There’s a new game for parents inspired by that time-honored question: What do you want more of, sex or sleep?”
If you have young kids at home, then you are likely lacking both.
Carolyn Evans can attest to that fact. That’s why the wife and mother, turned author, penned a new book titled, “Forty Beads.” In it she details the rules of a new game she devised to help parents get more action between the sheets. As for gaining more shut-eye, well, that’s covered too, but in a more indirect way. According to Evans, the nights that don’t include nookie are earmarked for sleep, and since sleep begets better moods, getting it on will be more pleasurable. Likewise, the better the sex, the better you will sleep.
So, here’s how you can make all this happy sex-sleep happen:
According to Evans, it’s all about the beads. For her husband’s 40th birthday, the creative mom presented her beloved with a jar containing 40 beads. On the nights he wants to get passionate in bed, he puts a bead in a “beadcatcher”, a little bowl Evans keeps near the bed. If she notices a bead in the catcher she has to be ready to put out within 24 hours.
Sound strange? Not to Evans. The author insists the game did more than improve her sex life; she actually credits the beads for putting her rocky marriage back on solid ground.
In a recent interview with TIME magazine Evans says her husband is a new man since he started playing the bead game:
“He drops the bead in a bowl and all of a sudden he’s scooping up the baby with the stinking butt instead of walking right past because he is so stinking happy with the promise of all this sex in his future.”
Not for nothing, but I have serious misgivings about “Forty Beads.” For the record I am all about increasing intimacy between spouses and I firmly believe happy adults make better parents. However, Evans’ game centers on the idea that men want sex more than women, and that even if moms don’t want it, they should take one for the team and put out if their husband drops a bead in the bowl.
So no bead no sex? Apparently, those are the nights that the Evans catch-up on their sleep.
I don’t know about you, but I can think of a litany of other things I’d rather cash my beads in for besides a late-night quickie. Let’s see… a maid, a babysitter, a personal assistant, a masseuse…
What do you think about the bead game?
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