When I was entering puberty, we had the 1974 Encyclopaedia Brittanica at home. I noticed a few years ago that the outer edges of the pages on sex are more smudged than their neighbours. Anyway, I contributed to that smudging in my day and among the facts I recall reading was one that Aran islanders had been established as having sex less often than any other group in the world. Something like 2 or 3 times per year. Whereas the island where they had sex most frequently had sex 2 or three times per day.

It didn't surprise me that a bot of Ireland should be awarded that accolade.