Why Sex Really Is the Best Form of Exercise

As a study shows sex burns as many calories as exercise, Dr Brooke Magnanti says you'll have to up your game to "porn star levels" to work off the Christmas calories - whichever route you choose.

In the season of resolutions to improve our lives, what could possibly be better than the announcement from a study out of Canada that sex burns as many calories as exercise?

For some, the news may come as a boon. With time at a premium as everyone struggles to get back to work after a month of sloth and indulgence, working in a promise to get fit alongside relationship commitments can prove taxing on the schedule. And with women burning an average 90 calories and men an average 120 per coupling, that's nothing to be sniffed at. Read more