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March 24, 2006

Circadian rhythms of human copulation:

Circadia has a post about a brief study on how patterns of human love-making change during the day. Unsurprisingly, the most common times are before going to sleep and after waking up.

Notably, the original paper uses the scientific term 'nycthemeral' (meaning daily). This must be one of the most lovely sounding words I've discovered in quite some time.

Vaughan.

Posted at March 24, 2006 08:40 AM

Comments

aoeu says:

what's the pronounciation? (i'm no native speaker)

Comment posted at March 24, 2006 03:28 PM

BenP says:

It sound pretty intuitive to my-self, I don't know for you, but every night and everymorning,I can feel my sexual circadian rythms knocing at my doors ! But I'm a man, maybe it's different for women ?

Comment posted at March 24, 2006 07:37 PM

Alex Fradera says:

Try also quotidian, another pretty word for daily.

Comment posted at March 28, 2006 02:40 PM

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