Apart from being fun and bringing pleasure, sex also offers many health benefits. Discover the benefits of having sex regularly...

According to Wilkes University, making love twice a week releases an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which helps protect the body against infections and disease. Here are 12 of the thousands of diseases you can cure by making love:

1. Sex protects you against prostate cancer
Research suggests that frequent ejaculation (at least five times a week) in men reduces the risk of later developing prostate cancer.

2. Sex helps you stay in shape
There's nothing like having fun (and having fun) while doing sports! Making love is great for your heart activity. It also helps tone all the muscles in the body. It seems hard to believe, but when you make love you burn almost 200 calories in half an hour. So having sex 3 times a week allows you to burn a total of 600 calories. And it’s so much better than a diet!

3. Sex relieves headaches
During sex, a hormone called oxytocin is released during orgasm; it increases the level of endorphins which act as a natural painkiller. And the body can relax.

Many people notice that their aches and pains (headaches, cramps, etc.) disappear or improve after sexual intercourse.

4. Sex helps fight depression
Women who orgasm regularly are generally more relaxed, less depressed, and more physically and emotionally satisfied.

Sex also helps you fall asleep better and releases nervous tension by producing serotonin in the brain - which controls mood and is also found in antidepressants.

5. Sex keeps you young
Sex would be one of the essential components to appear about ten years younger! In his book Secrets of the Superyoung, Dr David Weeks, a psychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, compiled the lifestyle habits of around 3,500 people, aged 18 to 102. The people interviewed in fact had at least three sexual relations per week and they all had the particularity of appearing several years younger than their marital status indicated. These beneficial effects have also been confirmed by numerous other researches.

6. Sex protects against incontinence
In women, regular sexual intercourse promotes good pelvic floor health and thus reduces the risk of age-related incontinence.

7. Sex heals the mind
Making love is a joy of life. A pleasure that we treat ourselves to, that we offer, that we share. Making love is a healthy need of the body, heart and mind that fills us with energy, tenderness and life. It's a way of communicating with all your senses and your feelings. A meeting place where creativity, rejuvenation and calm intersect.

8. Sex makes you happy
People who are sexually active are generally happier (which is great for the immune system) and less prone to depression.

9. Sex protects against insomnia
Lack of sleep has a negative impact on our daily lives. To combat insomnia, experts recommend, among other things, stopping alcohol and caffeine, watching TV less often and taking a bath before bed. Making love can be added to this list of tips for sleeping well. Men fall asleep almost instantly afterwards, and the toxins released during the act have a tranquillizing effect on women.

10. Sex protects against skin diseases
Making love regularly, therefore, releases a plethora of hormones in the body called “The happiness hormones”. And they contain testosterone. With age, testosterone levels decrease. So, lots of sexual intercourse ensures a good level of testosterone in the body.

This hormone plays an important role: it keeps bones and muscles healthy, not to mention the youthful appearance of the skin.

11. Sex protects against breast cancer
Orgasm would prevent the appearance of breast cancer. An Australian study suggests that stimulating a woman's breasts releases a hormone called oxytocin. The study specifies that oxytocin is released in large quantities at the time of orgasm and that sexual activity could, therefore, have a protective role against this type of cancer.

12. Sex protects against cardiovascular disease
Sex is good for your heart. A study carried out at the University