A conservative fitness influencer went viral in December for sharing what he’d learned over eight years of working out: “If you’re not horny, you’re not healthy.”
The simple comment from Jack Bly garnered nearly 80,000 “likes” on Twitter and nearly 9 million views.
Every fitness lesson I learned after 8 years in the gym:
1. If you’re not horny, you’re not healthy.
— JACK BLY (@TheJackBly) December 21, 2022
One week prior to the post, which has since become a mantra of Bly’s brand, Japanese research published in the journal PLOS One seemed to prove his point. In a study of more than 8,500 males conducted by scientists at Yamagata University, researchers found men with low libidos were far more likely to suffer an early death.
“Our study suggests that lack of sexual interest is associated with all-cause mortality in males, even after adjustment for age, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, alcohol intake, BMI, education, marital status, frequency of laughter, and psychological distress,” they wrote. “Based on our results, we suggest that lack of sexual interest itself contributes to an increased risk of all-cause mortality, independent of established risk factors in men over 40 years old.”
The authors blamed reduced sex drives at least in part on poor lifestyle habits, from gluttonous diets to smoking.
A new commercial out for an erectile dysfunction (ED) medication, then, should leave most men scratching their heads. An attractive couple discusses how the man in the relationship is struggling with intimacy.
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