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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Austrians love their bedrooms, but seldom make love in them. Malaysians often have sex in their bedrooms, but don’t get much sleep there.

Those are some of the conclusions of an international Gallup poll by Swedish furniture giant Ikea.

The company wanted to know how frequently people in Europe, Asia and North America use their bedrooms for different activities, including sleeping, relaxing and “romance.”

In Sweden and Iceland, 72 percent of respondents said they use their bedrooms for romantic endeavors, while in China the same figure was 20 percent.

Malaysians were the most sexually active — 43 percent said they have sex daily in their bedrooms. Malaysia was also the place were people sleep the least: Six hours and 36 minutes per night, about half an hour less than the survey’s average.

Austrians ranked low in sexual activity, but were the most satisfied with their bedrooms, ahead of Belgians and Swiss. Russians were the least satisfied.

The survey included 14,000 IKEA customers in 27 countries. The margin of error was 4.5 percentage points.
Spaniards and Americans were most likely to keep their bedrooms private, while almost half of Chinese allowed their friends access.

Other facts in the survey: Three-quarters make their bed daily; people who frequently change their mattresses have more sex; and the most common fixture of a bedroom is the alarm clock.

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To the cheating wives of Indian men, the law probably seems unfair. Currently as the law stands in India, only men can be criminally tried and punished for having an [/tag]extramarital affair[/tag]. No criminal charges can be made against a wife for sleeping with a man who is not her husband.

The law makes adultery a crime for men lays down a sentence of up to five years in jail and also a fine.
Though adultery is a rising urban phenomenon and often the cause and ground for a divorce, and though in many parts of the world, especially in the European Union and many US states, the trend is to de-criminalize adultery, the Mallimath committee on criminal law reforms recommended about five years back that women should also be tried for adultery.

The existing law is based on the mindset that a wife is a chattel possessed by the man who becomes the aggrieved person. The NCW opposed the amendment, saying that merely punishing a wife, would not save marriages. It also cited the socially disempowered position of women in India.

In fact, the National Commission for Women, in a progressive move, recommended that adultery should be treated as a civil wrong (where compensation can be sought). In American states where adultery is still a crime, it is rarely prosecuted.

The Indian Supreme Court, while upholding section 497 in 1985, observed that the “the wife involved in an illicit relationship with another man, is a victim and not the author of the crime…adultery is an offence against the sanctity of matrimonial home, an act which is committed by a man, as it generally is. Hence those men who defile such sanctity are brought within the net of law…”

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• When You Give a Phone Number, Give Your Work Number – If you have some personal space in your office to talk on the phone, it may be best to give out that phone number first, should you decide to exchange numbers.

• Exchange Photos Via Email or Regular Mail – If you want to be sure that the other person is telling the truth about their looks, ask for a picture.

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