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.
Hey you were doing the OTHER half. LOL
You’re the one who posted the little toy and made the comment....wink wink...
And we all know why Santy Claus doesn’t have any kids?
Of those three resolutions, the only one I ever seem to keep is the resolution to have alcohol. :)
A friend of mine and his wife conceived both of their children because of alcohol.
Depends what you got her for Valentine’s Day.
Something shiny like diamonds? YES
Candy and a dumb stuffed animal? NO
Forget? Forget it for a long time!
Well, I suppose I could always drink alone ... :)
Women have a lot of pressure/desire to have a man during the holidays.
Seriously, that’s not meant as a snarky remark.
Way back in 1977, someone mentioned to me that sex was easier to “obtain” during the holidays and that was reason given.
Maybe they made resolutions to have parties, alcohol, THEN children (See first part of article).
After age 45, the only times I could count on to get lucky were old girlfriends’ birthdays and Christmas, New Year’s and Chinese New Year holidays.
Sounds like the negotiations are going your way. Invite them both.
Yeah, but Chinese New Year sex just leaves you horny again in an hour...
Ya, what he said.
Ya, what he said.
X3. But might as well swing for the fences imo and try to score teh menage.
Let us know how that turns out. Pics would be helpful IYAM.
I read the title of this thread to my husband.
About a half an hour ago.
Maybe the premise of the article is true.
;-D
At the same time. ;-)
oh my....ha ha ha, lucky, some of us are at work...
Sorry.
*giggle*
Monday is my normal day off.
We both work tomorrow, and Wed. until noon.
Well heck, what is the season about, if not love?
Merry Christmas JRBC!
I was born at the end of September.
Just sayin’.
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