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Bed size and intimacy

RobertU said:
Since the start of the sexual revolution, men and women have been moving farther from each other in bed as bed size has gotten larger and larger. Of course, Americans have gotten fatter so that may also explain the larger bed sizes. But still, it suggests that sexual freedom now means “Get out of my personal space.”

Double beds (also known as Full) were the most common for two to sleep in until the 1960's. They're only 15" wider than a Single bed, leaving only 27" of sleep space for each of two adults. At 75" long, a Full size bed may be too short for some taller adults. Overall dimensions: 54" wide x 75" long

Source: Understanding Twin, Queen, and King Bed Dimensions
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Full sized beds are not the same as twins or double beds, big are distinct sizes and different sizes. Just saying.....
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I’m pretty sure my wife an I are happier with a big bed than a small bed. We sleep better, which puts us in a better mood, which increases the odds we will be in the mood to knock boots.

I don’t enjoy cuddling ALL night. We like to drift off to sleep with my arms around my wife, but at some point I roll away and we sleep within our own space. We sleep fairly stripped down so when we cuddle our skin is in contact with each other. You do that too long and your skin starts sticking to each other through sweat. My wife also doesn’t like me snoring right into her ear for some reason.
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Spot on...that is so funny!

Karen: "Sweetie, I know you love snuggling with me as you go off to sleep and I love it too but once you start sleeping deeply you either start snoring or you turn into a gorilla holding its pet kitten, or else your hot breath starts going down my neck and I have to disengage or I'm going to strangle you." :lamo

Hey, WTF I don't know what I do when I sleep...glad she hasn't broken out the camcorder or else I'd be a YouTube sensation.

Oh yeah, sometimes Karen talks to herself, or she has a conversation with me.
Those are HILARIOUS.
 
Houses and bedrooms also got bigger which may be another explanation
 
RobertU said:
Since the start of the sexual revolution, men and women have been moving farther from each other in bed as bed size has gotten larger and larger. Of course, Americans have gotten fatter so that may also explain the larger bed sizes. But still, it suggests that sexual freedom now means “Get out of my personal space.”

Double beds (also known as Full) were the most common for two to sleep in until the 1960's. They're only 15" wider than a Single bed, leaving only 27" of sleep space for each of two adults. At 75" long, a Full size bed may be too short for some taller adults. Overall dimensions: 54" wide x 75" long

Source: Understanding Twin, Queen, and King Bed Dimensions
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The sexual revolution has ZERO to do with this at all, really.
Seriously, people have had BIG BEDS forever.

My first wife inherited a humungous bed from the Pennsylvania farmhouse she grew up in.
It was LARGER than a California King, MUCH larger.
The mattress was custom handmade, sheets, same thing. Everything about it was one off.
Her grandfather just wanted the biggest bed he could drag into the bedroom.
It was like having your own miniature country to sleep on top of.
 
Quag said:
Houses and bedrooms also got bigger which may be another explanation
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When we moved BACK to Los Angeles in 2012 we rented a crummy 3 BR house till we found a house to buy.
Our "California King" bed could barely fit in our "California" bedroom.
 
My father had 18 siblings. When they were young, the boys shared one large bed, the girls another. Everybody kept warmer in the winter. Come summer they'd sleep on the porch and the roof if it wasn't raining, to keep cooler. Sex had nothing to do with this arrangement. Nighttime methane was a problem. They all blamed the dogs that slept with them. My grandmother had a problem with taking in stray dogs and cats. The house crawled with them, along with puppies and kittens when we visited during her latter years. Chicken Sunday dinners from the coop she kept in the back yard. Those beds were still there, and huge. We would nap in them with our cousins. And my father would threaten the old parrot she kept caged in the kitchen, as it cursed in a dozen or so languages. He'd point at the oven and tell the parrot "YOU!" I can't repeat the phrases the parrot responded with, here. My father would hold up a piece of chicken on a fork, and chuckle. My grandmother would roll her eyes. My father would down the chicken, chewing slowly, as he stared into the parrot's eyes.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Oh yeah, sometimes Karen talks to herself, or she has a conversation with me.
Those are HILARIOUS.
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One day I'll wake up without my wife's cold feet in the center of my back. Two wives, the same cold feet against my back, and the same steel and brass king size bed, tho the mattress is new. The bed was an antique when my first wife and I bought it 44 years ago. Made by Charles P. Rogers during the 1860's. Still in business making steel and brass beds.
 
joko104 said:
Same here - making it colder and use a blanket. I also like some sound in the background - but not music - and some air movement such as a ceiling fan on low. Not for any cost savings, put in the smallest size 5000 btu window air conditioner to run on low fan to make the bedroom colder than the rest of the house and for the soft hum of the little a/c. My favorite sound to sleep to is rain for some reason.
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Yep, I've got zoned air and keep the bedroom frigid - even in August!

But rain? Oddly enough, that was W.C. Fields favorite sound for sleeping. He was a severe alcoholic, and suffered from all the anxiety and insomnia that comes with that. So he claimed he needed the sound of rain to sleep.

