Living with a woman improves your sex life, married or not

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Carol Forsloff - Science tells us fellows who want to have a better sex life should live with a woman.  That means the guy who sticks around for awhile in the home will likely have a smile on his face longer than those who have just one-night stands. 

Now fellows might deny it, because of that phrase, "I have to have my space."  But this "use it or lose it" story should get your attention, especially since science also tells us it does not matter whether you are married or not.  The "use it or lose it" message in this case has to do really with male fertility.

Furthermore the permanency of the living relationship itself is not affected by whether or not the guy is married.  This is what a British newspaper reported recently.  

"David Cameron's ambition to reward marriage through the tax system is called into question with the publication of research concluding that marriage does not make relationships between parents more stable.

While cohabiting parents are more likely to split up than married ones, the study states that there is little evidence that marriage itself creates a more stable relationship between parents or that encouraging more people to get married would result in fewer couples splitting up."

So just living together, even without marriage, creates more stability itself.  Now let's move on to that titillating stuff. 

Females affect the environment of the spermatogonial stem cells, according to research scientists at the Dairy and Animal Society Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This, they say, comes about through the male’s endocrine and nervous systems. Other parts of the male mouse are also likely involved, but these are the key systems.

Scientists say the results of their research can have real implications on the maintenance of male fertility in animal and possibly human populations. In their experiment they housed male and female mice together for 16 to 32 months, with each male placed with a new female every two months to check out its ability to impregnate females. The males continued to maintain their fertility six months longer than male mice who lived by themselves. On the other hand, scientists found that once fertility began to drop at 32 months of age, the drop was the same for both those male mice that lived with females and those that didn’t.

Well, this is certainly good news for the guys, particularly for those who want rotation, i.e. just living with the chick for awhile, before moving on to the next.  At least if they turn out to be like those mice.