Survey Overview

Trojan® Brand Condoms released the "Degrees of Pleasure" survey linking weather conditions to sexual frequency and satisfaction. The data, collected by StrategyOne from 1,000 U.S. adults and 1,500 city-specific respondents, coincides with the launch of the Fire & Ice® condom.

Impact of Climate on Frequency and Duration

• Highest Activity: Miami residents report the highest frequency (102 times/year) and the longest average duration (35 minutes per session).

• Lowest Frequency: Colder climates report lower rates, specifically Minneapolis (64 times/year) and Seattle (75 times/year).

• Shortest Duration: Phoenix (25 minutes), Chicago (26 minutes), and Denver (26 minutes).

• Ideal Temperatures: Respondents identify 68°F as the ideal indoor temperature and 70°F for outdoors.

Weather Preferences and Extreme Conditions

• Rain Preference: 83% rate rain as the best weather for intercourse; 80% have had sex during a rainstorm.

• Extreme Weather: 70% have engaged in sex during extreme weather (e.g., thunderstorms, tornadoes). Notably, 27% of Miami residents have had sex during a hurricane.

• Heat Tolerance: While 35% avoid sex during excessive heat, 66% state they are willing regardless of the forecast.

Outdoor Sexual Activity

• General Prevalence: 68% of Americans have had sex outdoors; 10% have done so in cold locations (e.g., ski lodges).

• Top Cities for Outdoor Sex:

  1. Seattle (77%)

  2. Miami (75%)

  3. Phoenix/Denver (74%)

• Outdoor Sex in Rain: 40% of Americans have had sex outside while it was raining, with Houston residents reporting the highest rate (47%).

   

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PRINCETON, N.J., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans looking to heat things up in the bedroom may want to keep an eye on their local forecast, according to new research from the makers of Trojan® Brand Condoms. The Trojan® "Degrees of Pleasure" survey links hot weather and precipitation to increased sexual frequency and satisfaction, finding 83 percent of Americans rate rain as the best weather condition for sexual intercourse, while respondents in hotter climates like Miami (102 times per year) and Atlanta (88 times per year) report higher rates of sexual activity.  While many Americans may prefer hot weather or rain outdoors, 27 percent say that tingling sensations can improve their sexual interactions.

The survey pegs 68 degrees as the ideal indoor temperature for sex and 70 degrees as the ideal outdoor temperature. Meanwhile, regional findings indicate hotter, wetter climates could also influence the duration of sexual activity. The survey finds Miamians have the most sex, about 102 times a year, while also averaging the longest periods of sexual activity at about 35 minutes per session. Colder cities like Minneapolis (64 times per year) and Seattle (75 times per year) report lower rates of sexual frequency, whilePhoenix (25 minutes), Chicago and Denver (26 minutes) report the having the shortest durations of sex.

One in three Americans say that sex is hotter when it's hot outside. But, is it ever too hot for sex? For some, yes, as 35 percent of Americans have passed on sex until temperatures cooled down. Yet despite these clear temperature and weather preferences, the majority of Americans (66 percent) say they're always up for sex regardless of the forecast.

Always up for Sex Regardless of Temperature (By City):
1. Denver	72%
2. New York	71%
3. Miami	70%
4. Phoenix	70%
5. Atlanta	67%
6. Houston	66%
7. Chicago	62%
8. Minneapolis/St. Paul	62%
9. San Francisco	62%
10. Seattle	56%

Giving Hurricane Season a Whole New Meaning

Inclement weather isn't stopping some people from experiencing pleasurable thrills.  According to the survey, seven in 10 Americans have had sex during extreme weather, ranging from a thunderstorm to a tornado.  And, while only seven percent of the entire country has had sex during a hurricane, Miami locals seem to enjoy it, as 27 percent of the city's residents have had sex during a hurricane.

A little precipitation can also do a lot for the mood as 80 percent of Americans have had sex during a rainstorm. Even more compelling, Americans might be reaching for more than just an umbrella as protection when it rains, as four in ten Americans have braved the elements and gotten it on outside on a rainy day.  

Had Sex in the Rain Outdoors (By City):
1. Houston	47%
2. Denver	43%
3. Miami	41%
4. Phoenix	40%
5. New York	38%
6. Atlanta	38%
7. Chicago	37%
8. Minneapolis/St. Paul	36%
9. San Francisco	32%
10. Seattle	26%

Americans are also making the most of the great outdoors, as 68 percent have taken advantage of the weather and gotten it on outside. The most frequent places Americans have had sex beyond the bedroom walls include next to a fireplace, in a hot tub and at the beach.  The study also found that one in ten Americans have had sex in cold places, such as a ski lodge, on the slope or in an igloo!

