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TV in the bedroom halves your sex life - study
Yahoo ^ | 1/16/2006 | Reuters

Posted on 01/16/2006 10:15:09 AM PST by RockinRight

ROME (Reuters) - Thinking of buying a TV for the bedroom? Think again -- it could ruin your sex life.

A study by an Italian sexologist has found that couples who have a TV set in their bedroom have sex half as often as those who don't.

"If there's no television in the bedroom, the frequency (of sexual intercourse) doubles," said Serenella Salomoni whose team of psychologists questioned 523 Italian couples to see what effect television had on their sex lives.

On average, Italians who live without TV in the bedroom have sex twice a week, or eight times a month. This drops to an average of four times a month for those with a TV, the study found.

For the over-50s the effect is even more marked, with the average of seven couplings a month falling to just 1.5 times.

The study found certain programmes are far more likely to impede passion than others. Violent films will put a stop to sexual relations for half of all couples, while reality shows stem passion for a third of couples.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: italy; marriage; sex; television; tv
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Just found this kinda funny. Who does these studies???

"Honey, wanna have sex, or watch "Everybody Loves Raymond?"

1 posted on 01/16/2006 10:15:10 AM PST by RockinRight
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To: RockinRight

Of course I guess it depends on WHAT you watch on TV...somehow watching "Roseanne" probably has a more detrimental effect than "Desperate Housewives..."


2 posted on 01/16/2006 10:16:00 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: RockinRight

What's a sex life?


3 posted on 01/16/2006 10:16:38 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: RockinRight

If we put TWO TVs in every school classroom, would it result in total teen abstinence?



/sarc


4 posted on 01/16/2006 10:16:49 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: RockinRight
How 'bout a microwave in the bedroom?

A 'fridge?

Espresso machine?
5 posted on 01/16/2006 10:17:27 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: RockinRight
#1) I refuse to have a television in the bedroom because the bedroom is supposed to be for husbands and wives...not to watch TV in!

#2) Italian sexologist made me giggle.

6 posted on 01/16/2006 10:17:38 AM PST by arizonarachel
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To: RockinRight

Which came first, the lack of sex, or the TV?


7 posted on 01/16/2006 10:17:55 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Terrorists love Democrats)
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To: arizonarachel

I would agree.

Italian Sexologist? Kinda like French Hygienist?


8 posted on 01/16/2006 10:18:41 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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TV in the bedroom halves your sex life - study

Half as often or half as long?

"Hurry up, Dear. The commercial's almost over."

9 posted on 01/16/2006 10:18:45 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: aynrandfreak

Interesting question...

The idea is to cuddle up in the living room, watch a movie, then head up to the bedroom where there's no TV and entertain one another in more intimate ways...


10 posted on 01/16/2006 10:19:33 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: RockinRight

I think I'll try getting rid of every TV in the house.


11 posted on 01/16/2006 10:19:52 AM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: RockinRight

A single male parent with a seven year old daughter in the house completely eliminates a sex life. I'd be happy with what the folks with the TV in the bedroom are getting.


12 posted on 01/16/2006 10:20:05 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: RockinRight
On the other hand, if you see a good commercial...

13 posted on 01/16/2006 10:20:12 AM PST by TheBigB ("Pitts. has no chance indoors against Indy. NONE."~~maineman)
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To: RockinRight

I hear that deafness also assists in the later years of marriage as well! :-)


14 posted on 01/16/2006 10:20:23 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: RockinRight

TV comes with a power switch. Unless it is the superbowl, show me a man that would choose a sitcom over sex.


15 posted on 01/16/2006 10:20:31 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: RockinRight

hmmmm


16 posted on 01/16/2006 10:20:49 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: A CA Guy

Blindness too?


17 posted on 01/16/2006 10:21:05 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: RockinRight

I think it depends on where you put the remote...


18 posted on 01/16/2006 10:21:30 AM PST by talleyman (Kerry & the Surrender-Donkey Treasoncrats - trashing the troops for 40 years.)
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To: Calpernia

I think it's the women watching Lifetime that is causing the problem. Women generally don't want sex after watching "The Golden Girls" or the movie of the week about the latest battered woman...


19 posted on 01/16/2006 10:21:58 AM PST by RockinRight ("It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc" - Coulter)
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To: Blurblogger

Ha! That was a good one Blur!!!


20 posted on 01/16/2006 10:22:03 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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