You can be too organized
Guys with messy sock drawers have three times as much sex as those without.
The poll was conducted by IKEA, the home furnishings people. It was part of their "You Can't Be Too Organized" survey. I guess this "more sex" result was not something that the pro-organized people at IKEA predicted. And those who are disorganized don't just have more sex. According to the poll, their relationships might be better in other ways, too. Those couples that don't have closet organizers argue three times less per month than those who do.
For the record, my sock drawer is a mess.
(Via Amorous Propensities)
I don't know, I'm thinking about causality here. I think they may have the causality flipped.
Three times as much sex. Let's be conservative and say that this corresponds to no additional time spent on non-sexual relationship activities. Let's further be conservative and assume that these are not the longest, most involved sexual encounters in the world -- let's say half an hour, that's pretty minimal, right? (If you don't find this minimal, don't tell me, I don't want to know.) So for each time, Guy A is spending half an hour on sex and Guy B is spending an hour and a half on sex. That's an hour that Guy A has extra for every single time he has sex.
How long does it take to organize your sock drawer? Not too long, I'd imagine. Less than two or three hours a week, certainly. Less than an hour a week, even. Possibly less than an hour a month. I'll bet Guy A could even have a tidier spice rack in the bargain. He could learn to speak Korean. He could take up the ukulele. And still have a tidy sock drawer.
Why are the sexually less-active not more interesting than they are, on the average, is what I want to know. I mean, yes, if you're interesting, you might have an easier time finding people who, well, find you interesting...but still, it just seems like time constraints could contribute. Maybe. A little.
Maybe I just don't know enough about people's sex lives to be able to tell. I'm totally okay with that idea.
I think I've spent too much time contemplating the comparative hours now. I'm going to do something else.
Posted by Mris on November 14 2002 10:41
=v= I'm waiting for the inevitable spam about secret Kama Sutra techniques for sullying one's sock drawer.
Posted by Jym on December 1 2002 10:19