And you thought I needed to know this because?

Let's say you and your spouse haven’t had sex in so long that you can’t remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, “Honey, you know, I’ve been thinking. Why don’t we do it for the next 365 days in a row?”

That’s more or less what happened to Charla and Brad Muller. And in another example of an erotic adventure supplanting married ennui, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar, if abbreviated journey: 101 straight days of post-nuptial sex.

Hey, that's cool. I mean, lots of married couples have sex on a regular basis, right? Here's the weird stuff.

Both couples document their exploits in books published this month . . .

Ummm. Why?

Are you giving me recipes? Are you perhaps, as Julie Powell did with Julia Child's cookbook classic, working your way through the Kama Sutra and documenting your successes and failures as you learn to become the ideal lover?

Charla apparently had no intention of writing about “the gift,” as she euphemistically refers to it. She was simply a homemaker and marketing consultant, who in 2006 wanted to give her husband a special 40th birthday present.

“This is something no one else would give him,” she said in an interview. “It didn’t cost a lot of money. It was highly memorable. It met all the criteria for a really great gift.”

Oh, so it was a personal journey. Well, why not keep it personal?

The book idea came up serendipitously. Charla had lunch with a friend, Betsy Thorpe, a former book editor and her eventual collaborator, who had relocated to Charlotte. She saw the stuff of literature in the couple’s nightly trysts (the women met three-quarters of the way through the Mullers’ annus mirabilis).

Ah, i get it now. There's a retirement fund that needs to be padded.

Look, i'm really happy that having a lot of sex worked for these couples.

Oh, who am i kidding? I don't know them from a hole in the wall, and i have no feelings one way or another about whether or not their relationships improved from having all this sex, or will fall apart once everyone in their home towns gets a full on look at what's going on between the sheets. It's just one more example of this incredible narcissism that infects the 21st century. Sometimes you need to lower the blinds and draw the curtain.