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Researchers found that persons who consider religion to be important in their lives have less sex overall, driven by abstinence among those who do not live with a partner. According to the study, poorer levels of sexual pleasure are associated with having many or no lifetime sexual partners. It has been demonstrated that greater approval of casual sex or sex without love is inversely correlated with both men's and women's sexual pleasure. The study, which was released in The Journal of Sex Research, was conducted by Dr. Nitzan Peri-Rotem from the University of Exeter and Dr. Vegard Skirbekk from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Columbia University. "The relationship between sex frequency and sexual satisfaction is neither simple nor straightforward," said Dr. Peri-Rotem. "Across all relationship types, too little or too much sex is associated with lower sexual satisfaction, suggesting that an optimal level of frequency exists that is related to higher...