Professor Not Convinced There Is More Sex During Blackouts

[matcom]

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Conventional wisdom says that when the blackout hit the Midwest and Canada nine months ago, two things happened: People were giddy in the dark, and with televisions off, a lot of people in metro Detroit were turning each other on.

The same wisdom also says that hospital maternity wards will soon be flooded with May babies.

Yet hospitals are not seeing or expecting more deliveries. A Duke University professor of sociology and fertility called the blackout baby boom an urban legend. People use contraceptives. Data show that hot temperatures deter people from sex, and in the South, before air-conditioning, fewer babies were born nine months after the hottest month of the year.

Nevertheless, the term "blackout baby" is beginning to spread across the Midwest and beyond.

It's a myth that many metro Detroiters greet with amusement.

http://www.freep.com/news/metro/baby13_20040513.htm

[hlthe2b]

1. I never got this logic....

No electricity, no air conditionings-- yeah, I'd want to cuddle up in one big sweatfest!


Of course, there is the shower.....:evilgrin:

[Robb]

2. My blackouts don't tend to go that way

...at least as far as I know. :shrug:
:D

[Kahuna]

3. Idiot. Did he ever hear of birth control?

The absense of a spike in births does not automatically equate to a lack of heavy lovin' going on.

[cheezus]

4. People use contraceptives. - no shit. they're still fucking!!

what else are you going to do when you cant access DU?