{"id":5311,"date":"2012-07-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2012-07-20T02:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:47:09","slug":"why-is-summer-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-is-summer-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Summer Sexy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072012_0642_WhyIsSummer1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a heatwave sweeping the United States which got J. Bryan Lowder wondering why summer weather and sweat dripping off bodies is so closely associated with sexiness. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Estimates suggest that summer does not uniformly lead to more sex. People living in cooler climates seem to prefer it in the summer though.<\/li>\n<li>Sweat helps to spread our natural scent potentially attracting mates.<\/li>\n<li>People expose more skin and spend more time outdoors with other people during the summer \u2013 creating more opportunities for sexual encounters.<\/li>\n<li>We conflate our vocabulary and our perceptions. Warmth is associated with intimacy which may lead people to be more\u2026intimate with one another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including how sex affects sperm production, the role that pheromones play, what Trojan&#8217;s &#8220;Degrees of Please&#8221; survey tells us, nudity in the winter, how visual attraction defers between men and women, and links to several studies where you can learn more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/explainer\/2012\/07\/sex_in_the_summertime_does_hot_weather_make_people_more_likely_to_make_love_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/explainer\/2012\/07\/sex_in_the_summertime_does_hot_weather_make_people_more_likely_to_make_love_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a heatwave sweeping the United States which got J. Bryan Lowder wondering why summer weather and sweat dripping off bodies is so closely associated with sexiness. Highlights include: Estimates suggest that summer does not uniformly lead to more sex. People living in cooler climates seem to prefer it in the summer though. Sweat helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072012_0642_WhyIsSummer1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}