sex burns how many calories

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Yes, you heard that right. Despite the presumption that sex is exercise, a session of light effort would require you to get busy for 72 minutes to burn 100 calories. However, because the average bout lasts six minutes, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study, you need quite a few interludes to get there.