Elonka wrote:
] ] It's difficult to say exactly how many of the 113
] ] million married Americans are too exhausted or too grumpy
] ] to get it on, but some psychologists estimate that 15 to
] ] 20 percent of couples have sex no more than 10 times a
] ] year, which is how the experts define sexless marriage.
] ] And even couples who don't meet that definition
] ] still feel like they're not having sex as often as
] ] they used to.
]
] Now the question is, are the numbers reflective of a change in
] sexuality from how things were a hundred years ago? Or are we
] just getting better statistics to prove something that already
] existed?

I think it's a little of both, actually..mostly a change in sexuality but also a little change in statistics. I will tell you that from personal experience, things change when you're married (or in my case, living together) and dual-income.. I come home from work absolutely exhausted, so does he.. and when we come home there are still things that need to be done... bills need to be paid, laundry needs to be done, errands need running.. it's all the little mundane things. I can tell you right now that I will be having sex on Saturday morning, that's "our time for sex". Before we were living together, and even after we were living together but before I started working too, it was at least 5 or 6 times a week. Now imagine being married and with children. We'll get down to once a month, maybe 6 times a year. Who knows, but I mean if I'm this exhausted now at 26 and without kids, imagine what it'll be like 5, 10 years from now? I think a lot of it has to do with a change in sexuality of how things were 100 years ago.

Then again, 100 years ago, sex was a taboo subject, you couldn't talk about this! Even 50 years ago, sex was considered a "wifely duty" but as the article mentioned, women became unashamed and in control of their sexuality! Go women!!!! But along with women being in control came women being in control of their careers, women were working, they realized that they were not put on this earth merely to bear and raise children and that that was okay. Along with that came the exhaustion of working full-time.

I think also our statistics are better, as people become more willing to talk about a previously taboo subject, they are more willing to answer such questions honestly. So it's possible that this problem has always existed.. not to this degree, of course... 50 years ago I'm sure women were too exhausted for sex but they were less likely to say "no" than they are today.

RE: Newsweek: Are Married Couples Having Less Sex?

You can even become a minister online!

Beer Church Ordination

] One of four college students who were accused of trading
] songs online and settled lawsuits in early May with the
] music industry has managed to collect his entire $12,000
] fine on the Internet.
]
] Jesse Jordan, 19, a sophomore this fall at Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., saw his cause picked
] up by the popular Web site Slashdot.org (motto: "News for
] Nerds. Stuff that matters"). Money began pouring in,
] "anywhere from 10 cents to $500. I never expected to
] raise the whole thing. People are very generous," says
] Jordan.
]
] "Where the money comes from doesn't matter," says Matt
] Oppenheim of the Recording Industry Association of
] America. "Have we deterred these people and others from
] engaging in this kind of behavior? Clearly we have."

Clearly Matt Oppenheim smokes crack.

Laughing Boy

Fined student gets donations to tune of $12K

] A 10-month-old girl miraculously survived an 80-foot
] fall, suffering only scrapes and bruises when her father
] threw her out a seventh-floor apartment window late
] Saturday after threatening to kill himself and the baby's
] mother, police said.

Having a fight with the wife it just seems like a natural idea to throw your child out the window. I am just amazed at the stupid acts that people are capable of sometimes.

Peekskill infant survives 7-story fall

] Speaking of Lavigne, she took her chance in the press
] room to lightly make fun of herself as she turned around
] and pulled her pants down an inch to show off the crack
] of her posterior where the letters 'MMVA' had been
] written. This was a joke aiming back at last year's MMVAs
] when Lavigne nearly lost her pants during a performance
] and ended up parading through most of her song with her
] rear exposed.

Well since the news is making a big deal over this I might as well pass it on.

The GATE's News File: Avril Lavigne Bares It Again @ The MMVAs

] This movie comes from Working Title Films, the British
] producers who gave us "Four Weddings and a Funeral",
] "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "About a Boy". I didn't know
] this till I read the press hand-out after watching the
] film.
]
] And then, I wasn't surprised why the movie is rippingly
] jolly.

For all you Mr Bean fans, Rowin Atkinson is at it again in this new movie. I am looking forward to seeing it.

More info:
http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/englishmoviesreview/2003/june/55087.htm

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] Police sources said Alvarez-Ramos, Velez and Velez's
] wife, Thamara Ocasio, 27, had all been drinking when they
] encountered Tyson around 5:30 a.m. Saturday. They asked
] him for his autograph, and allegedly began trailing and
] harassing him when he twice refused, sources said.
]
] At some point, Velez pretended to have a gun and
] Alvarez-Ramos picked up a metal pole used to support
] velvet ropes and wielded it at Tyson, according to court
] documents. Alvarez-Ramos dropped the pole as Tyson
] approached him, the document said.

Two drunken geniuses tell tyson they have a gun and want his autograph and don't expect to get their butts kicked.

New York City - 2 in Tyson Brawl Plead Not Guilty

] SUMMARY: A new study confirms what researchers have
] suspected for some time -- women may prefer to date one
] gender or the other, but they get sexually aroused by
] both.

Yahoo! News - Study: Females get aroused by both sexes

A coworker just passed this onto me for our next in office meeting.

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Elonka said:
] I spent days scouring the web trying to find some sort of
] comprehensive list of James Sanborn's artwork, but no dice
] (Sanborn, btw, is the sculptor that made "Kryptos"). I even
] contacted his agents and asked for a list, but they said that there
] wasn't such a thing, and that if they were to ask the artist for a
] complete list of his sculptures, he'd probably laugh at them since
] there were so many.

So, I went ahead and made my own list. I guess this makes me the self-appointed head of the Jim Sanborn fanclub. ;)

Artist/Sculptor James Sanborn