Scientists from the University of Toronto (Canada) reported how many times a week we should have sex to maintain good health.

Previous research on the matter has found that two or three times a week is best to have intimate relations with our partner, but according to scientists from the University of Toronto, the latest up-to-date figure is... once a week.

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According to them, in this way we will maintain both the stability of the relationship and strong health.

Quantity doesn't always add up to benefits.

Sometimes quality trumps quantity, because sex is a process that involves many factors that vary depending on a person's priorities at the given moment, psychologists say.

The study authors also emphasized that it's not how many times you do it that matters, but how you do it.

And in conclusion, they urged people not under any circumstances to try to imitate the sex in porn movies, because in them "nothing is natural".

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