An expert has revealed how women can boost their sex drive with just one simple change.
From stress and anxiety, to different times of the month, there are heaps of factors that can impact our libidos.
While there's not a quick-fix for boosting your desire for sex, one expert has revealed a simple trick that could help improve your sex drive - and it actually makes a lot of sense.
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According to research, just 60 minutes of extra sleep can make loads of difference to your sex life.
The study - The Impact of Sleep on Female Sexual Response and Behaviour - revealed that an extra hour can increase a woman's sex drive by 14 percent, with every hour of sleep after that boosting your libido by the same percentage.
Now, we all know it's not as straightforward as simply 'get an extra hour of sleep' what with work schedules, social lives and - if you're a parent - kids.
But if you can squeeze in a lie-in, it could be worth it.
GP Dr. Hana Patel told Metro: "The results showed that women who had a longer average sleep duration told researchers they experienced better genital arousal than women who had a shorter average sleep duration.
"The researchers felt the reason for this was that the women who had enough sleep (sleep is important for a lot of our wellbeing and health) were able to have healthy sexual desire and were more likely to want to have sex with their partners.
"So sleep is important for sex!"
We previously told you how doctors have pinpointed the number of times you should be having sex a week to maintain a healthy relationship.
Now, this is of course purely subjective - after all, everyone has different lifestyles and preferences.
A study published back in 2015 in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology looked at the frequency that people had sex, and how it linked to greater happiness.
The study was based on surveys from over 25,000 Americans collected over more than 20 years, and it is the first to disprove the long-believed notion that more sex equals more happiness.
The study in question analysed sexual frequency and happiness between 11,285 men and 14,225 women, who took the General Social Survey from 1989 to 2012.
Conducted by the University of Chicago, the biennial survey showed that frequent sex between couples correlated with happiness, but it turns out that the cut off point is at one time a week.
Apparently, couples engaging in sex more than once a week didn't show any more happiness than those being intimate just the one time, and this study, along with previous ones, showed that established couples tend to have sex once a week on average.
Interesting.
Topics: Sex and Relationships
Lucy Devine