Groundbreaking study by IU researchers

[CPT Nervous]

Researchers at IU have discovered that women who have sex are much more likely to get pregnant than women who are abstinent.


Sex dramatically increases fertility : News : University Herald



Thoughts? Opinions?

 

[pudly]

I'm sure we paid a lot of money for that info.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

A new report shows that sexually active women have a much better chance of getting pregnant than those who remain abstinent, a press release from Eurekalert reports.

Thank you Dr. Obvious.

 

[CPT Nervous]

Tax money hard at work.

 

[mbills2223]

"Scientists"

 

[mbills2223]

"Researchers"

 

[mbills2223]

"Discovered"

 

[BehindBlueI's]

"It's a common recommendation that partners trying to have a baby should engage in regular intercourse to increase the woman's changes of getting pregnant -- even during so-called 'non-fertile' periods -- although it's unclear how this works," Lorenz said. "This research is the first to show that the sexual activity may cause the body to promote types of immunity that support conception.

"It's a new answer to an old riddle: How does sex that doesn't happen during the fertile window still improve fertility?"

Earlier studies have shown changes in immune function during pregnancy and after childbirth and changes in immunity across the menstrual cycle. However, IU research is the first to show that sexual activity plays a role in these changes in immune system.

In the first paper, Lorenz and colleagues showed that sexually active women experienced greater changes in helper T cells and the proteins that T cells use to communicate, while in the second paper, they showed differences in antibody levels between sexually active and abstinent women.

"We're actually seeing the immune system responding to a social behavior: sexual activity," Lorenz said. "The sexually active women's immune systems were preparing in advance to the mere possibility of pregnancy."

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Funny headline to make it seem stupid, but seems like changes to the immune system would be the sort of thing biologists would study, no?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Funny headline to make it seem stupid, but seems like changes to the immune system would be the sort of thing biologists would study, no?

OK Denny.

 

[mbills2223]

Funny headline to make it seem stupid, but seems like changes to the immune system would be the sort of thing biologists would study, no?

Honestly it seems like a standard positive feedback mechanism. Sure it's interesting and all but to me not worth studying. I can be.a bit of a supremacist when it comes to science though lol

 

[mbills2223]

OK Denny.

Lmao

 

[BehindBlueI's]

OK Denny.

First, I'd like to thank the judges...

 

[17 squirrel]

Funny, I would have thought Alfred would have would have written about this when he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I believe I will offer to make a contribution to science by applying for a huge federal grant and a group of attractive coeds to test this theory!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Kinda presumptuous, doncha think? These things are handed out on a daily basis!

First, I'd like to thank the judges...