[mdittmar]

Americans searching for security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are experiencing enlivened libidos, seeking what sex therapists call "terror" or "post-disaster" sex.

New line at the bar:

"hey babe,hear about that anthrax threat?

[IncPen]

If any of the lady FReepers are in need, by all means feel free to drop me a FReepmail...

[lavaroise]

Putting our heads in the sand instead of going to slit the throat of the enemy.

[Glenn]

The "THH" (thirsty, hungry, horney) response to significant events including death and is well known and well documented in science. (They call it something less crass in scientific circles, of course. THH was just our giggly college way of labeling it.) It's primal in humans.

[Cold Heat]

Works for me!

[GeekDejure]

I'm still trying to figure out how to acquire 72 virgins without committing mass-murder and simultaneous suicide!!!

[2Trievers]

This story seems to fly in the face of the one that follows out of Ananova, everyone's farvorite news source.

That being said, if it is true, then I would expect the sales of aspirin and other headache medications to be on the rise ... I'm calling my broker immediately.

Stress causes managers and the self-employed to have the most unsatisfying sexual lives. If accurate, is not this war stress?

Sex problems are scourge of management and self-employed

Italian sexologists discovered one-in-three self-employed men or managers suffer from a lack of sexual desire and 64% have problems getting an effective erection.

The team found unemployed people and students are instead less likely to suffer from sexual probelms.

University of Pisa researcher Ciro Basile Fasolo said: "Lack of sexual desire is directly linked to the stress factor, reaching its peak in professions as the self-employed or the firm manager."

Story filed: 11:07 Tuesday 9th October 2001

[The UnVeiled Lady]

George Will commented on this phenomena, saying "Make love not war?  We are a 'Can-do' people, and we are going to do both.

10/14/01 ABC's This Week

Let's Roll!

[Polybius]

Lyrics: "Let's Do It For Our Country. (Our Country Wants Us To)". Grease 2

[AndrewC]

"But we'll know in nine months whether couples under stress and trauma, who are feeling insecure, helpless and needy, tend to look to sex as a way of comforting and bonding.

Shades of Bonobos!

The Bonobo Way

Peace Through Pleasure

[ReaganCowboy]

I seems to me that 'pre-disaster sex, bonding' is a relief from fear too.

The fear of otherwise not getting any!

badda-bing badda boom!!

[ValerieUSA]

Karen Shanor, a D.C. psychologist and author of the book, "The Emerging Mind," said she had talked to patients who have dealt with their feelings of endangerment "by finding a quick sex partner"and by engaging in "less responsible sex." "It's as if they are trying not to deal with the future. It's almost a death wish," she said.

Shanor has NO CLUE about the hidden reason why people have sex --- procreation. The so-called "less responsible sex" happens to be FERTILE SEX ... they are enacting a Life Wish, not a death wish.
This stupid creature isn't bright enough to flip burgers, so she's a psychologist.