Statistics I don't believe: cellphones and sex edition

[walkitout]

There are a couple of statistics making the rounds that I don't believe. One of them (eighty some odd percent of women want to be asked before having anal sex) I don't believe because I don't believe _anyone_ wants to be surprised in that particular way (and the statistic purports to be about women who want to have anal sex, so what you were thinking as an alternative explanation isn't); also, there's never a source.

But then there's the one about 20% or whatever of people admit to having used a cell phone while having sex. Arianna Huffington was on the Daily Show last night, and Jon Stewart flat out said he didn't believe it, and Arianna is all, how would you know, you're a happily married man. And this is the point where we all remember that she used to be conservative, and married to a gay guy.

So I don't know, but I still kinda don't believe the 20% of people using a cell phone while having sex. Because seriously, how desperate is their partner that they are putting up with that.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cell-phone-use-during-sex-believe-it/

File this under Kids These Days?

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Is "grabbing the phone" just the author using varied phrasing, or does he really mean "answering the phone"? Because nookie getting interrupted by answering a phone is no new phenomenon. Certainly around here a phone call at that time of night would probably be either B.'s work calling about an emergency or one of the kids needing a ride. I suspect it really is voluntary use, though, which is a lot more depressing.

Someone whom I shall not name (it WASN'T ME, honest) long ago told me her husband had this unaccountable objection to her reading a book during the act. I am under the impression things have improved since.

Book!

[walkitout]

Yikes.

Words fail.

The original wording in the Harris Interactive poll Mobile Consumer Habits 2013 was using a smartphone while having sex, not answering the phone. I haven't been able to find the actual questions; maybe you'll get luckier. Ahem.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Ah, and the 81% of women want to be asked? From a sex tips column in Men's Health.

cell phone use during...

[(Anonymous)]

I have to think (barring the people who are just answering calls from the job, the babysitter, etc.) that this involves erotica somehow.

Re: cell phone use during...

[walkitout]

A viable theory! Actually, a _really_ viable theory.

It occurred to me last night that there's an entire kink-thing that involves wanting to be ignored, and at least for some people, reading, using a smartphone, etc. might be a viable way to satisfy that kink.

I don't get it, but that's okay. I don't get lots of things, and many of them are just fine and even absolutely wonderful for the people who enjoy them.