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"PinterestFacebookIt&amp;#39;s hard to know what, exactly, makes people the happiest, but dating site Match decided to analyze data from member surveys to find out. Some are what you&amp;#39;d expect: The happiest people, for example, go out often and avoid stalking their exes on social media. One slightly surprising statistic, though, stood out: The longer people wait to have sex, the happier they are.\nAccording to Match&amp;#39;s surveys, people who have sex on the fifth date are 35 percent more likely to be happy than those who hop into bed on the first date, and the happiest people wait until they&amp;#39;re engaged. Not only that, each one night stand per year decreases women&amp;#39;s happiness by 14 percent and men&amp;#39;s by 6 percent.\nWhat&amp;#39;s going on here? Is casual sex a recipe for misery?\nExperts warn against interpreting these results as a reason to hold out on sex. &amp;quot;People who wait until an engagement or wedding to have sex are likely to have strong moral or religious reason for doing so,&amp;quot; says sex therapist Vanessa Marin. &amp;quot;Of course, they&amp;#39;re going to report a sense of satisfaction for living up to their beliefs. That&amp;#39;s a great thing, but not everyone shares those types of values.&amp;quot;\nSexologist Logan Levkoff, Ph.D., has another theory. &amp;quot;When sex comes early, unless you work at building emotional intimacy too, people tend to rely on the sex for a connection, and sometimes it doesn&amp;#39;t develop beyond that,&amp;quot; she says. Due to &amp;quot;the ease of falling into bed versus falling into conversation,&amp;quot; people might get lazy about working on their relationships, she says, but the sex itself is not to blame.\nEarly sex within a relationship can also make people more likely to stick around when the relationship&amp;#39;s not working, says Dean Busby, Ph.D., director of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, who conducted a study in 2009, finding that couples that had sex later were more satisfied with their relationships. &amp;quot;Sexuality is obviously very rewarding and creates premature bonding when it occurs early in a relationship that then makes it more difficult to carefully judge whether the foundations of the relationship are solid and worth committing to. Some researchers call early sexuality, moving in together, etc. premature entanglements that make good relationship decisions harder to make.&amp;quot;\nEither way, Match&amp;#39;s findings should definitely not encourage you to have less sex overall. The happiest people studied were also the ones who had sex daily. So as long as you&amp;#39;re living in accordance with your values and working on your relationship holistically, there&amp;#39;s no reason to stay out of the bedroom.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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