Women who engage in greater sex have more developed brains

Research on sex and women's brains shows that performing activity under sheets has even more benefits than we think.

We may have thought that we already knew everything about sex - from how a relationship affects our physical and mental health to how many calories we burn on sheets to the formula for finding out if we have enough sex. What we didn't know, however, is that the relationship between sex and health is actually much deeper. Especially when it comes to the benefits of sex in our brain.

According to a new study, published in “Journal of Neuroscience”, sex can be responsible for a more developed brain, especially the somatic cortenx. Researchers have in fact identified the brain region that is related to female genetic stimuli, revealing not only that it is more developed than that of males but that its development depends on how active a woman is under sheet. In other words: The more sex a woman has, the more developed her brain is.

Sex and the Brain - The Results of Study

The research analysed a group of volunteer women between the ages of 18 and 45 engaged in cylith simulation while their brains were scanned through the functional image of magnetic resonance ( FMRI).

The results confirmed that the brain's somatosensor cortex region was activated in every woman at the moment of simulation. Researchers also asked participants how often they had sex last year and found that the thickness of the brain region in question was more developed among women who reported more frequent sex relations.

This is not the first time science has shown that sex is good for the brain. In 2016 a team of researchers from McGill University in Canada found that young women who have relations are more likely to remember things than their sexually inactive counterparts.