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.
I know what you mean. But as time goes on, women become a more plentiful quantity, and men (good ones, anyway) become a scarcer commodity. By the time a man is 70, he's vastly outnumbered by single women in his age cohort, and he's as valuable as the high school cheerleader was fifty-some years ago!
Awww, our twins were conceived new year’s day this year.
Gotta love new year’s babies :)
Heisenberg? Are you certain?......
Schroedinger? He’s a “dog” guy!..........
Fascinating photo.
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