the financial cost of sex.........

[kronas]

two economists from the university of warick layed claim that money does not buy sex.

the pair published a paper stating:

"Money does seem to seem to buy greater happiness. But it does not buy more sex."

16,000 adults took part in the survey.

The economists compared the levels of happiness produced by a vigorous sex life with other activities calculated in prior research, allowing them to impute, in dollars, how much happiness sex was worth. They estimated that increasing the frequency of sex from once a month to at least once a week provided as much happiness as putting $50,000 in the bank.

A lasting marriage offers about $100,000 worth of happiness a year. Divorce, on the other hand, imposes an emotional toll of about $66,000 a year, though there may be a short-term economic gain from the immediate relief provided by leaving your spouse.


source: houstonchronicle.com

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2673731

so what do you think ;)

[Earl of Bronze]

That researcher need to find better thing to research.

And I could have told them the same thing with the following equasion. ;)

EDIT.> file wont upload. I'll post it later. :mad:

[Ramrod]

Of course money buys you more sex :confused:

[Paul]

Of course money buys you more sex :confused:

Indeed, from the limited knowledge I have (tv, papers) then every £50 - £100 buys you another hour. :erm:

[Russ]

Wow down here it's £40 for half an hour :eek:

[danielf]

Wow down here it's £40 for half an hour :eek:

That is a very expensive sheep :Sprint: :angel:

[kronas]

im quite suprised so many people know the 'local' rates............ :erm:

edit: lol at danielf :D

[Russ]

That is a very expensive sheep :Sprint: :angel:

:confused:

[Ramrod]

:confused:yea, right......dont come over all innocent! :D :rofl:

[Chimaera]

And what a load of old tosh anyway - you would think all these 'academics' would have something better to research! :D

[Russ]

yea, right......dont come over all innocent! :D :rofl:

As long as I clean up the mess afterwards...;)

But I think I must have missed the punchline .....

[Stuart]

Wow down here it's £40 for half an hour :eek:
*resists the temptation to say that Welsh women are obviously cheap (excluding a couple I happen to know).

[Russ]

*eagerly eyes up the 'ban' button..... :D

[Stuart]

*eagerly eyes up the 'ban' button..... :D
After I just repped you as well..

[Marge]

Wow down here it's £40 for half an hour :eek:

Well it's more than I earn now, wonder what the going rate is up here :erm:

[Paul]

Well it's more than I earn now, wonder what the going rate is up here :erm:

:eek:

and I thought you worked for ntl :erm:

[kronas]

Well it's more than I earn now, wonder what the going rate is up here :erm:


im sure there will be plenty of takers :erm: *steps to the front of the queue before it starts to build...... :D :p: ;)

[Russ]

:eek:

and I thought you worked for ntl :erm:

*mumbles something about both jobs involve laying back and letting your mind wander while others get on with the job....

[Marge]

*mumbles something about both jobs involve laying back and letting your mind wander while others get on with the job....

So long as I'm getting paid for it, who knows I might enjoy it :D :D :D

[Stuart]

Actually, this project could qualify for an ig-nobel nomination. The Ig-nobel awards are given out every year to the most pointless research project undertaken. http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

Past winners include Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia for their report entitled "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces.", and C.W.Moeliker for documenting the first case of homosexual necrophilia in a Mallard duck (IE the first duck that likes sex with dead ducks of the same gender). The report is entitled "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)"