History of North America

The US President Who Named a Pattern of Sexual Behavior (And It's Not Clinton)

If the terms "President of the United States" and "sex" appear in the same sentence, the 1998 scandal over a sexual relationship (fellatio version) between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky comes to mind, but this time It has nothing to do with them and everything to do with Calvin Coolidge , American president from 1923 to 1929, an austere, discreet man, lacking in charisma and loquacity, but who did not lose a single election in his entire political career, and whose sharp sense of humor gave his name to a pattern of sexual behavior. By the way, during his stay in the White House, the presidential pets were somewhat curious:the pygmy hippopotamus Billy and a raccoon named Rebecca.

We are going to open a small poultry parenthesis to put ourselves in situation (especially for urbanites). If you are going to have chickens, the first thing you have to decide is if you want them to lay eggs or if you want them to raise chicks, and in this case you will need a rooster to fertilize the eggs. When a hen is receptive, the rooster initiates courtship:he spreads his wings and walks around her initiating the mating dance, as if to say “here I am, little one”. And the usual thing is that the chicken runs away, but it's just a pose to play tough. The rooster chases her and when the game climbs on top of her, subduing her (it's not that they like sado, it's that he holds her so that she adopts the receiving position). The rooster spreads its tail feathers so that both cloacas (reproductive organs) can connect and deposits a sac of semen inside the hen, ending the mating that lasts just a few seconds. After copulation, the rooster will go to see if there are more receptive hens to repeat, being able to mate up to 30 times in the same day!!! Come on, roosters don't need the "after" cigarette to recover. And here we close the parenthesis and bring back President Calvin Coolidge.

It is said that, on a certain occasion, the president and his wife Grace Coolidge They visited a poultry farm and the manager was showing them the facilities and explaining the peculiarities that I just told you about. When the farmer detailed the number of times the spirited animal could mate per day, the First Lady blurted out…

Please tell the president (jokingly, I guess).

Coolidge listened to him and asked the farmer:

And he always does it with the same chicken?

No, Mr. President, he does it every time with a different one - answered the farmer.

Please, tell my lady - the president said.

Calvin and Grace Coolidge

Well, this story served so that in 1955 the ethologist Frank A. Beach give the name of Coolidge effect to animal behavior (applicable to humans in the same way) by virtue of which the change of partner stimulates the subject's libido, both in males and females. And not only that, in men it also affects their refractory period. It has been proven that this time is much shorter before a new partner, compared to a regular partner. In addition, semen production seems to be greater when aroused by novel intercourse, compared to that performed with a daily partner.