secret of the mile high club is revealed

[Amby 490]

A philosopher has unravelled the mystery of why randy plane passengers can risk everything to join the mile high club after a study at Heathrow airport.

Alain de Botton spent a week observing passengers passing through the airport and discovered that the fear of death makes them shed their inhibitions.

Because subconsciously they accept they might die while flying, it arouses ancient animal survival passions that sometimes cannot be quelled, he explained.

"Airports bring us closer to the possibility of death.

"Such an idea makes us free of inhibitions, so we make love in airplanes. Feeling our mortality, we feel more free towards sex than usual," he told Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List.

"The possibility of a plane crash can perform miracles in a relationship where there is no passion," added the London-based writer.

http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3617684.html

[Ban Hammer 13,398]

so much for my idea about it's because they serve alcohol.

[Amby 490]

I don't feel close to death when flying. I don't even think about death when flying.

[Jasman0717 9]

I don't feel close to death when flying. I don't even think about death when flying.

For some reason flying scares the ####### out of me but I haven't tried to sneak into one of those little bathrooms and have sex. Besides, with this big, fat body there is barely room for me

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I wonder if that's similar to why some people like to put a bag over their heads or a noose around their head?

[Peikko 1,575]

Some people find risk sexually arousing. I am not sure how much that's connected with a perceived risk of death during a flight, which most people know is far less than traveling by any other form of transport and how much is connected with this idea that one is close to 'discovery' at any time. I would have thought the latter but I havne't conducted a scientific study in Heathrow

[thongd4me 69]

"Alain de Botton" alias "de fly on de wall" must have had a lot of fun with "de research"

[Dakine 26]

Anyone pulled off a piece in space weightless yet?

[thongd4me 69]

Anyone pulled off a piece in space weightless yet?

- former Soviet Cosmonaut - "We are scientists - we make sex for research, not for benefit capitalist You Tube!"

[Jasman0717 9]

- former Soviet Cosmonaut - "We are scientists - we make sex for research, not for benefit capitalist You Tube!"

[SuperDuper! 230]

For some reason flying scares the ####### out of me but I haven't tried to sneak into one of those little bathrooms and have sex. Besides, with this big, fat body there is barely room for me

But don't let anyone tell you that you have a big beer belly. Just tell them it is an insulating protective layer for your rock hard abs!

Also, sit ups and crunches are not the answer. Hawaiian shirts are!

[NickD 203]

I really can't think about sex when traveling via the airlines, can only think about getting that 1/3rd ounce of peanuts. Certainly not in a four place Piper, that rocking back and forth would crash it. Now if I could win the lottery and buy a Gulfstream that can fly across the oceans with auto pilot, then I can think about sex. And screw a mile, ten miles would be more like it.

[ScottThuy 140]

I don't feel close to death when flying. I don't even think about death when flying.

I feel the same way... Now if they said people feel closer to death when driving in some major cities I would say yes I feel the same but I don't want to have sex in bad traffic.....

[ScottThuy 140]

For some reason flying scares the ####### out of me but I haven't tried to sneak into one of those little bathrooms and have sex. Besides, with this big, fat body there is barely room for me

Now that I think of it.. those airplane bathrooms scare me.. but so do those old gas station bathrooms....

[Amby 490]

I feel the same way... Now if they said people feel closer to death when driving in some major cities I would say yes I feel the same but I don't want to have sex in bad traffic.....

traffic doesn't bother me either