Had Sex Outside (By City):
1. Seattle	77%
2. Miami	75%
3. Phoenix	74%
4. Denver	74%
5. Atlanta	72%
6. Houston	71%
7. New York	71%
8. Minneapolis/St. Paul	68%
9. San Francisco	68%
10. Chicago	67%

Fire & Ice® Condoms

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"Whether it's hot weather or sex in the snow, Americans are clearly looking for variety in – and out – of the bedroom," said Bruce Tetreault, Group Product Manager for Trojan® Condoms. "Our latest innovation, Trojan® Fire & Ice®, has lubrication inside and out which delivers warming and tingling sensations to both partners, making it the perfect addition to any bedroom forecast."

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About The Survey

The Survey was conducted on behalf of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. by StrategyOne, a full-service corporate positioning, market research and strategic communications agency in New York, NY. The survey was conducted online among a sample of 1,000 men and women 18+ using the field services of Greenfield Online. The results are nationally representative of the U.S. and have a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. A total of 150 surveys were also conducted online among adults 18+ in each of the ten largest U.S. cities. For each city, the results are representative of age, education and ethnicity with a margin of error of +/- 8 percent.

About Trojan®

TROJAN® Brand Condoms are America's #1 condom and have been trusted for over 90 years. TROJAN® Brand Latex Condoms are made from premium quality latex to help reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Every condom is electronically tested to help ensure reliability. There are over 29 varieties of TROJAN® Brand Condoms. More Americans trust the TROJAN® brand than any other condom. For more information, visit www.trojancondoms.com.

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At the beginning of the year the weather was so hot and electricity supply was not regular. Literally, you could see disappointment boldly written on the faces of people and the murmurings about how terribly hot the weather was. But for some few months now, the story has changed as it rains regularly. However, the wet season has had a positive effect on the sex lives of many couples.

 Does a change in weather really affect sexual performance and libido? In order to get reasonable answers, my team of sex therapists took a survey of many couples via SMS, email, phone calls and street chats with a simple question: ‘How does hot or cold weather affect your sex drive?’

The statistics do not only show the dynamic of human sexuality but also shows how culture and mindset can affect relationship and sexual performance of married couples.

Virtually 87 per cent of couples say hot weather decreases their sex drive, hampered their libido, makes sex a no-go area and kills their interest. Among many reasons why hot weather creates an anti-sexy environment is that many couples complain bitterly that most of their spouses sweat and smell irritably in hot weather. Amazingly, this is also the period when most people say STDs are more pronounced in their partners or when they are infected. This indicates that a hot or humid environment is a good breeding ground for most diseases. This is also the period when skin infections spread. Ironically, we found a small percentage of couples who indicated that their sex drive stays the same in wet or hot weather.

Many couples have more sex in the wet season, as they say the cold increases their sex drive tremendously. Well the reason is not far-fetched. Whenever it rains, the environment becomes peaceful, cool and cozy. Seven in 10 Nigerians say the weather affects their mood, and makes them want to stay near a comforting spouse.

Exposure to cold weather and a little sunlight elevates the production and secretion of melanocyte stimulating hormone, which has been linked to increased sex drive in women. This explains why women in particular crave for sex during the raining season. Serotonin, a feel-good neurotransmitter produced by the brain, may also be responsible for heightened mood and sex drive during the rainy season.

One particular wife said, ‘To me, making love with the sound of rain outside is so romantic I always fantasise the rhythm of the rain with the thrusting in and out of my husband. It’s so awesome. As his energy builds, there is also an improvement in the physical sexual pleasure within me. For me, the rain is a reflection of a sexual reunion. And each time it rains I make it a point of duty to seek numerous opportunities to improve our sexual experience and heighten the sensations. Even when there is no electricity supply, I’m equal to the task.”

A male respondent said he noticed a big difference in his wife’s sexual outlook since the rains began as “cold weather makes sex pretty soothing.” When we ask his wife to elaborate, she said, “I just feel happier when it rains and sex keeps me warm. People’s moods are enhanced by the calming effect of the rain.”

“Cold weather equals hard nipples” was the instant response of one husband.

He added, “I look forward to any season that can make my wife shiver because it immediately makes her nipples hard. That is my best sex turn-on. Definitely when she is cold and she cuddles and warms up to me, that’s really sexy. It gives us an excuse to stay in bed more than we normally would and that leads to passionate sex. I love the rainy season; it’s the best season of the year.”

Recalled a particular experience, he said, “There was a day my wife just got back home and she was soaked to her underwear. As soon as she dropped her bag, I picked her up. When her hard nipples touched my chest, I was lost in desire. After hot sex, we just curled up in each other’s arms.

“The heat generated from our breathing drove her cold and sneezing away. We added some champagne and had a meal in bed. Really, nothing is sexier than this experience.”

