Emily over at Scanner features a list of reasons why the looming recession “will rock your love life.” I don’t know about you, but economics never seemed so much fun, especially with Reason #4 in mind: “Library-sex will make a come back”:

Combine America’s declining interest in knowledge, free admission, and sultry, stuffy sex-maniac librarians, and suddenly you have an accessible, sparsely populated impromptu orgy club. The public library, with its many dim corners and unlocked “reading rooms,�? is a recession-era Plato’s Retreat. Take it from a former librarian: the microfiche room is far from obsolete when reappropriated in the right fashion.

Jessamyn says that this economic slowdown / sexual upturn is both good news and bad news, at least for us library folk, and I’m inclined to agree. Either way, there’s something admirable, if not inspirational, about Emily’s cynical optimism — definitely puts the whole “glass is half-full” argument in a new context.

P.S. This post was a great excuse to create a tag for “sex,” finally! It doesn’t have quite the flare I was hoping for, but that’s my own fault — I opted not to use “getting it on,” just to avoid any folksonomic confusion.