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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Manre Boo on February 26, 2010, 04:24:12 pm ---Life time or amount of sex has nothing to do with marriage.

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Bzzt ... sorry ... thanks for playing ... might want to do some research next time.

In a previous profession I was an actuary (those folks who tell you what your chances of dying are) and, last I checked, married men live about 10 years longer than single men.

Yep, that's 10 (!) years, which is more than can be explained by your suggestions (why would you even make these suggestions if life expectancy has nothing to do with marriage ???).

Manre Boo:
If you read my post, i write there why it is that married people 'seems' to live longer. Those things are mere statistics. Common sense tells what are reasons for person to die.

 If you are married and eat junk food and have no physical exercise at all you die young. Statistics are statistics. Are those statistics picked from some specific age groups, or from full scale from 0-110?

People who die under 18 propably never are married, so those people are straight out from marriage deaths. Same goes to people over 50 who propably have divorced and hence singles, when they die they die single so thats more deaths against single persons. This kind of statistics are really not saying anything that connects to real world.
 

saint:
Married men live longer and have more and better sex  ;D

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_6_118/ai_71250700/

--- Quote --- Waite and Gallagher's book is neither theological nor philosophical. It never defines marriage or traces its origins and development in Western society and thought. This is a book about data--lots of it--on the consequences of marriage.

Take health: mortality rates are 50 percent higher for unmarried women and 250 percent higher for unmarried men than they are for married women and men. Married surgical patients are less likely to die than the unmarried. Of men matched in every respect except marital status, nine out of ten married men who were alive at age 48 made it to 65; only six out often bachelors lived to the usual retirement age. Nine out of ten married women alive at age 45 made it to 65, while only eight of ten unmarried women did.

The selection effect--that is, the likelihood that healthier people get married and less healthy people don't--explains some of the difference, but not all. According to Waite and Gallagher, the evidence shows that married people start practicing healthier lifestyles after they marry. "Researchers find that the married have lower death rates, even after taking initial health status into account. Even sick people who marry live longer than their counterparts who don't." Marriage is also better for your health because married people take more responsibility for one another even than those who cohabit. They nag each other more, remind their partners of appointments and take care of each other when sick. Marriage also generally reduces stress and boosts the immune system.

What about sex? Many people believe that marriage dampens the sex life, and for some it doubtless does. But most married couples have much better sex and more of it than singles. According to a University of Chicago National Sex Survey, 43 percent of married men reported having sex at least twice a week, while only 1.26 percent of single men not cohabiting had sex that often. Single men were 20 times more likely to be celibate than married men. Familiarity does not dampen sexual ardor; indeed, Waite and Gallagher argue that marriage facilitates sexual activity. Sex is easier for married couples. Any single "act of sex costs them less in time, money and psychic energy. For the married, sex is more likely to happen because it is so easy to arrange and so compatible with the rest of their day to day life."

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saint:
Married men live longer, have more and better sex, and are better off financially!

http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/benefits_of_marriage_and_commitment/index.php

--- Quote ---If you're susceptible to vice, find a wife. She'll save you from yourself—and improve your life—in a variety of ways. Notably, she'll . . .

1. Increase Your Pay
A Virginia Commonwealth University study found that married men earn 22 percent more than their similarly experienced but single colleagues.

2. Speed Up Your Next Promotion
Married men receive higher performance ratings and faster promotions than bachelors, a 2005 study of U.S. Navy officers reported.

3. Keep You Out of Trouble
According to a recent U.S. Department of Justice report, male victims of violent crime are nearly four times more likely to be single than married.

4. Satisfy You in Bed
In 2006, British researchers reviewed the sexual habits of men in 38 countries and found that in every country, married men have more sex.

5. Help You Beat Cancer
In a Norwegian study, divorced and never-married male cancer patients had 11 and 16 percent higher mortality rates, respectively, than married men.

6. Help You Live Longer
A UCLA study found that people in generally excellent health were 88 percent more likely to die over the 8-year study period if they were single.

Read more: http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/benefits_of_marriage_and_commitment/index.php#ixzz0ggRPXqUM


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Manre Boo:
That text mostly only says same thing I said in my previous posts. If you eat healthy and exercise you live longer. It has nothing to do with marriage, every single person chooses how he/she lives. As I stated in my second post if I remember correctly, I wrote that IF PERSON CHOOSES TO LIVE SENSIBLE / HEALTHY LIFE there is nothing that will prevent him living as long / longer life than married person. Sure majority of single people might be homeless/ugly/sick/handicapped etc etc. You can remove those from list, I am talking about normal guy who chooses to live healthy life but not go for marriage / children. I stated this clearly when I posted I hope.

As for what comes to sex. Having a short time girlfriend/girlfriends is not marriage for example.


--- Quote --- They nag each other more, remind their partners of appointments and take care of each other when sick. Marriage also generally reduces stress and boosts the immune system.
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Umm. What I have seen in real life, marriage generates way more stress than it reduces.

But whatever. You like to read science books and statistics and forgot about what real life is like. You can choose any path you like and be happy, but statistics don't really work with real life. Every single human is different thing and cannot be categorized with statistics truely.

Anyway we are talking about different cultures here too propably since I got scandinavian perspective, and you got North American perspective I believe, so we see things much too differently. Maybe scandinavian statistics would show that married people indeed die younger and have less sex than unmarried? Haven't really checked out because I trust only my own eyes what I see around me and who is happy and who is not. :)
 :cheers:

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