A new research reports that healthier men prefer sex more frequently, in comparison to their unhealthy male counterparts.

Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, a professor who led the research said, "If you are a man diagnosed with diabetes or high blood pressure and I tell you that you need to lose weight and take medication, and I can say the benefit is five extra years of sex life, you might be more inclined to do what I tell you,".

The paper was published in the British Medical Journal and was sponsored by the nonprofit Institute of Medicine. The paper studied secondary data from two previous published papers that incorporated 6,000 men and women, divided into two groups. The men and women were divided on the basis of age limit. The first was age group was from 25 to 74. The second group was age was from 57 to 85.

Out of the respondents, only 98 percent admitted of having partners belonging to opposite sex and approximately 80 percent of men and 65 percent of women in the group were married or living with a partner.

The participants were posed with the close ended questions like their current relationship status and rating questions related to their health and the quality of their sex life. Lindau said that she was frustrated that her sampling was “limited to heterosexuals, a typical quandary many experience when testing this topic, and hopes to conduct another study focusing on aging homosexuals, bisexuals or people whose biological sex cannot be classified as either male or female”.