Sex or a clean bed, what do you prefer?

You lie in that big bed, your hands gliding with delight over the sheets and never before has anything been so fantastically nice. I'm not talking about the best sex you ever had, but about the pleasure of freshly washed sheets.

Quest conducted research on sleeping habits among a large group of readers and it resulted in quite remarkable findings. For instance, not only children sleep with stuffed animals, but one in seven women does too. And we like to have our phone within reach while we sleep, as 65 percent keep it on the nightstand. But the researchers must have looked quite surprised when it turned out how happy we humans are with freshly washed bedding. It might just be one of the bigger moments of happiness in life, as we look up the results of the research.

Once a week (and in the summer even twice) I have that blissful feeling in bed. Those crackling sheets that just came out of the wash. You might have thought for a moment that I was going to say something else, but no. It's a small but delightful moment of happiness when you flip the corner of the duvet and almost feel like you're stepping into your own laundry detergent. In my case, I'm under a sheet of blue Persil, it is truly divine. It might even be more fantastic if you add a drop of laundry perfume, the big secret of May.

This blissful feeling is recognized by no less than 53 percent of the respondents by Quest. But they are not just happy with a clean bed. They go much further. More than half of the respondents prefer a clean bed over a quickie. Whoaaa, what a result. You could almost claim that a clean bed is found to be nicer than an orgasm. I believe I need to recover from this for a moment.

Multiple studies in the field of sleep show that we think we sleep better in a clean bed. Maybe that's it. We simply love a good night's sleep more than sex. Speaking of ‘what would you wake me up for at night’. Nothing at all, because apparently the best thing is a good night's rest. Maybe I should still pass on some orgasm techniques to the participants of this research?