The bachelor's advantage

I knew it: Bachelors have an advantage over those who have tied the knot, whether officially or otherwise. And now science has proven it, of course under certain circumstances. According to reports in some papers, sharing a bed with someone else makes one dull due to lack of good sleep - that is, especially if you are male [1,2]. This finding has nothing to do with having either raucous sex all night long or not.

Sleeping is rather a selfish thing - one does it best by oneself, in one's own bed under one's own duve. If cuddling or something more explicitly exciting is calling for the communal bed, let no man stand in one's way. But when it is time for sleeping, then for heaven's sake, the individual bed is the preferred instrument above all else.

I can attest to the poking and pulling that go on when two people try to get the better of a double bed and a single duve. There is nothing comforting about that. It is a pain in the neck, the ribs, the face, the you-know-where. Yes, I can. I do score the occasional luck you know.

So, bachelors rule and those couples too who have the sense to sleep in separate beds when not going like rabbits.