A philosopher has unravelled the mystery of why randy plane passengers can risk everything to join the mile high club after a study at Heathrow airport.

Alain de Botton spent a week observing passengers passing through the airport and discovered that the fear of death makes them shed their inhibitions. Because subconsciously they accept they might die while flying, it arouses ancient animal survival passions that sometimes cannot be quelled, he explained.

"Airports bring us closer to the possibility of death. Such an idea makes us free of inhibitions, so we make love in airplanes. Feeling our mortality, we feel more free towards sex than usual," he told Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List. "The possibility of a plane crash can perform miracles in a relationship where there is no passion," added the London-based writer.

And the smell of that blue stuff they flush with helps as well...


And then some needed even more excitement...

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