Can We Have Too Much Sex?
John Updike famously said, "Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” But recent psychological studies indicate otherwise: while regular sex is vital in most relationships to promote intimacy and foster happiness, more is not always better.
LONDON – “Sex is like money,” John Updike wrote, “only too much is enough.” As it turns out, that is not strictly true, at least not in the context of monogamous relationships. So how much sex is enough? In 2015, a group of University of Toronto-based psychologists set out to find out.