.  Does anyone have any idea?

Comments

[L Anne Enke]

You are correct in faulting the producers of these videos for not stating the medical studies in question. Their information is correct, however. Factually, there is a strong correlation between lack of sexual activity in men and the risk of heart attack. The research has been done on large samples of men, in top-notch institutions. I'm not travelling with the studies, or I would give them to you. Will try to locate when I return to New York later in the week. My quick Google search didn't give me an immediate answer. In addition, there's a very strong correlation between sexual dysfunction in men and an eventual heart attack. A lack of blood circulation in a man's body is often revealed via difficulties maintaining an erection, beyond normal aging. So thanks for putting out a fair challenge on medical references, but you're wrong to laugh off the topic. Sex truly is good for your health, and if you do a quick Google search, you will find many Wed MD and other reliable source articles supporting that fact. I just did that myself.

[L Anne Enke]

Anne here. From Psychology Today Mar/Apr 2001; last reviewed Mar 8 2006, is the study referenced in the YouTube video. I've read the actual study:

"A study shows that men who have three or more orgasms a week are 50 percent less likely to die from coronary heart disease.

These findings suggest that sex can be used to help prevent heart attacks and strokes as one means of fulfilling physicians' recommendation for sustained physical activity for at least 20 minutes, three times a week. Conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Bristol and Queen's University of Belfast, the researchers studied 2,500 men aged 45 to 59 for 10 years."

In the US, one of the leading researchers on the topic of male and female impotence is Dr. Irwin Goldstein. Attached is a link to an extensive interview, in which Goldstein discusses the link between male impotence and an eventual heart attach.

http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/222-sex-love-and-intimacy/episodes/3299-dr-irwin-goldstein-specialist-sexual

Hope this adds a bit of science to your comments. Readers get so confused in our free-wheeling Web 2.0 universe.

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