We’ve all heard that sex is good for us, haven’t we? Of course it is, but everything in moderation.

Yes, believe it or not, scientists have revealed that you can have ‘too much’ intercourse and when you hit that point it can lead to detrimental effects on your health.

A recent study has suggested that men who get freaky under the sheets often significantly reduce the risk of heart disease in later life – fellas, shoot your shot and explain that you having sex today is a matter of life and death in years to come.

It’s like the skit in Ricky Gervais 2009 comedy The Invention of Lying where he pretends that the world is ending and so he has to bed a stranger.

Anyway, back to it. Scientists from China came to the conclusion citing that the reasoning was tied to the fact that engaging in sexual activity gets the heart pumping, improves circulation, and helps reduce stress, all things that are great for the heart.

The researchers noted in the Journal of Scientific Reports last December that it is important to consider sexual activity as a useful indicator of overall health.

Engaging in too much sex is bad for your health (Getty stock)

The authors wrote: “Those with either excessively high or low frequencies should pay attention to the situation and seek medical attention if necessary.”

Yes, those with too high a sex drive are actually putting themselves in danger.

Researchers considered too much sex to be more than once a day and found there were some eventual downsides.

They wrote: “It’s often overlooked that sexual activity itself constitutes a form of physical activity and aerobic exercise.

“Despite the well-established benefits of moderate physical activity, evidence suggests there may be a point of diminishing returns.

“In fact, high levels of aerobic exercise may detract from the significant health benefits observed with moderate levels.”

So pretty much all things in moderation.

Having sex regularly might be doing more good for your heart than you might think (Getty Stock Image)

The study, from a Qingdao University team, analyzed several studies which involved 17,243 US adults to see how sex affects heart health and longevity.

After nearly nine years, they found that men who had sex less than 12 times a year had higher risks of heart disease and early death.

Men that have sex about 103 times a year had a lower risk. This works out to roughly twice a week. They did note that having less sex, 52 times a year, can still offer health benefits.

Dr Alexis Missick, who works with UK Meds, emphasized the many ways sex is beneficial, adding: “Never mind the ways in which sex may be good for your heart in terms of love, intimacy and emotions; sex is quite literally good for your heart.”

An OnlyFans creator has proved that it doesn’t matter what industry you work in, you can still make your family proud.

You’ve probably heard of Bonnie Blue by now but if you haven’t then I’ll quickly get you up to speed on who she is and why she decided to sleep with 122 students in three weeks.

Originally from the UK, Blue moved to Australia before returning to England in the summer – which is when she began hitting university towns and bedding the locals.

In a recent interview, she actually admitted to having slept with 158 teenagers in just two weeks.

Speaking on the Dream On With Lottie Moss podcast, the 25-year-old recalled sharing her location online to allow students to know where she’d be setting up camp, telling them: “Let me pleasure you.”

“There was a massive queue. People were waiting for over eight hours,” she claimed.

“I gave everyone a time slot. It’s like you’re going for your hair,” she told the Daily Mail. “I said you can do whatever you want to me in this slot and then someone else is coming in.”

OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue explained how her dad ‘loves’ what she does for a living (Instagram/@bonnie_blue_xo)

Initially, slots with Blue were capped at 60 minutes each. However, presumably due to her popularity, she later reduced time to just 20 minutes per man.

Bonnie reportedly filmed each of her sessions – ensuring each of the men had valid IDs and signed a consent form beforehand – and plans to post each video on her OnlyFans account.

Now, speaking on the Dream On with Lottie Moss podcast she revealed what her family think of her being an OnlyFans creator.

Host Lottie Moss asked Blue: “What does your dad say about it?”

Blue explained in a recent interview that she actually slept with 158 people in just two weeks (Instagram/@bonnie_blue_xox)

To which she replied: “Honestly he loves it, like obviously he doesn’t sit watching the videos but all my social media my TikToks he’ll have a look at and he’s just proud seeing how happy I am and how much I’ve been able to support the family.

“It’s really changed my life and my family’s life.”

Blue then hilariously told a story about sending her dad off to the pub with ‘I slept with Bonnie Blue’ written all up his arms!

She continued: “I’ve got these stamps and it says ‘I slept with Bonnie Blue’, ‘I want to sleep with Bonnie Blue’ and stuff, and I was practicing them on my dad and he was like, ‘I need to go to the pub after this’, and he’s got like stamps all up his arms to say he slept with his daughter.”

A woman who ditched her teaching job to become an OnlyFans star insists that she doesn’t create racy content just for the money.

Courtney Tillia was once a special education needs teacher, and has a masters degree in education.

But Courtney, 36, and her husband Nick, who also used to be a teacher, were struggling to make ends meet by working in the eduction sector.

At one point the couple had to file bankruptcy and Courtney’s car was repossessed.

After working as a teacher for a decade, Nick left the profession to start his own business, and a year later Courtney followed suit.

Courtney is now a content creator and joined OnlyFans in 2019. She’s since gained worldwide recognition and made $1,700 in her first month on the platform.

As of last year, Courtney had three pages her subscription site and over 60,000 followers.

She makes her double her annual salary as a teacher in just a month, earning anywhere between $50,000 to $100,000.

With this in mind, in the space of three years, Nick and Courtney became millionaires.

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While the financial gain of creating explicit content is clear, the mom-of-four insisted that she doesn’t do it just for the money.

Speaking on Dr. Phil last year, the veteran TV host asked Courtney: “Would you be doing this if all of a sudden you inherited $10 million?”

Courtney replied: “Yes. I’ve always said, because people always throw that out there as like a ‘gotcha’ question, [saying] ‘you did this only for money’. I love expressing myself.”

