Few regular readers can have failed to notice today's story about a pair of Nike-clad lovers romping in the middle of a road.

And what about the Irish chap and a bikini-wearing beauty who recently enjoyed an al-fresco sex act in full view of Thai passersby?

It seems that with every day that passes there is another couple who have thrown shame (and their underwear) to the wind in a bid to indulge their private pleasures in a public setting.

You might just think it's a symptom of a era when everyone is obsessed with nookie and armed with camera-equipped smartphones.

But now conspiracy theorists have waded in to offer their own view about what's causing this eruption of eroticism.

1 Just do it! Nike wearing lad and a girl go at in the street in Minsk, Belarus Credit: CEN

"There are an awful lot of people claiming they are possessed lately," wrote The Daily Sheeple.

"And a lot of people randomly attacking people on the bus and other forms of public transit without any obvious provocation.

"Now here’s the latest new bizarre trend hitting the sunlit streets in the last few week: people randomly having sex in broad daylight in public places right out where everyone else can see it without a care in the world (such as getting arrested or having someone film you having sex in broad daylight and put it on the internet)."

The website cited no less than seven public sex acts which have been filmed in the past month and then gone viral around the world.

Now, you might think the sex-plosion is an inevitable results of people having the same natural urges they've always had, whilst everyone else around them has a smartphone to record what happens when those passions ignite.

But conspiracy theorists think something else is at work.

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"Not all of these people were drunk and/or on drugs, either," the Daily Sheeple continued.

"So what is going on? Is this some weird mass mind control experiment? Is the Large Hadron Collider on the fritz? Is all the wi-fi finally frying people’s brains?

"Why the sudden epidemic of random public sex in broad daylight?"

We need answers and we need them NOW.