Survey: Smartphones Interfering with Intimacy
Survey: Smartphones Interfering with Intimacy
Posted 05/06/2010 at 5:01am
| by Paul Lilly
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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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M-ManLA
May 06, 2010 at 10:46pm
Why don't you walk in front of me naked! That would get my attention off the phone in a second flat.
Electronically charged
wildboyz
May 06, 2010 at 10:03pm
hahaha i think that only applies to the people that already have a bad sex life :P
Jims45wow
May 06, 2010 at 6:01pm
Isn't that just the usual formula of "(Standard x 2) / Me = U" ?
Ha! (I think. If that's ok...?) Yeah, HA!
Jim
checkin' the blocker...
Mr Pockets151
May 06, 2010 at 2:16pm
There's an app for that! Or do it doggy style and place smartphone on booty.
To the last nugget!
Keith E. Whisman
May 06, 2010 at 8:36am
Actually the Internet adds to my intimacy. I use the internet porn thats available to anyone that wants it for free to spice up my love life. I show my wife this is what I want us to do and we do it. There. I tend to stay away from Japanese porn though. Too freaky. Skat and peeing are just disgusting but I guess you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it. :)
TechJunkie
May 06, 2010 at 5:31am
I just want to know how accurate these so called "studies" are because I myself have never been polled, asked, questioned, studied, kicked, pulled, or molested in any way. If asked though, I would say my smartphone has INCREASED our sexual endeavors. Why? Because instead of having to whip out an actual vid cam, I can just lean over and grab my Pre off the nightstand to record the awsome goodies my wife performs for later viewing by the both of us. Take that to the bank Bayer....
zstadt
May 06, 2010 at 5:11am
haha I'm guessing this was meant to be either "sex life" or "love life"...
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