Sex every day keeps the doctor at bay
Being master of your domain won't help you on the baby-making front.
An Australian scientist - who surely should be given a knighthood or something - suggests that having sex (or its equivalent) every day improves the quality of men's sperm.
Just like before any sporting event, doctors have always recommended abstinence for a few days at least before attempting to conceive to improve chance of pregnancy.
But a study by Dr David Greening of Sydney IVF, a center for infertility and in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, has turned this view on its head.
He studied 118 men with above-average sperm DNA damage and found the quality of their sperm increased significantly after they were told to have a good time daily for seven days.
Greening said it was likely frequent enjoyment improved the quality of sperm by reducing the length of time they were exposed to potentially damaging molecules.
Weird Science Factoid: Pain travels through the body at 350ft per second. Is this the same for pleasure?
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
Now thats good science. Excuse me while I go have my daily good time.
If its all about keeping the doctor at bay, Cliff Richard must be a regular with his GP?