Abe,

You said: "Just try to imagine sex between previous Presidents and their wives- it's almost impossible."

Then: "Say what you will about Richard Milhous Nixon, but it's not so difficult to imagine this individual pursuing his urges"

Funny, you should pick him. Most people would probably disagree with you.

Gerry and Betty Ford were celebrated for having a double bed. I notice that you didn't mention them.

My guess is that you are just talkin' - off the top of your head.

"library-marm presentation"???

would this, perchance, be JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER?

I wonder why you find it hard to imagine GWB and Laura B having sex. Do you cast them into a parental role, and this is an unconscious rejection of a parental primal scene? Or, perhaps you're projecting your own suppressed puritanism and sexual dysfunction onto the Other? Maybe its in reaction formation to the expression of a homoerotic longing for the powerful and athletic President?

Or, maybe it was just, well, dumb?

Bird do, bees do it, even old people and presidents do it.

Here are the facts of life: “A Study of Sexuality and Health among Older Adults in the United States,” published August 2007 in the New England Journal of Medicine—confirms old people are making a lot of whoopee, often as much as people many years younger: “In our study, the frequency of sexual activity reported by respondents who were sexually active was similar to that reported among adults 18 to 59 in the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey.” A majority of both men and women fifty-five to seventy-five who are in a relationship are having sex at least twice each month.

So it's likely that not only the Nixons, but both sets of Bushes, and the Eisonhowers were among the sexually active.

Hi Abraham,

Reading this post and imagining all of these people naked and having sex reminded me of a really funny time in my childhood. I was 9 yrs old and woke up in the middle of the night from a really bad dream. I walked into my parents room and was HORRIFIED to witness my parents in the act. I quietly ducked back out and realized that reality was far worse than my nightmare and hurriedly went back to sleep :)

Thanks for the entertaining post!!
YG

aloha hawaii !!
I think obama will surely need some help from you - There is alot that Obama needs to get done and then there is the heavy weight of expectations. I am sure stress will eventually get our poor young president.But the Obamas will always have hawaii...right?