"Not tonight. I have a headache,"
Posted on 05/16/2004 10:08:36 AM PDT by fat city
ROME (Reuters) - Riots that dominated a G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 suppressed the sex drive of its residents and led to a sharp decline in births in the city, a study showed on Wednesday.
In the ninth month after the riots, birth rates dropped off 29 percent compared to the average birth rate on the same dates over the three previous years, the study carried out by San Martino hospital showed. Even 11 months after the clashes, birth rates were 20 percent lower.
"Violent demonstrations can cause a stress reaction with negative consequences for sexual drive and reproductive activity," the author of the study, Aldo Franco De Rose, told Italian news agency ANSA.
As part of the study, 402 residents were asked if they had had less sex after the riots. A third of respondents said yes and just over half said they suffered from anxiety.
The three-day G8 summit in July 2001 was marred by widespread rioting in which one protester was killed and hundreds injured during pitched street battles with police.
Probably not the one drawn by the researchers. There was so much action in the streets that a number of people were too busy to amuse themselves in the home.
More evidence that the left is anti-life...
You, well, you try to get it up when you're being tear gassed or bricks and cobble stones are flying through your windows. What I don't understand is how how Arabs in the maelstrom of the Arab world manage to reproduce so prolificially under these conditions--unless violence and chaos has the opposite effect on the Arab libido.
"Not tonight.......I've gotta riot".
Liberalism and communism causes impotence. It is that simple.
I don't know about that. During the '92 riots in L.A. there wasn't much else to do. ....with the curfew and all. I mean, there were only so many hours I could stand on guard with the 12 gauge.
>In the ninth month after the riots, birth rates dropped >off 29 percent compared to the average birth rate on the >same dates over the three previous years, the study >carried out by San Martino hospital showed
Still no cure for cancer.
Wow, what the heck kind of rioting do they do over there?
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