If pressed, most of us bicycling fans will say we do it for the exercise, to save money on gas, and for the environment. But now this Hungarian PSA promoting bicycling has exposed the truth. You might not want to play this where office mates can hear it. (Via, with translation.)
But I can’t help but think that as silly as it is, there’s a grain of truth to the claims. Lack of exercise is brutal to the sex drive, and something as well-rounded as bicycling to get exercise probably does have some health benefits that carry over to the bedroom.
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Better bodies = better sex.
Things like self-confidence, stamina, good breathing techniques, endurance, and the fact that the in-shape crowd is just plain better looking makes me admire exercise and very much admire those who exercise much more than a lack of it and those who don’t. Chances are, if you look like a tireless lump (of any size,) you just aren’t going to be good in bed.
But I can’t agree that a lack of exercise affects the sex drive. When I was drinking liters of soda each day, I was still a horny devil. Options weren’t as good, but the drive was always there.
Bicycling also builds powerful legs, hips, and buttocks, as well as increased physical stamina. All of these things are useful in the sack.
I’m behind the commercial IN THEORY.
Except that the standard design of most bicycle seats, and the way that it puts pressure on the male’s lower region is actually linked to impotence.
So it should be “Bike to work but have a more toilet-bowl-shaped seat.”
For women, biking across stripped pavement can be just as good as (or better than) sex.
That’s pretty great. Anyone know what they’re actually saying?
I have to say I was really happy to get my bike out of storage recently and be able to go further (to better grocery stores for a start), and I was appalled how much wind I had lost over the winter… damn aging sack of meat body… who stuck us with these things anyways?
(oh, and there’ a link to the translation is provided in the op.)
Bicycling also builds powerful legs, hips, and buttocks, as well as increased physical stamina.
I’ve been getting a lot of fatigue and soreness in those areas recently, too. I really should bicycle more.
It’s well known that a good stiffy depends on one’s vascular health. Combine that with the aerobic demands of enthusiastic sex, and it’s a no-brainer that a consistent exercise program translates to good performance in the sack.
Unfortunately for me the Wife’s psych meds have reduced her libido to zero. At least, that’s her story, and she’s sticking to it.
Hungary is awesome.
They do have a bridge named after Colbert of course!
Try biking here in rural Whitest Whitesylvania and your life is at risk. Maybe in the evilbig city or trolley burbs a bike is transport. Not here. Jobs are miles, not blocks, away and the roads are built for trucks. Some co-workers drive 30, 60, and 90 miles..one way..on rural two-lane roads. A bike is sweet but not really useful out in the boonies.
The impotence thing is only a factor if you ride extremely long distances on a poorly fitted seat. If a man adjusts his bike properly and takes care to sit in the right posture, it won’t be a problem. I ride 50-100 miles a week and it’s never been an issue. You can also get seats with holes or groves in them which reduce pressure on the taint.
That house had an incredible design!
Heh!
I was driving Illocano Avenger to the optician this morning, and I told her,
“I love this town!”
“Why?”
“Where else can you see a bicyclist with a cigarette in his mouth?”
In this part of red California, we’ve just had bike paths added during the last 2-3 years, as the city fathers recognized that many citizens use bikes because of low income and the increasing cost of gas…
Lack of exercise is brutal to the sex drive
Isn’t age a factor in this correlation? I imagine once you reach a certain age, regular exercise gives you the energy to have a sex drive so to speak, but I’m young enough that being a teenager is still relatively fresh in my mind. At that age, exercise actually helps take the edge off of your libido enough so that you can function without having to “relieve yourself” every hour because of the built up “tension”.
?? What part of California is “red California” ?
Is that ‘red’ as in ‘red state’, or ‘red’ as in ‘Red Army’?
(Or red as in ‘Beaujolais’?)
“Is that ‘red’ as in ‘red state’, or ‘red’ as in ‘Red Army’???”
Red state, as in Rightwing/Reichwing/Republican-dominant…
“What part of California is “red California” ?”
Primarily the parts that are not on the coast (San Diego and surrounding are sort of a special case).
Probably 80-90% of the land mass, but a much smaller percentage of the population, because the population density declines rapidly the further away from the coast you get. But the cost of housing also declines as well, so there are attractive aspects.
The differences between “red” and “blue” California are so stark there have been many efforts over the years to divide the state at least in two to separate us from each other. None have succeeded - yet…
Seats should not be an issue: since this affected a lot of affluent males, the market adjusted really quickly. If you are experiencing pain or nerve problems it should be possible to adjust your seat - based on my personal experience and that of friends it’s normal to ride hundreds of miles a week for months on end without pain, numbness or other problems - yet another area where the idiotic “no pain, no gain” policy is about the worst thing you can do.
