Q. During sex, I have an issue with yawning. As soon as we settle down, I start yawning big time. I explain it as an oxygen debt, nothing more, but it’s confusing to my lover. Why does my body want oxygen at a time like this
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A. Yes, yawning in your lover’s face could be a bit deflating, as if you’re saying “Can we move it along? I’m in the middle of the new Janet Evanovich.”
Good try with that whole “oxygen debt” thing, though. It sounds kind of scientific and a little like you are prepping for the sex equivalent of freestyle wrestling. Woo hoo! But you’re wrong. It’s not that your body wants oxygen at a time like that, your body wants oxygen … well, all the time and if you wanted more, you wouldn’t yawn, you’d just breath more deeply and rapidly.
No, yawning during sex has a much more interesting — and encouraging — explanation.
Sometimes, to do certain studies, scientists have to make horny mice. (Instead of wheel running and dissection, some lab mice luck out and spend their lives in the equivalent of Hugh Hefner’s smoking jacket.) And do you know how scientists can tell if the mice are in the mood? They check for “stretching and yawning behaviors.”
Yawning, argues Dr. Robert Provine, a neuroscientist, professor of psychology, and yawning expert (yes, yawning expert) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is an evolutionary trait conserved across all
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