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Prickly park bushes and airplane vacu-flush toilets may not be all that conducive to the delicacy of orgasm making. But for some people-many people, according to sex surveys-locking privates in a public place is a highly memorable experience.
Naturally, you're going to hope the memory doesn't involve an arrest-or blood poisoning, (which I almost died of when things got frisky in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, and I impaled my shin on a 2-inch cactus needle.)
There's just something deliciously erotic about wanting each other so badly that your better sense bails, and all you can do is scramble lustily for a place where no one will see you to quickly drop trou. Of course, the fact that someone might see you, only spanks up the heat. In a 2006 survey of 77,895 adults conducted by Elle Magazine and MSNBC.com, 22 percent said they'd snuck sex in a public place.
It was another survey that recently caught my eye, though. This one queried 5,000 librarians on their sex habits (funny right there), and found that 20 percent had grabbed a shag in the stacks. "Oh, I don't think they were doing it on the job. I think it probably happened during college," says the author, Will Manley, a 60-year-old former librarian, who only agreed to talk to me if I didn't interfere with his nap or golf game. Manley, it turns out, ran the sex questionnaire back in 1992 for his humor column in the now-defunct Wilson Library Bulletin. The whole thing was tongue-in-cheek, but he was fired for it. A week ago, he decided to release the never-published results on his blog.
My favorite question is actually No. 13, where he asked which Shakespearean title best described the librarians' first time. Twenty-eight percent chose Comedy of Errors. For 22 percent, it was Much Ado About Nothing. Sadly, says Manley, 6 percent picked Rape of Lucrece.
But back to the library-that's a classic nookie spot (beyond getting away from dorm-mates, there's a certain titillation to getting it on under the musty watch of, say, Thomas Paine or Fredriech Nietzsche.) So, famously, is the airplane, which has it's own Mile High Club. Trains, beaches, restaurant bathrooms, the office, and hot tubs (32 percent of the librarians did it there) are all common public sex destinations. And then there are the more creative locales. A couple tells Men's Health did it on a diving board (o-kay...). Ask Men suggests a cemetery. My girlfriend dated a guy who wanted to rendezvous atop a construction crane (she demurred). I've heard of gondolas and hot air balloons. Speaking of heights, Manley found that 8 percent of his subjects did it in an elavator, which surprised him enough to ask why. "Turns out," he says, "there were two moves around that time. One was Fatal Attraction, and the other was Class, and both had elevator scenes." We're talking see-through and glass.
How, I ask him? I mean that's got to be a pretty high skyscaper even for the quickest of quickies.
"You're asking me?," he says, cracking up.
Take the poll, and let's hear what other wild places you've done it. Was it worth it? Were you caught?
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