That’s pretty great. Anyone know what they’re actually saying?
Old Woman: Winter is coming.
Old Man: Our souls, they grow hard with the coming storm
Old Woman: (Under breath) The nipples of mother hope have run dry.
Announcer: Drink Pepsi!
Hah, I have their bed. Also, I just bought a new bike!
Clearly, I see lots of shagging in my future.
Ezra Klein, in the linked post, said:
Until I read the link (forget it, I am not playing the YouTube thing in my current setting) I thought it would be a mention of the “secret” of bicycling for women first mentioned, to my limited and haphazard knowledge, in the movie The Road To Wellville.
Seats should not be an issue: since this affected a lot of affluent males, the market adjusted really quickly.
The best seats are made by Georgene Terry - maker of ergonomic frames for women (when nobody else cared) and nerve sparing seats for men. “Terry Liberator” is the brand.
Of course, there is always the recumbent bike. The man who popularized them still commutes past our house a couple times a week - he’s nearly 80 and still an emeritus prof at MIT.
Oh, and retrospective analysis of the health records of men who have suffered heart attacks demonstrated a substantial incidence of erectile dysfunction complaints to doctors about 5 to 10 years prior to a critical or fatal heart attack.
Um, Mold, can you imagine a place much more white and boonified than Reno, Nevada? Well honestly I can, but still, Reno 911! is uncannily like a documentary.
And I mean to get a bike and start biking to and from work, now that it is pretty much past snow weather. I may regret it bitterly when the afternoons start getting up to 100 degrees. But at least I go to work just around dawn. And maybe it won’t work because traffic would kill me.
Certainly I am lucky that my workplace is just six miles from my home.
But Manhattan this place is not.
Nor, to be fair to you, do I see a lot of cyclists. Probably I will learn why, and perhaps pass on my bitterly gained lore if I survive.
But I bet I can do it. And with gas coming within just cents of $4 a gallon here, believe me I am motivated.
It would also be good exercise. Which I need.
And I can probably fend off traffic with the calluses I am getting disassembling and reassembling dusty old computers.
“Where else can you see a bicyclist with a cigarette in his mouth?”
Amsterdam?
We also have DUIcyclists and Migrecyclists in these parts - no helmet, cigarette, wrong way, on sidewalk, bike to work etc. because they don’t have a car or a license for one reason or another.
Ha! I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned the fact that when bicycles first became popular, just prior to the turn of the twentieth century, there was a raging debate among doctors and the public over whether the riding of bicycles was too–shall we say–exciting for women. Yes, seriously. They thought that sitting on the bicycle seat would cause women to orgasm.
Montréal!
When you’re really lucky, you see people biking or rollerblading while smoking AND talking on a cellphone.
Or, you see two women holding up traffic by moving a couch down the street balanced on two bikes…
Some parts of Austin. I am amused at the various clothes I see people bike in. The other day, I was biking along and saw a guy in a suit and tie, very hipster, and even a hat and glasses.
The part of red CA where I was brought up and currently reside is the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Amanda would feel right at home if she were here to experience the accents of the ‘natives’ and the summertime weather of 95+ degrees which is a bit drier than TX…….
This y’all might find interesting:
*(Excepting The Dark Avengers’ present undisclosed location in southeastern Tulare County…..)
I will testify to the accuracy of Dark Avenger’s statements and quotations.
The Joaquin Valley is also the most productive agricultural area in the whole US (as is California overall), which many people from certain midwestern states don’t want to give us credit for.
But it is also crammed full of Koolaideratti.
So in the end, I don’t know if the productivity balances out the extreme rightwingyness or not…
That’s what the Kathy Bates character in The Road To Wellville was implying.
That movie also featured the late 19th century medical practice of doctors massaging women’s uteri from the inside, for strictly therapeutic purposes of course.
Ha! I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned the fact that when bicycles first became popular, just prior to the turn of the twentieth century, there was a raging debate among doctors and the public over whether the riding of bicycles was too–shall we say–exciting for women. Yes, seriously. They thought that sitting on the bicycle seat would cause women to orgasm.
You may be out on the timing there.
Nothing like an endorsement of adultery to push an agenda.
I must have missed the part where the wife did anything but look at a guy thoughtfully.
I must have missed the part where the wife did anything but look at a guy thoughtfully.
I also must have missed the part where they said “Don’t Blaspheme! twice in a row”, apparently.
Not that I care about the original issue, but cultural studies and being deliberately obtuse don’t mix.