Unlike lunch or dinner, there's no set time for getting it on. We can, essentially, do it anytime, anywhere, with anyone (with consent, of course), yet most of us have sex at night. It's not that we're necessarily hornier in the evening, but we've certainly been conditioned to be. Two not-so-recent studies, which have been analyzed and prodded over in the past couple months, show we've learned to nurture our sexual nature.
The first study comes from 1982, when three researchers evaluated the sexual lives of 78 young, married people over the course of one year. On the whole, researchers found that sexual activity spikes during the weekend. They then got down to the nitty-gritty: They analyzed the subjects' daily rhythms and found a 58-percent spike of action in the evening and a slight resurgence in the morning hours around 6 a.m. Nothing like a good round of bedroom wrestling to start the day off, eh? A second study, done in 2005 by Roberto Refinetti, expanded on the 1982 study by increasing the age spectrum of its subjects and introducing possible environmental variables. What Refinetti found paralleled the findings of the earlier study and questioned the possible relation to societal standards of what is sleep-time and what is awake-time.
No comments:
Post a Comment