Survey: Smartphones Interfering with Intimacy
If your sex life isn't what it used to be, perhaps you should put away your BlackBerry and put on some soft music instead. While you're at it, turn off your iPad, unplug your PC, and turn off any other Internet-connected devices in your home, particularly handheld gadgets. According to 28 percent of women polled by pharmaceutical firm Bayer, online activities like checking email are spoiling potentially intimate moments.
Internet addicts aren't the only ones neglecting their partners. Bayer also said that long working hours, tiredness, and being too busy were all factors, while one in ten women say their fear of pregnancy inhibits them in the bedroom. Interestingly enough, one in five women admitted they shun contraception.
All of these are valid complaints, but hey, it isn't easy being a guy. While Bayer's study has the female population blaming email for their poor sex life, a survey commissioned by Intel in 2008 revealed that 46 percent of women would rather put their sex drive on hold for two weeks than to go without Internet access for that long.
Mixed messages aside, what we really want to know is where are these research firms finding respondents who rank shagging behind surfing the Web?

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