研究显示:每周一次性生活更幸福

Are you having enough sex? You might have wondered if you should up your bedroom activity after reading about other couples' resolutions to have sex every day or about all the health benefits of getting horizontal.

你有足够的性生活吗？在了解了有的伴侣之间决定每天做爱、或是知道性爱带来的健康益处之后，你可能会思考是不是应该增加你的房事频率。

In what might be welcome news for everyone exhausted from work and frazzled from kids, research suggests you don't have to get down every day to reap the rewards of sex, at least in terms of happiness and relationship closeness.

研究表明，至少从获取愉悦感和增进感情两方面来说，不是必须每天都啪啪啪才好的，这对因工作而疲惫不堪或者因带孩子而劳心费神的人来说可能是个好消息。

A recent study found that, although married people or people in committed relationships who had more sex tended to report feeling happier, the benefit leveled off at a sexual frequency of once a week. Those who said they did the deed four or more times a week did not report feeling any happier than those who had trysts only weekly.

一项最近的研究发现，虽然对已婚人群或者关系稳定的伴侣来说，性生活频率越高就越趋于感到更幸福，但这种趋势稳定在一周一次。那些一周做爱四次及以上的人并不会比稳定地每周做爱一次的人感到更幸福。

"I do think couples can end up feeling pressure to try to engage in sex as frequently as possible," said Amy Muise, a postdoctoral researcher studying sexual relationships at Dalhousie University in Canada. Once a week "is maybe a more realistic goal to set than thinking you have to have sex everyday and that feels overwhelming and you avoid it," said Muise, who is lead author of the study, which was published in November in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

在加拿大达尔豪西大学研究性关系的博士后研究员艾米·缪斯表示：“我真的觉得伴侣间总是想着尽可能多地做爱反而会带来压力。”缪斯认为，比起计划每天做爱却超过承受范围因此产生厌恶情绪，一周一次可能是一个更现实的目标。

The study found that sex could boost happiness because it makes people feel more satisfied in their relationship, based on survey data from two separate cohorts, including 2,400 married couples in the U.S. National Survey of Families and Households.

该研究还发现，根据美国全国家庭调研中的2400对已婚夫妇的两组实验人群调查数据显示，性爱能带来愉悦感是因为它能让人们对他们的关系更满意。

"For people in relationships, their romantic relationship quality is one of the biggest predictors of their overall happiness," Muise said. "Having sex more than once a week might not be enhancing that (relationship connection), although it is not bad."

缪斯表示：“对于有伴侣的人们，他们的恋爱关系质量是他们整体幸福感的最主要预测因素之一，而性生活频率高于一周一次并不能使关系更紧密，虽然这也并不是什么坏事。”