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Less stress, more sex!
The back rub is more than a prelim to sex. It's healthy-for both of you. Utah researchers found that affectionate contact lowers stress markers. Couples who used affectionate touching, like massage, for 30 minutes three times a week, lowered levels of the stress-related enzyme, alpha-amylase by 34 per cent. "Oxytocin, a hormone released during touch, is thought to counteract stress," says study author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD. Trade back rubs.

Tune out temptation
Researchers at McGill University found that men who think about ways to protect their relationships are less likely to ogle hot women. Men asked to develop solutions to sexual temptation were more likely to avoid images of attractive women in virtual reality than participants who thought about solving academic problems.

Read more, attract her
Women think intelligent men are sexy. Researchers at the University of California at Davis asked 204 women to watch as men played Frisbee, read news headlines and explained why they would make good dates, and discussed life on Mars. After controlling for physical attractiveness, the researchers found that the smarter men were ranked as more appealing as boyfriends and for one-night stands. Intelligence is associated with success, says study author Mark D Prokosch, PhD. It shows that a man can provide material benefits now, and later he could pass on these desirable traits to his offspring.

Signs
(Understand the chemistry)
Dunk anxiety
Highly anxious men have an almost 80 per cent higher risk of death from respiratory disease than men who relax, but stressed women show no such risk, say Danish researchers. Stress suppresses immunity.

Hear less
Men are 5.5 times more likely to suffer from hearing loss than women, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Men have higher rates of high frequency hearing loss, possibly from portable music players cranked up too loud.

Fact of life 
22.9 years is the average age at which Indian men lose their virginity
Source: 2007 Global Sex Report/ Durex