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Sven Vandenberghe
5 min readAug 27, 2021

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Sleeping next to each other or not? And how about sex?

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To sleep next to each other or not?

In 1880,

A British health expert named: Dr Richardson spent a tremendous amount of words on the death trap of sleeping next to each other.

He did so in his book: Good Words.

He pointed out that the toxic breath of your partner would be harmful for yourself after a while, when you inhale those exhaustive fumes from your partner when your defences are down.

Richardson believed that beds which two persons slept in were therefore always unhealthy.

If bad air wasn’t bad enough to do the trick, electrical charges might well be. Some fear was created by bringing up the fact that a spouse could unwittingly steal the partner’s invisible electrical charges.

The remedy for this all?

The single bed system. Something that Dr. Richardson had coined. This idea separates you from your partner which would be great for further health outcomes.. The idea was that each member of the family sleeping in separate beds would be doing so in healthier air environments. Other experts rapidly followed the idea of Richardson and soon the public was convinced of this being…

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

Written by Sven Vandenberghe

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