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Thursday, May 24, 2012

228. Divot; Impede


From, “Sex or Sleep?” by Miriam Gottfried, 5/14/12, Barron’s:

Well, it was absolutely an issue for Kim Browne of Simi Valley, Calif., when her Tempur-Pedic memory-foam bed arrived seven years ago. "My boyfriend and I were laughing the first time we had sex on the bed," Browne, a 44-year-old office manager, wrote to Barron's in an e-mail. "We couldn't move around as easily. I got stuck in a divot, and he couldn't get traction on his knees. We ended up on the floor, thinking we were never going to be able to have sex in the bed again."

Within a month, however, she says they got the hang of it -- and in fact began to like it. "Just think of this little extra challenge as an additional benefit of the bed," she wrote.
Not all adventures on these mattresses end so happily. Sari Eckler Cooper, the New York sex therapist, says some clients decided to give up their memory-foam mattress because it was impeding their sex life and causing marital disagreement. Some others, based on the message boards, have stopped using the beds for sex, taking their hanky-panky elsewhere.

Divot: turf
Impede: hinder; obstruct; delay something from happening

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