There are some topics that go together so perfectly that writing about them is not only a pleasure but getting funding to conduct research must also be as easy as pie. This must be the case regarding sex and breakfast.

Well, I'm sure there is a worthwhile project in finding out if sex is better before or after breakfast, however, these japanese researchers missed that opportunity to create a link between children missing breakfast and the age at which they first have sex.

The earth-shattering result is that children who miss breakfast are more likely to have sex at an earlier age. Luckily, the researchers have refused to follow the journalistic fallacy of confusing correlation for cause and effect. There is a serious note, that a closer-knit family unit (including munching breakfast together) is likely to lead to sex at a later age.

"The survey, intended to study how to reduce unwanted pregnancies, also showed the average age of first-time sex was lower for those who found their mother annoying." This is perhaps more to the point, as if having sex is some kind of revolt at irritating parents. But is becoming an annoying teenage mother a solution to overcoming an annoying adult mother? Is this a competitive urge of the "I can be more useless than you!" style? Maybe the solution to teenage pregnancies is a regular cappuccino and croissants... shared.

(news from Reuters)

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