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Sex spikes during holidays
www.wrno.com ^ | 12/22/2008 | Staff

Posted on 12/22/2008 10:56:42 AM PST by Red Badger

A study by biorhythm researchers and makers of sex-related products say the uptick in sex is fueled by resolutions to have children, alcohol and parties.

WASHINGTON — The Christmas-New Year's period produces a year-high spike in sexual activity and conceptions in the United States, according to biorhythm researchers and makers of sex-related products.

They attribute the increase to holiday leisure and New Year's resolutions to have children. New Year's irresolution fueled by alcohol and partying is another contributing factor.

"Right before New Year's Eve is our highest sales peak," said David Johnson, group product manager for Trojan brand condoms, the leading U.S. seller.

As expected, the holiday urge surge also expresses itself as a peak in U.S. births in September, according to David Lam of the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center in Ann Arbor.

Holiday intimacies aren't just an American rite, according to Gabriele Doblhammer of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Heavy Christmas-New Year's sex "is characteristic of all Christian cultures in which it has been evaluated," she and co-researcher Joseph Lee Rogers found.

A quartet of British public health researchers went so far as to liken the Christmas-New Year's period to a "festival on fertility" in a 1999 article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; inthemood; wishfulthinking
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To: Red Badger

Not if you visit the kids and grandkids and stay at there house. My wife pointed out that last night was it until we got back. i know TMI but what the heck everyone have a joyous Christmas and New Year.


21 posted on 12/22/2008 11:28:36 AM PST by dblshot
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To: Chickensoup

How high is the birth rate 9 months after Valentine’s Day?


22 posted on 12/22/2008 11:30:24 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

...and his last name is Johnson.


23 posted on 12/22/2008 11:32:06 AM PST by day10 (Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: Red Badger

Nah the in-laws are gonna be at my house so no Sex or Spiking either one.


24 posted on 12/22/2008 11:34:01 AM PST by Rightly Biased (McCain is the reason Sarah Lost <><)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

in-laws in the house not gonna happen.

I think i’ll just stay at work and surf FR.


25 posted on 12/22/2008 11:36:35 AM PST by Rightly Biased (McCain is the reason Sarah Lost <><)
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To: Red Badger
That's one fancy back massager right there. Can I get me one of them at Wal-Mart? It goes where? Honey: cancel our New Year's plans....
26 posted on 12/22/2008 11:43:52 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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To: Red Badger

Sex spikes...sounds painful.


27 posted on 12/22/2008 11:45:04 AM PST by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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To: Sudetenland

Painful to you is enjoyable to others........


28 posted on 12/22/2008 11:48:29 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: TexasNative2000
So what do they all have in common? Christmas, New Years, and sex?

Once-a-year events..........

Speak for yourself.
Since the kids moved out, every day is Christmas.
I get two New Years, one on Jan 1 and whenever the Chinese new year is.
As for sex, well since the kids moved out.........................

29 posted on 12/22/2008 11:51:22 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Red Badger

Well I am glad SOMEBODY is getting laid!


30 posted on 12/22/2008 11:53:51 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Red Badger

It’s kind of scary to say this - but I think there’s some truth to it.

In the last two weeks, I have been approached by two ex-girlfriends who asked if I wanted to “get together” or “exchange presents” one night. Both made it clear that they weren’t looking to restart our relationships. Or maybe both are thinking that by making me start thinking with my little head (instead of the big one), they can lure me back in again.

No, this isn’t a Penthouse Forum story. It’s absolutely true. I have to admit that I was kinda taken aback when I got both offers. I kinda hemmed and hawed with both of ‘em - but now that I’m thinking about it, I may take one of them up on the offer.


31 posted on 12/22/2008 11:54:17 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: 70th Division

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, write...........


32 posted on 12/22/2008 11:54:39 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: day10

bwaha ha haI was laughing so hard I missed that.


33 posted on 12/22/2008 11:54:44 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: MplsSteve

And I hoe you had the “presents” of mind to demur......


34 posted on 12/22/2008 11:56:21 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Red Badger
"Painful to you is enjoyable to others........"

Wow, you never came across as the S&M type...gee I guess you never know.

35 posted on 12/22/2008 11:56:29 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: Red Badger
As one who tried to pollinate half of North America when he was young, I can afford to wax eloquent for a while. LOL
36 posted on 12/22/2008 11:57:05 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Not me! I just report. You decide!.........


37 posted on 12/22/2008 11:57:33 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: Rightly Biased

You have my sympathies....next year make em get a hotel...ha ha ha


38 posted on 12/22/2008 11:58:36 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ..
Sex spikes during holidays

If the marriage is healthy the sex spikes should be in use all year 'round.


39 posted on 12/22/2008 11:59:47 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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To: 70th Division

40 posted on 12/22/2008 11:59:55 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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