16 Jul 2020

Make-up sex is a movie driven myth

From Afternoons, 1:30 pm on 16 July 2020

In one of the first studies of its kind on so-called make-up sex, University of Auckland and Florida State University researchers surveyed 107 heterosexual newly-wed couples in America and followed up six months later to detect any changes over time.

Researcher Jessica Maxwell talks to Jesse about what they found through their study, and it's not how its portrayed in the movies.

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