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BERLIN - Germans spend on average six weeks of their lives having sex, compared with two weeks devoted to religious activities, a magazine reported. According to the magazine, Geo Wissen, the average German spends 16 hours of his or her life enjoying an orgasm, far less than the six months fumed away in traffic jams or the nine months spent doing the washing and ironing. Sleeping was the major recreational activity: on average 24 years and four months. The magazine based its report on life expectancy figures and data from the office federal statistics office. Sapa-AFP

COPENHAGEN -- New research indicates that parts of the brain that govern fear and anxiety are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm. In the first study to map brain function during orgasm, scientists from the Netherlands also found that as a woman climaxes, an area of the brain that governs emotional control is also heavily deactivated.