“This is who I am,” she added.

Nick also replied ‘absolutely’ to Dr. Phil’s question.

While her feature on the show dates back to last year, a clip of her interview has been doing the rounds again of late after Courtney shared it to her Instagram page – where she boasts 423,000 followers.

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She wrote alongside the snippet: “People can’t wrap their minds around the fact that we CHOSE this!

“We have flourishing coaching businesses and are very well educated! We had endless options, but this is the path we wanted!”

Courtney isn’t the first teacher to ditch her teaching job to take up content creation.

Sarah Juree was actually fired for having an OnlyFans page while working as an educator, but she went on to have the last laugh as she now rakes in more than six times her former annual salary.

When you think of a holiday, a few options might spring to mind.

It could be anything from a raucous trip to Ibiza to a quiet weekend hiking, or perhaps a city break to take in the culture and atmosphere. You’re unlikely to think of travelling somewhere highly dangerous, including active war zones.

But that’s just how the subjects of a documentary by director Vita Maria Drygas like to spend their holidays. The film Danger Zone follows four people who take and organise trips to war zones:

Among the four ‘danger tourists’ who feature in the documentary Danger Zone is Andrew Drury, a British man who runs a construction company and is a prolific danger tourist. Drury’s trips over the last 20 years have included places such as Uganda, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, and many others.

UNILAD asked Drury why he chooses to go on such dangerous holidays.

Courtesy of Kinetoka 2024

“I like to go to destinations that other people didn’t go, I didn’t go looking for a war, although adrenaline of being in that sort of area did thrill me,” he said. “But it wasn’t something I went looking for, it’s become a journey really.”

There’s a strong sense of wanting to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Extreme situations might also make life seem simpler.

Many people arrive at a point in their life where things settle into place, a successful career, a beautiful home, a loving family, only to find themselves wondering: is this it now?

“It’s less voyeuristic when it’s real”

It’s hard to deny that there is something intoxicating in this notion, but this kind of boredom is a luxury. It’s a stark difference from the lived reality of people who find themselves indefinitely separated from loved ones because they’re either scattered across the world, missing, or dead.

Critics of dark tourists such as Drury, and war tourists in particular, accuse them of voyeurism. Drury dismisses these criticisms, arguing that society at large has a fascination with watching the suffering of others.

“Everybody watches the news,” he said. “Ukraine for instance, everybody wakes up in the morning they’re voyeurists. Anybody who reads a newspaper they’re voyeurists. See a car at the side of the road in an accident? That’s voyeurism.”

It’s one thing to watch a news report on something, something else entirely to get on a plane and travel to the location, something you might argue is indicative of a fascination with the macabre.

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Drury argues that the authenticity of his experiences means that his trips are actually less voyeuristic than someone sitting at home watching a video.

“It’s less voyeuristic when it’s real,” he explained. “For me it is, it’s interaction with people actually experiencing that. Nobody where I visit says I’m a voyeurist, most people say I’m a friendly nice guy. If it is voyeurism I’d just go there and view and never make contact again. I’m in constant contact with everybody I meet.”

“There is that attraction”

Nonetheless, the highly experienced Drury admits that in his earlier days there ‘might have been’ an element of addiction to danger in his trips, though he added he doesn’t think that’s there anymore.

He said: “I think the addiction to the danger, that feels gone. I’m not addicted. I think that might have been there, I think when I had my first frontline experience. There is that attraction, a certain amount of adrenaline must get released in your body.”

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But Drury firmly believes that he has changed since those early days, talking about his pivot towards documentation including interviewing former ISIS member Shamima Begum.

Begum came into the public eye when she left the UK aged 15 to join ISIS in Syria. She hit the headlines again when UK Home Secretary at the time Sajid Javid stripped her of her British citizenship and refused to allow her to return to the UK to face trial.

Fascinated by Begum’s story, Drury eventually managed to meet her.

“The Shamima situation, for her I wanted to know her true story, because we all read about what we thought about her,” he said. “My life is just generally normal. It’s helped bring stories back, bring back the truth about her.”

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After speaking to Begum, Drury told British right-wing broadcaster GB News he believed that Begum had been putting on an act. Speaking after Begum’s British citizenship was revoked, he told how she had ‘changed’ over the course of their time together, behaving more ‘like a victim’.

Drury made it clear that he now takes the opportunity to tell people’s stories very seriously. Recounting one such story, he said: “I spent time with a guy whose story may have never been told if it wasn’t for me.

“It’s made me a better person”

“He was in a sniper’s pit. And he was looking at houses which would have been about 1500 metres [away].

“I asked, well, why’ve you got your sights set on one place? He said, that’s my house, ISIS are with my wife and children. I look through the site, one day I might see my wife and children.”

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He added: “Unfortunately, he lost his life before he could find his family. I think that story is not voyeurism, that’s a fact and true to life that people don’t listen to, or don’t see.”

Drury believes that his experiences have changed him for the better. He said: “I think from people I’ve met during my journey, it’s made me a better person and more understanding of what it’s like to be at war, what it’s like to be in conflict. I learned to understand. Empathy is a big word.”

As to whether he has found what he was looking for on his journeys, that’s less clear.

“I don’t know what I was looking for,” he said. “I don’t know if I was looking for anything. I mean, disaster? I don’t know, I don’t think I’m looking for anything. If I’m looking for something I haven’t found it, but I’m happy. Maybe you can help me find it.”

DANGER ZONE plays the ICA, London on 14 March as part of Kinoteka Polish Film Festival and is released on digital platforms on March 22.