HAVING sex often while getting older improves brain function, a study found.

Those who still have weekly romps performed better in verbal and visual tests.

Older people who still have weekly romps were able to perform better in verbal and visual tests

Researchers studied 73 people aged between 50 and 83 who filled in questionnaires on how regularly they had sex over 12 months.

Their vocabulary and ability to see objects in their mind's eye and the spaces between them were then measured.

Those among the 28 men and 45 women having more sex had higher scores, Coventry and Oxford universities found.