How would you like to have sex 365 nights in a row?

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Two couples are making news for doing the audacious, the unthinkable: having "married sex" every single night. According to the New York Times, "Let's say you and your spouse haven't had sex in so long that you can't remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, 'Honey, you know, I've been thinking. Why don't we do it for the next 365 days in a row?'

That's more or less what happened to Charla and Brad Muller. And in another example of an erotic adventure supplanting married ennui, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar, if abbreviated journey: 101 straight days of post-nuptial sex."

Two new books, 365 Nights, and the Nike-esque Just Do It, chronicle their adventures in marital stimulation, although, if you're looking for the dirty details, well, you probably won't find them, as the books tend to shy away from the graphic. Too bad. But with numbers provided by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago--"married couples have intercourse about 66 times a year; but that number is skewed by young marrieds, as young as 18, who couple, on average, 84 times a year"--well, no wonder people are interested in their undertaking.

Okay, call me crazy, but perhaps for the reasons detailed in Em & Lo's post about how sex writers suffer from um, overinundation, I personally, would not choose to have sex every single night of the week, even if it's with my partner who I am very, VERY much in love with, or even if it's with that hot dude from Sex & the City, or even if it's threesomes all the time, any time. Quite simply put, I need my beauty sleep. Or something like that.

Okay, really, I guess my fear about this whole experiment is that it might create the antithesis of intimacy: monotony. When you force sex, aren't you just asking to take it for granted?

"Annie said that she and her husband reached a place in their relationship that they have seldom approached since. 'It was just this intense closeness,' she said. 'We were so aware of wherever the other person was mentally and emotionally and physically."

Aww, that's sweet. Now, um, is the laundry still in the dryer? And where is my Sleepytime Tea?

How do you feel about this arrangement? Are you having "married sex" right now, or are you watching the Daily Show with your laptop on your bedside table alongside that novel you've been meaning to finish with your husband drooling on your shoulder?