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A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine is giving stoners reason to celebrate.
According to CNN, after hearing persistent rumors about marijuana use negatively affecting performance in the bedroom, Dr. Michael Eisenberg, an associate professor of urology at the Stanford University Medical Center, decided to test his patients’ hypothesis and ended up with a rather encouraging result.
“Usually, people assume the more frequently you smoke, the worse it could be when it came to sex, but in fact, we learned the opposite was true,” Eisenberg told CNN.
Bucking the fake news about stoners being lazy lovers, Eisenberg took a deep dive into the latest National Survey on Family Growth, a recurring government survey that looks at a huge range of social topics, including both recreational drug use and sexual proclivities.
Correlating frequency of cannabis consumption and sexual experience, Eisenberg found that women who never used cannabis had sex an average of 6 times in a four week period, while women who got stoned everyday reported an average of 7.1 intimate encounters in the same time frame.
In men, that same…
