in four cases the men performed an act of sexual intercourse with the women.’ The chilled men’s temperature rose faster after intercourse. Experiments using only one woman instead of two showed an even faster re-warming, perhaps, according to Rascher, because inhibitions were removed and the woman snuggled closer to the man. In none of the cases was the re-warming of the man any more effective than if they had been placed in a hot bath. And in one of the cases the man had a cerebral haemorrhage and died.
