If you can't have sex every day, what's the next best thing? Reading about married parents of two who do just that for 101 days straight, of course. Journalist Douglas Brown, who wrote about sex and love for the Denver Post, talked his wife into having intimate relations for 101 consecutive days in a quest to find out if such an endeavor is possible even with the pressures of parenthood and work looming over them daily. The result is a day-by-day account of their sex fest. Another writer, Charla Muller, was similarly inspired by the concept and published 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy the same year.
Top 10 Literary Stunts
From Hunter S. Thompson to George Plimpton, journalists have elevated the literary gimmick "What if I spent a year doing ..." to a sometimes galling, occasionally spectacular art form. TIME picks 10 of history's most memorable literary stunts