In his last days, inside a sanitarium, it is claimed he rigged-up a garden hose to spray on his room's roof!
 
Casper said:
Full sized beds are not the same as twins or double beds, big are distinct sizes and different sizes. Just saying.....
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Actually full and double are the same bedding. At least as far as the industry goes. Unless you are using full as in occupancy...

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Checkerboard Strangler said:
The sexual revolution has ZERO to do with this at all, really.
Seriously, people have had BIG BEDS forever.

My first wife inherited a humungous bed from the Pennsylvania farmhouse she grew up in.
It was LARGER than a California King, MUCH larger.
The mattress was custom handmade, sheets, same thing. Everything about it was one off.
Her grandfather just wanted the biggest bed he could drag into the bedroom.
It was like having your own miniature country to sleep on top of.
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Bed were indeed bigger in the past because as a general rule there was only the one bed and the whole family slept in it.

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Chomsky said:
Yep, I've got zoned air and keep the bedroom frigid - even in August!

But rain? Oddly enough, that was W.C. Fields favorite sound for sleeping. He was a severe alcoholic, and suffered from all the anxiety and insomnia that comes with that. So he claimed he needed the sound of rain to sleep.

In his last days, inside a sanitarium, it is claimed he rigged-up a garden hose to spray on his room's roof!
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"Small dogs and children, hate them both with equanimity." Just rolled off his tongue. :) I can smell his cigar.
 
OldFatGuy said:
"Small dogs and children, hate them both with equanimity." Just rolled off his tongue. :) I can smell his cigar.
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Did you say, "cigar"?

He was pretty damn good with a "cigar box", too!


 
RobertU said:
Since the start of the sexual revolution, men and women have been moving farther from each other in bed as bed size has gotten larger and larger. Of course, Americans have gotten fatter so that may also explain the larger bed sizes. But still, it suggests that sexual freedom now means “Get out of my personal space.”

Double beds (also known as Full) were the most common for two to sleep in until the 1960's. They're only 15" wider than a Single bed, leaving only 27" of sleep space for each of two adults. At 75" long, a Full size bed may be too short for some taller adults. Overall dimensions: 54" wide x 75" long

Source: Understanding Twin, Queen, and King Bed Dimensions
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So that's your latest theory regarding why you're not getting laid? Your bed's the wrong size?

Don't worry, Bud. Size shouldn't matter :)
 
Bed size and intimacy
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Does not really matter for me....I could have a bed the size of a tennis court, and the cold toes space invader I married with her menagerie of cats will be piled on top of me before morning. :shrug:
 
Beds are for sleeping, home offices, couches, garages, bath tubs the bathroom at work, and an RV for sale on a lot are for intimacy.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Beds are for sleeping, home offices, couches, garages, bath tubs the bathroom at work, and an RV for sale on a lot are for intimacy.
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Wait, my bed isn't supposed to be my breakfast spot?

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CLAX1911 said:
There are no ants in the desert? Will scorpions here too they don't bother me they're normally quite skittish and stay the hell away from people.
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We have ants but they don't seem to be in the city. And man, scorpions here can be mean suckers. We have ones called Arizona Bark Scorpions. Just a warning for anyone, the pic there of the scorpion with babies is freaky as ****. Some people have arachnophobia. I have.... Scorpionaphobia These ****ers are creepy as hell!

Why the hell I ever moved to the desert is still a mystery. Then again, the dry heat is way better than where I grew up in MI. Humidity is a killer. Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread.
 
CannonballB said:
We have ants but they don't seem to be in the city. And man, scorpions here can be mean suckers. We have ones called Arizona Bark Scorpions. Just a warning for anyone, the pic there of the scorpion with babies is freaky as ****. Some people have arachnophobia. I have.... Scorpionaphobia These ****ers are creepy as hell!

Why the hell I ever moved to the desert is still a mystery. Then again, the dry heat is way better than where I grew up in MI. Humidity is a killer. Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread.
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Yeah we have those kind here. We have little yellow ones and larger ones that are, deep brown color. I don't suffer from Arachnophobia actually dated a guy that had a pet tarantula for a while. And these sorts of things vinegaroons if you suffer from Arachnophobia I would suggest not googling a vinegaroon it is called a whip scorpion by some people, and they are massive for a bug.

But I accept that I'm a weirdo. I have these toads that live in my yard. And occasionally they sing and I'll actually catch roaches and feed to them. I want to build a little pond for them to breed in.

But I'm one of those people that really likes creepy crawlies. The two that really fascinate me is a dobsonfly again don't Google it if you big insects bother you, and a hellgrammite worm.

But snails and millipedes, and some people call him rolly pollies but they little crustaceans, I played with those when I'm a little when I was a little boy and I still do today.
 
Pretty much everything has gotten bigger since the 1960s.
 
AK Conservative said:
Pretty much everything has gotten bigger since the 1960s.
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I like a larger bed especially on those hot summer nights. I've shared a twin size bed with my partner before anytime we go over to his grandparents house. But I'm glad I have a nice big king-size bed to spread out on.
 
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