Survey: One In Four Too Tired to Have Sex

(CBS)  We already know we're sleep deprived. We fall asleep at the wheel and nod off at work, but now it turns out our love lives are taking a hit as well, reports Derek McGinty of CBS station WUSA.

A National Sleep Foundation survey says nearly 25 percent of respondents who live with a partner report often being too tired to have sex with that person.

The survey was based on a random sampling of 1007 adults ages 25 to 60. It was designed to measure sleep habits among ethnic groups, but responses on tiredness and sex were the same across the board.

The findings were no shock to Dr. Helene Emsellem, Medical Director at the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders, in Chevy Chase, Md.

"In order to be intimate with someone, you have to be well rested, have good energy and be in a good mood, and sleep determines all of these things," she said.

She adds that we all need 7-9 hours of sleep per night and while we get by with less, that's what we're doing, just getting by.

[enough-already]

What's all the hub-bub? Sex is a lot of work for a very short-lived reward. Highly over-rated.

[I_am_me1953]

Especially considering you have often had a long urination time that felt just as good as any short term orgasm?

[tsigili]

That may be an understated figure.

[formrusmcsgt]

I stopped using an alarm clock 20+ years ago.

My thinking was that if I needed an apparatus to interrupt my sleep and wake me, I wasn't getting enough sleep.

So I adjusted the time I went to bed to where I'd wake on my own before the time I needed to be up.

I can't prove a cause and effect relationship but, although I'm 57, most think I'm in my mid-40's........

[rwsmith29456]

There is something bad wrong with our lifestyle if people are too tired to have sex.

[I_am_me1953]

Yeppers, all the "minorities" seem to have enough energy to have sex while us whities are way too tired. Wuz up wit dat?

[m0u5y]

Could people stop using nasty pictures of FEET to illustrate a couple that just had sex? That's the last thing people want to look at.

[I_am_me1953]

You got a foot phobia?

[Justme8811]

I could do it everyday if not more, I just need to find a lady first lol

[ockham500]

any coincidence your handle is Justme

[m0u5y]

Yeah, my boyfriend seems to think that us doing it once or twice a day is normal. He doesn't realize that normal people doing only a few times a week.

[formrusmcsgt]

by SevenAngryFreds March 10, 2010 5:05 PM EST
Not too tired. Married women are too lazy.
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Lazy women find husbands too, true enough.Just like lazy men find wives.

I don't understand it, but it happens every day.

Labeling all married women as lazy is patently unfair.

[m0u5y]

Wow. Now I definitely don't care about marriage. But, I'm lazy, and I have a lazy boyfriend, and we're happily lazy together. Now, if we were fat and lazy, then we probably would be single :P.

[formrusmcsgt]

by SevenAngryFreds March 10, 2010 5:05 PM EST
Not too tired. Married women are too lazy.
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Maybe hubby gave up or never knew what he was doing in the first place......

Either way, relationships are like bank accounts:

No deposits = no withdrawals.

[taxchurches]

GOOD! The last thing we need is more lazy and stupid Americans.

[JavMD]

TWO and Half MEN, Charlie seems to make up for it !... so ladies
if your man is too sleepy to take care of your needs... email me, lol