So How Many Calories Do You Burn When You Have Sex?

It's hard to put an exact figure on how many calories shagging burns - it has previously been predicted that having sex can burn over 200 calories, others say it probably burns about 69 - oi, oi!

However, in a study about obesity in the New England Journal of Medicine, a small reference may have the answer. It notes that a man in his mid-to-early 30s engaging in the average length of sexual activity - six minutes - would burn off 21 calories. This is based on an estimate of a person's metabolic rate during sex. That's rubbish! Barely a workout.

Apparently, however, orgasms involve a rush of hormones, a spike in blood flow, the generation and the ejaculation of a variety of sexual fluids - which all require energy. Added together this means that attaining an orgasm could burn off between 60 to 100 calories.

If all of this leaves you more confused than before, a pharmaceutical company has created a 'sex calculator' which claims to be able to work out the calories you burn during sex. I can't testify to how accurate it is, but you work it out based on your body shape and position.

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James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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