Behavior: Pigskin Sex

One of the gravest crises to occur recently in many U.S. households happened on Christmas Day, when the 82-minute and 40-second televised struggle between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, the longest in professional football history (see SPORT), left many a turkey dinner in limbo—and many more of the nation's "football widows" in a state of frustrated anger. Now, if the housewives buy the theory of a Brooklyn psychoanalyst, they have even more to grumble about.

"It's no longer just for entertainment that men watch eight hours of football a day," says Psychoanalyst Morton Golden. The other motivation? Sex. Men...

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