BEWITCHEDPERHAPS YOU'RE HOME NOW, settled into your nest with partner or mate. Darkness has fallen, the hours of intimacy when smell, hearing, and touch rule. Night has always yielded pleasures denied by daylight, offering privacy and refuge. As Shakespeare wrote, "Light and lust are deadly enemies." The hour or so after 11 P.M. is the most popular time for sex, but not because of any intrinsic natural rhythm. When scientists studied the circadian distribution of human sexual behavior, they found that the majority of sexual encounters took place at bedtime solely because of the rigidity of work schedules and family obligations. (Just what qualifies as bedtime may be an issue for couples. Not surprisingly, research suggests that couples with incompatible chronotypes—larks paired with owls—rate their marriages as less satisfactory than well-matched couples, with more arguing, less time spent on shared activities, and less frequent sex.)Unlike our mammalian relatives, who generally time their sexual acts to maximize reproductive success, our cultural clocks and habits have corralled sexual behavior so that our preferred time for sex is rooted in expediency rather than drive; it doesn't mesh particularly well with our natural hormonal rhythms or fertility cycles.
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