sexual variety is inversely proportional to happiness.... cheating husbands and wives take note

From Hollywood to college campuses, many assume that sex is always great, and sexual variety is even better.

This assumption actually has a name: the “Coolidge Effect,” named after the 30th president of the United States. The story (probably apocryphal) begins with Silent Cal and Mrs. Coolidge touring a poultry farm. The first lady noticed that there were very few roosters, and asked how so many eggs could be fertilized. The farmer told her that the virile roosters did their jobs over and over again each day. “Perhaps you could point that out to Mr. Coolidge,” she told him. The president, hearing the remark, asked whether the rooster serviced the same hen each time. No, the farmer told him — there were many hens for each rooster. “Perhaps you could point that out to Mrs. Coolidge,” said the president.

The president obviously figured these must be happy roosters. And notwithstanding the moral implications, the same principle should work for us. Right?

Wrong. In 2004, two economists looked into whether more sexual variety led to greater well-being. They looked at data from about 16,000 adult Americans who were asked confidentially how many sex partners they had had in the preceding year, and about their happiness. Across men and women alike, the data show that the optimal number of partners is one.

CHILD MARRIAGE IN MALAYSIA ---TO SAVE THEM?

asek Gelugor MP Shabudin Yahya insisted that marriage, if restricted to individuals aged 18 and above, will victimise those that are younger than the legal age and find themselves trapped in “unforseen circumstances”.

“Sometimes, if the marraige does not take place... it could jeopardise their situation,” the Umno federal lawmaker told Parliament.

“Consent is given by the Shariah Court for children aged nine and above to get married, but it is not as easy as it seems.

“Even under the civil laws they need to get consent and discuss,” he added.

Shabudin was responding to opposition lawmaker Teo Nie Ching’s challenge to the government to fulfil its pledge to ban all under-aged marriages regardless of the religion of the children, after adopting a United Nations resolution to end child marriage at the Human Rights Council in October last year.

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child brides - monstrous practices

An eight-year-old child bride has died in Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. 

The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. 

Activists are now calling for the groom, who is believed to be around 40 years old, and her family to be arrested so they can face justice in the courts.

The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen and has attracted the attention of international rights groups seeking to pressure the government to outlaw child marriages.

Yemen's gripping poverty plays a role in hindering efforts to stamp out the practice, as poor families find themselves unable to say no to 'bride-prices' that can be hundreds of dollars for their daughters.

More than a quarter of Yemen's females marry before age 15, according to a report in 2010 by the Social Affairs Ministry.

Tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.

In September 2010, a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.

Yemen once set 15 as the minimum age for marriage, but parliament annulled that law in the 1990s, saying parents should decide when a daughter marries.

Despite numerous  campaigns from many of the world's largest charities and NGOs, the issue of child brides remains a global concern.

There are currently some 57.5 million child brides across the world, 40 per cent of which married in India.

Forty-six per cent of women in India were married before the age of 18, according to the National Family Health Survey-3. 

Meanwhile, in Africa, 42 per cent of girls were married before turning 18 compared to 29 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean.

But the number of child brides is estimated to rise to 140 million by 2020 if current trends continue, 18.5 million of which will be under 15 years old, analysts warn.

Statistics show that girls living in poor households are almost twice as likely to marry before 18 than girls in higher income households.

And girls younger than 15 are also five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s.

marriage - the dictator

swap marriages in Yemen

- to the perverted: no it's not what you think, so rein yourselves in - don't get excited

it's a traditional practice - thankfully dying out now.

1 a brother and sister marry another brother and sister
2 if all goes well, no problem
3 But if couple A have problems  and want a divorce- then couple B MUST divorce even if they are perfectly happy together.

it has caused many a woman great pain because they often have to leave their children behind and go back to their parent's home