{"id":112,"date":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/the-icelandic-love-secret-should-we-all-try-sex-before-coffee\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","slug":"the-icelandic-love-secret-should-we-all-try-sex-before-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/the-icelandic-love-secret-should-we-all-try-sex-before-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Icelandic love secret: should we all try \u2018sex before coffee\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When it comes to Iceland, there is no history of bourgeois living. Having courtships, going to institutions, restaurants, it\u2019s so recent. There is no dating culture in an agricultural society, and our city culture has just not been around long enough to become dominant. We still do our own plumbing. Dating is kind of like hiring a plumber, you just don\u2019t fucking do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sigur\u00f0arson spent 10 years living in Sweden. \u201cYou can\u2019t compare Iceland to a culture of 10 million. Sweden is like a warm-blooded mammal, like a cow, with a bloodstream, and four stomachs. Iceland is more like an insect, where the food and the excrement and the oxygen all use the same hole.\u201d I love this country.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the patriarchy never got a chance to bed in. \u201cIf you think about a rural society, there were obviously different roles for the sexes, but not necessarily a one-sided power imbalance. Everyone carries what weight they can. There was no Victorian period, there was no stay-at-home-mum ideal \u00e0 la 50s America.\u201d There was a famous women\u2019s strike in 1975 \u2013 known as \u201cthe long Friday\u201d because men had to look after their own children, lol \u2013 and after that, the idea just took hold. Within five years, they had a female president, the world\u2019s first: Vigd\u00eds Finnbogad\u00f3ttir.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/icelandic-love-secret-sex-before-coffee\">www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/icelandic-love-secret-sex-before-coffee<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Iceland, there is no history of bourgeois living. Having courtships, going to institutions, restaurants, it\u2019s so recent. There is no dating culture in an agricultural society, and our city culture has just not been around long enough to become dominant. We still do our own plumbing. Dating is kind of like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}