Red Wine and Sex

As if we really needed another reason to drink red wine?

We already know red wine is good for us, as an anti-oxidant and to help prevent heart disease but now it has been linked with something more pleasurable, a healthy sex life. A recent study in Italy asked over 798 women to talk about their drinking habits and their sexual lives. The women were divided up into groups of how much they drank, teetotalers, moderate drinkers and heavy drinkers. All of the women were then asked to describe their sex lives.

The women who described drinking approximately 1-2 glasses of red wine per day were also the women who enjoyed sex the most. They also felt sexual desire and lubricated more easily than the other two groups. A possible reason for this linkage is that moderate drinking lowers inhibitions but does not depress sexual functioning like heavy drinking does. Whatever the reason, red wine looks like it is a friend to healthy sexual functioning in women.

^{Regular Moderate Intake of Red Wine is Linked to a Better Women's Sexual Health
Nicola Mondaini, Tommasco Cai, Paolo Gontero et al. 2009}