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Sad Fact of the Day

Radley Balko | 8.30.2010 10:43 AM

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From Paul Bloom's terrific new book How Pleasure Works:

While people sometimes describe sex as their most pleasurable act, time-management studies find that the average American adult devotes just four minutes per day to sex—almost exactly the same time spent filling out tax forms for the government.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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