Another finding is that many women give birth few months after the rainy season. Is this because of the extra snuggling that comes with the cold weather, or is the mood-boosting chemical serotonin that also elevates reproduction? In general, people are more likely to be happy in cold weather than any other time of the year. Lastly, many respondents claimed they are more likely to reach an orgasm when they are cold than hot.

Note that this page is about conspiracy theories, pseudohistory, and other crank ideas about the Church. For legitimate criticism of the Roman Catholic Church see relevant articles in the category Catholicism.

“”A penny loaf to feed ol' Pope. A farthing cheese to choke him.

—[1]

Anti-Catholicism refers to staunch opposition to the Roman Catholic Church and its members, usually grounded in conspiracy theory, nativism, and misrepresentation of Catholic theology (and, often, copious amounts of tangentially related wingnuttery). Some brands of the anti-Catholic conspiracy theory paint the Catholic Church as a lone conspirator seeking world domination, though many depict the Church as being in bed with the Illuminati or Freemasons. (Ironically, the former were suppressed by the Church, and they have been staunchly opposed to the latter since the beginning). While anti-Catholic bigotry was once rampant among Protestants, recent political re-alignments have strengthened ties between conservative Protestants and the Catholic hierarchy. Increasingly, so-called "anti-Catholicism" is merely whining about criticism of the Church, coverage being insufficiently pro-Catholic, or disagreement with Catholic positions on issues such as birth control, abortion, and gay rights.^[2][3]

Contents  [hide]  1 The Reformation and England 2 America and Know Nothingism 2.1 The US into the mid-19th century 2.2 Know Nothingism 2.3 Post-bellum America into the 20th century 3 Modern variants 3.1 New World Order conspiracists 3.2 Wingnut fundamentalist Protestants 3.3 The Da Vinci Code 3.4 Northern Ireland 4 Anti-Catholics 5 See also 6 External links 7 Footnotes

[edit]The Reformation and England

“”Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

—Richard Hofstadter[4]

The idea of the pope as antichrist plays a central role in the anti-Catholic conspiracy theories. This idea dates back to the Protestant Reformation, whenMartin Luther, whose complaints about financial and theological improprieties the Church had ignored, set off a schism within Western Christianity. Luther believed, following a popular conception of the day, that during the End Time Satan would work to corrupt the Church. Luther believed that the institution of the papacy was that corrupting influence, and, borrowing the term from the first and second letters of John, he called it "antichrist."^[5] Luther produced a series of woodcarvings with side-by-side depictions of the pope (labeled as "antichristus") and Jesus in which the pope was doing the opposite of Jesus (e.g., in one carving, Jesus is washing the feet of the poor while the pope is having his feet washed by the poor).^[6]

Conspiracy theories about the Catholic Church found especially fertile ground in England due to the English Reformation and creation of the Church of England. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an actual conspiracy by Catholics to assassinate King James I, also helped fuel anti-Catholicism in England. The most famous of these theories was probably the so-called "Popish Plot," a conspiracy theory cooked up by one Titus Oates that implicated the Catholic Church in a conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II. This led to a moral panic in the 1670s and 1680s that was used to justify the execution of at least fifteen alleged conspirators and the Exclusion Bill, which sought to de-legitimize James, Duke of York, as heir to the throne due to his Catholic faith. The idea that the Jesuits were foot-soldiers in the vast Catholic conspiracy, another common theme in anti-Catholicism, was also present in Popish Plot theories.^[7]

Beginning in the mid-16th century, a number of penal laws were passed with the intent of suppressing Catholicism and re-asserting the authority of the Church of England. The Clarendon Code, four acts passed from 1661-1665, targeted the political and religious freedoms of Catholics and other Protestantheretics.^[8]

[edit]America and Know Nothingism

[edit]The US into the mid-19th century

Protestant settlers in America often took with them the anti-Catholic sentiment found in Europe. However, due to the overwhelmingly protestant religious make-up of the nascent United States, anti-Catholicism did not become a major political issue until the 19th century. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the 1800s arose in large part as a response to the large influx of Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany. One of the most popular early anti-Catholic tracts was written by none other than the inventor of the telegraph himself: Samuel Morse. In 1835, Morse published a book called Foreign Conspiracies Against the Liberties of the United States, which alleged the Catholics were part of a larger conspiracy based in Austria to install a member of the House of Habsburg as the imperial ruler of the US.^[4] During this period, anti-Catholicism began to become intertwined with early versions of the Freemason and Illuminati conspiracy theories, all of which played into nativist ideas about a European monarchical takeover of the US.

