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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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So does alcohol use. Co-Inky Dink?........I think not!........
1 posted on 12/22/2008 10:56:42 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

What’s a “sex spike”? On second thought, I don’t want to know.


2 posted on 12/22/2008 10:59:02 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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Does this not make September the highest birth month in the US?


3 posted on 12/22/2008 11:01:01 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: Red Badger

But how can that be since all the coats are on the bed?

(Apologies to George Carlin)


4 posted on 12/22/2008 11:01:09 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Red Badger; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ...

BOOZE, SEX, NEW YEARS....PING!!!


5 posted on 12/22/2008 11:01:09 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: RexBeach

Why do you think they call it LABOR day?


6 posted on 12/22/2008 11:02:56 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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What’s a “sex spike”? On second thought, I don’t want to know.

Something to do with making baby sea urchins, I think....

7 posted on 12/22/2008 11:03:09 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Red Badger

BOW CHICKA BOW BOW CHICKA BOW BOW

“Come here and sit on Santa’s lap.”

BOW CHICKA BOW BOW CHICKA BOW BOW

“What would you like for Christmas, honey?

BOW CHICKA BOW BOW CHICKA BOW BOW

“Mom, why was Santa Claus going into your room last night?”

BOW CHICKA BOW BOW CHICKA BOW BOW


8 posted on 12/22/2008 11:04:39 AM PST by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. =8^O)
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So what do they all have in common? Christmas, New Years, and sex?

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

9 posted on 12/22/2008 11:04:54 AM PST by TexasNative2000 (Everything Obama does is "appropriate", therefore, nothing he does is "inappropriate".)
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""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."

Ha ha ha the condom salesman said peak...he he he he(OK, so i thought we needed a little Beavis & Butthead reference)

10 posted on 12/22/2008 11:08:29 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.)
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To: TexasNative2000

Alcohol..........This explains why more people are born in September...........


11 posted on 12/22/2008 11:09:11 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: RexBeach

yes but two things will happen. 50% will get abortions and a large percentage of those who actually have kids will name the males OBAMA.


12 posted on 12/22/2008 11:09:15 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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Heavy Christmas-New Year's sex "is characteristic of all Christian cultures in which it has been evaluated,"

...mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

....takes on a whole new meaning now...........

13 posted on 12/22/2008 11:11:21 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Recent graduate of the Road Rage Tractor Trailer Driving Acedemy.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

What’s a “sex spike”? On second thought, I don’t want to know.

14 posted on 12/22/2008 11:14:50 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: OB1kNOb
...mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

....takes on a whole new meaning now...........

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

If the narrator was only wearing his cap to bead, it's no wonder he was flashing everyone when he opened the window.

15 posted on 12/22/2008 11:16:51 AM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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To: Red Badger
sex is fueled by resolutions to have children, alcohol and parties.

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.

Others cultures have sex too? No kidding?

16 posted on 12/22/2008 11:18:02 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Jeff Chandler

That is why I call all those late September and October babies “New Year Babies.” I was one


17 posted on 12/22/2008 11:20:46 AM PST by Chickensoup (we owe HUSSEIN & Democrats the exact kind respect & loyalty that they showed us, Bush & Reagan)
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To: Red Badger

18 posted on 12/22/2008 11:22:50 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Don't forget your party hat:


19 posted on 12/22/2008 11:24:38 AM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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Sex spikes?


20 posted on 12/22/2008 11:25:03 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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