You Want To Protect Against Heart Attack, Sleep Better And Ease Your Headache?

This is what you need to do wen the earth seemingly shakes beneath you, your eyes glass over and your body tingles with pleasure.

While orgasms undoubtedly feel amazing, they can also be good for you.

From boosting immunity, inducing a radiant glow to even protecting against heart disease, some doctors argue they are essential for health, happiness and wellbeing

Here, we reveal 12 reasons why you should prioritise sexual pleasure..

Don’t believe us – ask the NHS.

That was the title of a leaflet released to university students by the National Health Service claiming regular sex and masturbation was as important to overall health as their five-a-day.

Needless to say, ‘family groups’ were not impressed.

So found researchers late last year when they caused a You Tube sensation by filming for the first time, the female brain in the throes of orgasm.

The video, taken with the help of an MRI scanner and Nan Wise, a 54-year-old PhD student who stimulated herself ‘for my dissertation,’ shows – lucky us – 80 pleasurable areas of the brain lighting up during the orgasm.

The evident fireworks start in the sensory cortex, the area related to the genitals but then quickly spread through the limbic system, involved in memory and emotion then finally, when orgasm arrives, causes the greatest spark in the hypothalamus which releases the powerful, bonding 'love' hormone, oxytocin.