SOON, BRITAIN’S HEDGEHOGS and dormice and bats will slow down their metabolisms and heart rates, hunker down and go into hibernation for winter. Isn’t nature clever? Sadly, in the human single kingdom we are yet to come up with anything as smart. Instead, the best we can muster is: cuffing.
Just in case you’re not familiar, ‘cuffing season’ refers to this time of year when single people, desperate not to spend those cold, dark, lonely winter nights alone, find a short-term relationship to handcuff themselves into. Sexy, huh? Uh, nope.
My suspicion is that cuffing season exists more as a theory, a media construct, than an actual behaviour. I’ve never met any self-sufficient single person who suddenly shifts into neediness when the clocks go back, an iCal reminder pre-set to…