I suppose there is at least ONE reason to like Tuesdays more than Mondays – according to a Danish study, people worry most about STDs and AIDS (and call hotlines about them) on Mondays, likely because they have unprotected sex most on Fridays and Saturdays. But why not a spike in callers on Sundays? they wondered.

The researchers originally believed that the reason for this phenomena was that many health-hotlines do not operate on Sunday, but they found that even visits to sexual health websites see a surge on Mondays, despite their being available 24/7. They came to the rather vague conclusion that people like to “sleep on it,” or give it a day to calm down and consider the repercussions before taking the leap and getting tested for an STD or the much more traumatizing possibility of HIV. I, on the other hand, believe they wait because

1. Sundays are for pizza and crying yourself to sleep at 4 in the afternoon.

2. it might take 48 hours to remember if you ACTUALLY had sex, or were just drunk enough to believe you did.

3. shame. Buckets and buckets of shame.

4. even if you DID have safe sex, we hypochondriacs eventually start to wonder if maybe STDs have altered their molecular structure and can now travel through latex.

5. the shame thing again.

Moral of the story? GLOVE YOUR JUNK, boys, and ladies – if he ain’t got a rubber, stick to a tugger. (ed. note: HORRIBLE. JUST HORRIBLE.)

Via Jezebel