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Sex slump

High inflation, low wages and growing unemployment for three years have reduced Brazilians' sex drive, Reuter reports from Rio de Janeiro. In an opinion poll, 67.4 per cent said the crisis brought impotence, frigidity and a lack of sexual desire. The national average for sexual relations in this period fell from three times a week to 1.6.

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