Getting rid of your TV may not make you lucky

You’ve probably heard jokes by now about an Italian study that found that couples who have a TV set in their bedrooms have sex half as often as those who don’t. But Wall Street Journal blogger James Taranto warned that correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
“It may be that people with humdrum sex lives need something to do in the bedroom, so they get a TV set,” he wrote. “Or perhaps there is a complex web of cause and effect: As people get older, their sex drives diminish, while at the same time their wealth expands, so they can afford more consumer electronics.” His conclusion: “Don’t think that you’ll get lucky if you throw the TV out the window — or that your overeager partner will leave you alone if you procure a set.”
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

11 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted January 20, 2006 at 9:17 am | Permalink

    I heard having a tv in your bedroom also causes sleep depervation, because people watch tv before they go to bed, but stay up longer than they should.

  2. Ben Huie
    Posted January 20, 2006 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    We should mandate TVs in the bedrooms of all teenagers.

  3. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 20, 2006 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    But they shouldn’t have Demon Cable.

  4. damoon
    Posted January 20, 2006 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    Admit it guys, sometimes a good movie and a bowl of popcorn is just as satisfying as sex!

  5. ProudLib
    Posted January 21, 2006 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

    Uh . . . if you had a Y chromosome, damoon, you probably wouldn’t feel that way.

  6. damoon
    Posted January 21, 2006 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    At least popcorn and a movie lasts longer!!!

  7. Jed
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 11:24 am | Permalink

    Da,Doesn’t have to! Get adventurous!

  8. Jed
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 11:25 am | Permalink

    Da,Doesn’t have to! Get adventurous!

  9. damoon
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    Jed, my days of being “adventurous” are about over!! I’m just too damn old and tired! At least I’ll always have my memories, LOL!!

  10. Ian Santiago
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    My wife and I decided a long time ago to get rid of the jew-tube for the sake of our kinder. How many young people have had their souls and minds poisoned and have ended up drug using race-mixers because of MTV and other filthy progaganda?

  11. damoon
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 7:38 pm | Permalink

    Ian, you need to get laid, maybe you’d be a happier person!