A purported link between money and intimacy makes us rethink the gold-digger stereotype.

You may not want to be so quick to judge so-called "gold diggers." According to the findings of a new study, the more money a woman’s partner makes, the more orgasms that woman has. So forget the shallow stereotype of a young, beautiful woman picking an older, rich man for material interests — she could really be interested in the physical connection.

Researchers from Newcastle University in England analyzed the world’s biggest survey about lifestyles to look at the relationship between wealth and the enjoyement of sex. The Chinese Health and Family Life Survey questioned 5,000 participants about their personal lives, sex lives, income and other factors. Of the 1,534 women with husbands and boyfriends, the lead researcher found that 121 of these women reported always having orgasms during sex, 408 said they "often" had orgasms, 762 "sometimes" had orgasms while 243 had them rarely or never. There was one factor that stood out to be the most influential in achieving the big "O": the income of their partner.

"We found that increasing partner income had a highly positive effect on women’s self-reported frequency of orgasms," Dr. Thomas Pollet said in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Pollet also explains that women may be more prone to feeling satisfaction in bed with wealthier gentlemen because of an "evolutionary" instict — in which we associate a man’s big wallet as an indicator that he can take good care of us and our offspring. (Click here for examples of 50ish, 60ish and 70ish men — including Larry King and Donald Trump — with younger wives and beautiful babies).

Sorry, gentlemen. We know this is not the kind of study you want to hear about during a recession. Click here to read more on the findings.