Money, as the Beatles once said, can’t buy you love. But according to a new survey, wealth can bring you hotter, nastier, make-you-scream sex.

It’s true! According to economics blogger Marginal Revolution, 70% of today’s multimillionaires said being wealthy gave them “better sex.” Not only that, but a majority also said wealth gave them “more adventurous and exotic” sex lives.

Gee, who would have thought that? Why do they think people work so hard to make money? So they can open Roth accounts?

The survey polled nearly 600 men and women with net worths of more than $30 million and a mean net worth of $89 million…

The survey’s most-surprising findings relate to the impact that money has on the sex lives of women…Among the respondents, nearly three-quarters of the women surveyed (about 150) said they’d had affairs, compared to about 50% of the men. While the male numbers are in keeping with findings for the broader American population, the figure for women is almost twice as high as the national average, according to sex researchers. (More than half of all the men and women surveyed had been divorced at least once.)

Fully 63% of rich men said wealth gave them “better sex,” which they defined as having more-frequent sex with more partners. That compares to 88% of women who said more money gave them better sex, which they defined as “higher quality” sex.

“This tells us that the women as a whole receive more sexual benefits from wealth than men,” says Ms. Grove.

As one commenter said, “Maybe it’s their sexual behavior which helped them achieve their multi millionaire status in the first place…”. Damn straight.

Another commenter said:

–Cheat, get caught, get divorced = money
–Cheat, get caught, don’t get divorced = free pass for future affairs
–Cheat, don’t get caught = future affairs
–Don’t cheat = lousy sex

Back to the study:

The women in the survey were almost twice as likely than their male counterparts to have “more adventurous and exotic” sex lives than they did before they were wealthy. They were also more than twice as likely than men to be members of the “mile high club,” meaning they’ve had sex on an airplane. Fully 72% of the female respondents said they were mile-high-club members, compared to 33% of the men.

No wonder execs are loathe to give up on the company jet perk? And Insider still flies commercial.

trophy wife

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