[edit]Know Nothingism

See the main article on this topic: Know Nothing Party

In the mid-19th century up until the American Civil War, the nativist Know Nothing movement represented the high-watermark of anti-Catholicism in American politics. The Know Nothings believed in an imminent papal takeover of the US via the "political Romanism" of newly arrived immigrants and attempted to have Catholics banned from public office. They also managed to field Millard Fillmore as a candidate on the Know Nothing ticket in the election of 1856.

[edit]Post-bellum America into the 20th century

Smaller Know Nothing-esque movements, however, persisted in American politics. The Panic of 1893 was latched onto by the newly formed American Protective Association as "proof" of a Catholic conspiracy to destroy the financial institutions of the US. This fringe political movement spawned a host of new conspiracy theories, including allegations that agents of the Church had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.^[9]

Anti-Catholic conspiracy theories continued to incubate on the fringe right until the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. The KKK promoted Protestant white supremacism, leading them to target not just blacks, but basically all minorities. The Klan worked at the local level to shut down Roman Catholic churches and schools largely in the 1920s.^[10][11]

Anti-Catholicism became a major issue once again during the presidential campaign of 1928, which pitted the Irish Catholic Governor of New York Al Smith, the first major-party Roman Catholic candidate in a presidential election, against Herbert Hoover. Smith's opponents used the phrase "Rum and Romanism" (Smith was also a "wet" opposed to Prohibition) as a pejorative reference to his campaign,^[12] echoing an earlier description of the Democrats as the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion."

The so-called "Catholic Question" once again became an issue in the 1960 campaign of John F. Kennedy. Prominent Protestant ministers, such as Billy Graham, distrusted Kennedy's Catholicism and tried to derail his campaign.^[13] The more extreme, paranoid wing of the American conservative movement dredged up the old anti-Catholic conspiracy theories in response to Kennedy's candidacy and subsequent presidential administration as he became the first Roman Catholic president of the US.^[14][15]

[edit]Modern variants

Anti-Catholicism as a political movement has mostly dropped off the radar in the current American political landscape. Most major criticisms of the Church originate in more secular issues like the child sex abuse scandal and the Vatican establishment's social conservatism, and come from lay Catholics themselves as often as not. However, hardcore anti-Catholic wingnuttery still finds a home in many fringe movements and subcultures. The following conspiracy theories often cross-pollinate into unholy alliances of crankery as well, just like in the good old days.

[edit]New World Order conspiracists

Conspiracy theorists pushing "New World Order" theories allege a vast global conspiracy made up of the (Jews/Illuminati/Freemasons/Insert your favored conspiratorial bogeyman here) will often throw anti-Catholicism into the mix, mining the conspiracist literature of yesteryear for ever more pseudohistory toshoehorn into the New World Order framework.

[edit]Wingnut fundamentalist Protestants

Hardline fundamentalists still continue to claim that the pope is the antichrist and that Roman Catholics engage in Satanic, demonic, occult or otherwise un-Christian practices. ^[16]

Chick tracts are replete with Evangelical hatred for the Church. One tract argues that the Church created Islam, Communism, Nazism, Freemasonry and more.^[17] In fact, there are more Chick tracts that condemn the Catholic church than there are Chick tracts which condemn Mormonism, Islam, and theJehovah's Witnesses combined.

The antichrist theory inevitably leads to a round of crankery every time a new pope is selected, i.e. "This time, he really is the antichrist and the end is surely nigh!"^[18] Wash, rinse, repeat.^[19] Pope Francis is due to be the very last according to some predictions,^[20] so mass hysteria may follow.

Religious anti-Catholicism often merges into New World Order conspiracism. Pat Robertson's 1991 screed The New World Order is such an instance. That makes these theories a staple among the religious element of the hard right black helicopter set.

[edit]The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown's publication of The Da Vinci Code in 2004 made anti-Catholic conspiracy theories cool again by popularizing and ripping off the pseudo-scholarship of the 1982 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The ideas about a cover-up of Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene and the true nature of the Holy Grail are sometimes subsumed into the wider anti-Catholic conspiratorial framework or, alternately, open up those with the inclination toward crankery to a vast wealth of anti-Catholic pseudo-scholarship. The secretive Opus Dei sect of the Church often plays a big role in these theories. Brown has admitted, however, that he does not believe in these conspiracy theories but only adapted them to suit his novels and write fiction.

[edit]Northern Ireland

Anti-Catholicism was cross-pollinated with Unionist (pro-British) extremism during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with gruesome results. While the IRAare remembered as the main terrorist group of the conflict, Protestant extremists like the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defense Association had a major hand in the fighting. Ian Paisley, the ideological godfather of Protestant extremism in Northern Ireland, earned notoriety during his time in the European Parliament for denouncing Pope John Paul II as the antichrist. The Troubles are perhaps the most recent case in the Western world of anti-Catholicism contributing to actual bloodshed.

[edit]Anti-Catholics