Men: Sleeping with a partner makes you stupid, research reveals

[AlphaCentauri]

A University of Vienna study, published today in New Scientist, showed that men suffer temporary mental setbacks if they share their bed because their sleep is always disturbed whether they make love to their partners or not.
The researchers interviewed eight unmarried couples in their 20s who were asked to spend 10 nights with their partners, and 10 nights alone. After each night's sleep, scientists checked the stress hormone levels of both the men and the women, and then asked them to take simple cognitive tests.

http://www.newstarget.com/019724.html

..... and I just press the logout button insted

:freak:

[Monkeyman]

1. Gee what Happen to Bush then LOL

[PSPS]

2. Better stupid and smiling than lonely and frustrated

[AlphaCentauri]

20. that means there is no cure n/t

:D

[Cocoa]

3. wasn't there a Seinfeld about this?

[TahitiNut]

4. Solution: Dual Twin (Extra Long) Beds made up into (Eastern) King Size.

Works.

[Warpy]

6. That's the compromise my folks settled on

and they made it 59 years, so that says something about compromise.

They always had twin beds when I was growing up.

[KT2000]

15. Mine too

With the bedspread on they looked like a King size but it was really two twins - one like a marshmand the other one like a board.
They were both smart.

[Lerkfish]

5. I always thought we acted stupid to GET a partner.

:)

[givemebackmycountry]

7. That's why I prefer to be stupid on a selective basis.

There's a cute little movie called (I think) Murphy's Law.

James Garner as a kind of old curmudgeon pharmacist in Arizona, and Sally Field as the down on her luck wannna be rancher who's a cute, middle aged divorcee.

They get into a conversation about sex, and Fields asks him (this is not verbatim) what he does to take care of that.

He replies that he has "a couple of women who like to cook breakfast for him".

That about says it all right there.

I have a woman who likes to "cook breakfast" for me every now and then.
And I don't mind being stupid from time to time.

There's nothing like the smell of a woman when she first wakes up in the morning.
And during the cold winter?
They are like little furnaces.

I'm such a dumb-ass.
And proud of it.

[jaysunb]

17. I'm proud of you too !

:rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. It's the left-side of the brain, worldy, more superficial intelligence

thang, versus the affective, intuitive right side.

Men's libido tends to be much higher than womens', hence their linear, sequential, logical ratiocinative powers would be more likely to be adversely affected after sleeping with a woman, and their recall better, after sexual congress.

Similarly, it has been asserted that the IQ of nursing mothers drops; again when the affective side of their nature is "in overdrive".

It seems highly probable to me that women sleep more deeply with a male partner, because of an inherited and in the US, in particular, a culturally-reinforced, if vague sense of fear of physical, maybe sexual violence. I say in the US in particular, as the US is (like Britain today) such a violent society.

I once saw on TV an American, female university professor, some year ago now, stating that American women live in a more or less constant state of terror. That sounded implausibly extreme, yet when I read here the other day about the rape stories of women in the military serving overseas - moreover with apparent impunity, if not indifference, on the part of the authorities on the spot - it seems to me to tell a story that shames the US beyond belief - and most of it will ultimately have been caused by hardcore porn and the brutish degraded culture it has spawned.

[magellan]

13. I knew you were male :-)

"I once saw on TV an American, female university professor, some year ago now, stating that American women live in a more or less constant state of terror. That sounded implausibly extreme..."

Well, "constant state of terror" is perhaps extreme. Constant state of vigilance bordering on fear is more like it. I've tried to explain this to my husband, the difference between how he feels taking the dogs out for a walk at 2 a.m. and how I feel in that situation. He has said he doesn't worry at all, never even thinks about it. I, on the other hand, stay on guard the entire walk and don't enjoy it.

This applies to going to to store as well, even in crowded parking lots in broad daylight. I feel safe with my husband next to me. But when I go alone, I take care to park with empty spots on either side and always approach the car on return with an eye for what's now parked beside me and who might be lurking in the area.

And I always carry my keys in my hand, with a few of them poking out between my fingers, to use as a weapon if necessary.

I've never been attacked. It's simply a result of knowing that criminals are usually men who consider women soft targets for all kinds of violence and depravity.

[Joe Chi Minh]

22. I almost didn't mention it, it seemed so extreme, but

(from a narrowly selfish viewpoint, obviously) it's reassuring to know that I wasn't completely barmy to believe there was at least something in it. And you sound like a feisty kind of woman too.

My wife has always preferred me to sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door! She also doesn't like lifts. I was about to hop into one today, when I noticed the sole person in it was a middle-aged woman, so I kind of recoiled and turned to an eldery couple who were slowly comming in, and asked them if they wanted the lift - which happily they did - so we were able to keep the doors open. I think the woman did. They were all smiling, so I think maybe they felt for my predicament.

Sounds like those keys make formidable knuckledusters! Though hopefully you'll never have occasion to lower the boom on some unsuspecting low-life! Every best wish to you and yours.

[Joe Chi Minh]

24. What an indictment of American society.

There are many many ways (not capitalistic, I hasten to add) in which your society and its traditional system of government are superior to ours, but I don't believe it's badness has quite reached the pitch yet where a mentally strong woman feels she has to pick her spot carefully when parking her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, and feels fear just going to the shops.

[cynatnite]

9. Interesting article...especially this part:

"It's not surprising that people are disturbed by sleeping together," said Dr. Neil Stanley, a sleep expert at the University of Surrey. "Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do."

[RC]

14. How are we supposed to sleep? Alone?

We are a social species. We thrive on touch. Snuggling is good.
"...never meant to sleep in the same bed as each other" sounds like rightwingnut propaganda.

[cynatnite]

16. Maybe he was looking at history over a period of thousands of years

:shrug:

All I know is that I sleep far better when Hubby's close.

[porphyrian]

10. They obviously don't know how I sleep. - n/t

[KyndCulture]

11. well I can tell ya....

sleeping with a bed full of cats causes the same effect.

[sueragingroz]

12. Try three cats

And two bloody big boxers (who sneak up when we are asleep) not counting the wife!

[blogslut]

18. I'm female and yet

...I hate sharing a bed. Hate it hate hate it.

[Raine]

25. So do I

I like my space and can't stand to share it.

[pansypoo53219]

19. considering the snoring males i have known

how is the male affected more?
i call bullshit.

[hopeisaplace]

21. 2 kids crawling in at night,

then it's official my hubby and I are complete idiots. :silly:

[MrSlayer]

23. The sleep of both of us is disturbed.

Mostly my fault though as I can't keep my hands to myself even while asleep.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. Pfft. Couples in their 20s have hardly slept together long enough

Give it a few decades and he'll sleep through anything.

[Deja Q]

27. And not sleeping with one makes you desperate, HypnoToad reveals.

:rofl: