ANYONE who feels their sex life has become a bit boring lately can take heart. Social scientists are getting on top of the problem. “Mundane sex” is the theme of the latest issue of the Journal of Mundane Behaviour, the sociology journal devoted to the science of the ordinary.
It seems that mundane sex is all too common, despite media images that try to convince us otherwise. JMB guest editor Kimberly Mahaffy, an assistant professor of sociology at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, explains: “Some of us are too tired to have sex or we go through the motions. The novelty…
