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"Not often enough" topped the list of complaints by men in all four countries while the main complaint of wives was not enough romance.


I enjoy the sweet, sweet irony of these two complaints.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-02-10T124017Z_01_SEO172317_RTRUKOC_0_US-SEX-ODD.xml



Also, here's some of the insightful comments from slashdot on an article about japanese suicides:

"I once read that in the Nazi death camps, suicide was very rare, but in the month after the camps were liberated a large number of survivors took their lives.

What I mean to say is that suicide is an act undertaken by those who are physically in good shape but psychologically and philosophically shattered. When you're starving, you think only of getting the next bite of food, and the thought of killing yourself is remote. When you have the time and mental capacity to ponder nihilism, that's when you take action. I think that would explain the third-world/first-world difference; there is not more misery in the first world, but the misery that exists is more conductive to suicide."


"Actually more girls attempt to commit suicide than boys in the US, but more girls fail because they tend to eschew more gruesome and reliable methods."

"That is because there is a distinct difference between wanting to kill oneself and wanting the world to THINK you wanted to kill yourself, aka a call for help. The numbers are also skewed somewhat because many young girls attempt suicide on more than one occasion, whereas if you are successful that pretty much means it is your last attempt.

Many women kill themselves in violent "reliable" ways, they truly wanted to die, and of course many of the women who took a bunch of pills truly DID want to die, but most who slash their wrists in a very shallow way or who take pills are really making a call for help. They do not truly wish to die and so should be differentiated somewhat from actual suicide attempts that failed (such as botched gunshot wounds, many people attempt to shoot themselves without realizing the parts of their brains which are actually essential, that should most certainly be considered an actual attempt)."


http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177161&threshold=5&mode=thread&commentsort=0&op=Change

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