SEX AND THE HEART

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700050002-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 23, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Mr. Maury
GACarver, Jr.
1. The attached was shown to me by a
colleague and, naturally, I thought of you.
2. In a more serious vein, as I think I
indicated over the phone, Ruth and I would
like it very much if you and Stuart could
have dinner with us on Saturday, I April.
If you are free, I will provide appropriate
directions to prevent you from getting lost
in the wilds of northern Virginia.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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By Brian, 5ulli.vall
NEW YORK (AP) -"Sex
is not only here to stay," the
doctor says, ,it can help you
stay here longer."
The doctor's message is
that the old theory holding
that sex is bad for a weak or
aging heart has been dis-
proved.
Not only that, but he is
saying that there is mount-
ing evidence that sex is
good for the heart, and fur-
tiler, that men with sexual
frustrations are snore prone
to heart, disease.
"During the next year,"
writes Dr. Eugene Schei-
111ann of Chicago, "millions
of Wien will suffer from
painful, often fatal heart at-
tacks, Ironically, many of
these attacks could be pre-
vented by one very simple,
very cheap and very pleas-
ant treatnTent.: more sex."
Se.heimalul, a sexologist
and columnist, discusses sex
and heart disease in the
April issue of Forum, an in-
tel.llatiollat Journal of
human relations.
WW711ile primitive man con-
nected sex With rcjuvena-
tion and vigor, Scheimalln
writes, civilization brought
sexual guilt and a fear that
i sex was weakening. "What
kind of effect," he asks,
"does unreleased tension
have on the heart?"
Research has de-111011-
I
strated an association be-
tween heart -disease and
such risk factors as choles-
terol level, blood pressure,
smoking, lack of exercise
and being overweight, Schei-
mane acknowledges. But he
suggests, as do others, ten-
sion and anxiety may also
play a role.
"I believe," he says, `that
the best way a man can re-
lease tension is by making
love."
Sclicimann argues that rel-
atively few middle-aged wom-
en die of heart disease
and observes that these
women are - not worried
about sexual impotence.
"A woman," he says, "may
lose interest in sex, or fear
losing her attractiveness,
but the burden of proving
herself by sexual perform-
ance is not, Hers."
Sclieinianu goes on to
argue that among Eskimo
males, there is little heart
disease despite a diet rich in
especially seal blubber.
"They also get. plenty of ex-
the doctor writes,
''and have a primitive but
licaliliy attitude toward sex,
considering it a basic need
of life, like food."
Doctors themselves seem
unusually prone. to heart at-
tacks, Scheimann says.
"Doctors have a high inci-
dence of troubled marriace,"
Ile says, "arid a lesser degree
of sexual freedom outside
marriage than other profes-
sions."
Sex, Schtiniann main-
tains, is good medicine for
the heart:
"Sex activates the thyroid
gland, burns up cholesterol
and calories, exercises every
muscle in the body and
strengthens, but does not ov-
ertax, the heart by making
it pump more blood for a
short period and then relax.
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