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Sex, health, and years of sexually active life gained due to good health: evidence from two US population based cross sectional surveys of ageing

BMJ 2010; 340 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c810 (Published 10 March 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c810

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Re: Sex, health, and years of sexually active life gained due to good health: evidence from two US population based cross sectional surveys of ageing

The topic of adolescents´ sexuality is of great importance at present and the approach to this issue represents a great challenge, therefore, it is required to develop and update managerial capacities towards a more efficient and effective management of Sexual and Reproductive Health services and programs aimed at this group. The social management in each setting should be oriented to solving problems faced in every setting through the use of techniques and resources suitable to each situation, with a comprehensive and unified approach that addresses all the aspects to be changed. Adolescence is the perfect stage of life to promote changes and introduce values that assure adequate health condition and social behaviour in adulthood, so in this regard, a properly oriented social management may contribute to achieving highly relevant positive changes. All this means that the investments made in these adolescents today will yield huge revenues for several generations to come.

Competing interests: No competing interests

04 September 2013
Aliosvi Agustín Rodríguez Rodríguez
Student of Medicine. Assistant Student of Internal Medicine
Est. Michel Lescay, Dra Dalgy Groning, Est. Yaray Groning.
Teaching Hospital of Trinidad “Tomás Carrera Galiano”,
Antonio Maceo Street # 51, Trinidad. Cuba

The Puzzle of Statistics About Sex

I would like to believe, that frequent sexual activity produces
greater longevity and health. However, whenever I read such surveys, two
questions keep troubling me. The first one is, how do we know that
causality is not in the other direction; namely, that people with better
health to begin with, engage in more frequent sexual activity than do
people with poorer health? The second question is statistical. This
article reports, "38.9% of men compared with 16.8% of women were sexually
active"; granted, in the cohorts under consideration there are likely to
be more women than men, and couples are still likely to consist of
slightly older men and younger women. However, this is unlikely to
explain, how men manage to engage in intercourse at a rate double that of
their female partners. Could it be, that when questioned, men are more
likely than women to exaggerate their sexual activity?

Competing interests:
Male gender

Competing interests: No competing interests

12 March 2010
Joseph More
Retired
Waltham, MA, 02453
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