A word to guys who snore: if you make with the “zzzzzzzs” you are less likely to get the “sexxxxx..”
In other words, if a night you can’t be quiet, you may have to go on a love diet. This info comes from a new survey done in England. As the Telegraph elegantly puts it:
More than a quarter “hardly ever” have sex and 60 per cent are regularly told to sleep in the spare room, says the report at the start of National Stop Snoring Week.The British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association study confirms many widely-held assumptions and says the problem causes rows and can lead to divorce.
More than half of the couples questioned admitted that they had sexual intercourse less than once a month and said they would do so more often if the snoring stopped.
The Daily Mail gives us some more vital information that can help make the marriages of our readers much happier:
Marianne Davey, co-founder of the association, said: “In the past we have looked at the clinical side of snoring like causes and the treatments but there is very little written about the psycho-sexual effects of snoring.“What people were saying to us was that their relationship would be better if snoring stopped and it really does affect their sexual relationship.
“What we can see is that snoring causes arguments which do not make for a happy relationship. This builds up and it can have a devastating effect. The end result is that relationships break up.”
There’s more online about this but I fell asleep reading it (and someone stuck a sock in my mouth).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.