is there a difference?

by Violet Blue on December 14, 2008

Um, maybe it’s just me, but I thought they were pretty much the same thing. Wups. NYT: Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?, snip:

Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic-enough banner “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.”

But the first “key finding” from the study is a little more attention-grabbing. According to the study, 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would opt to forgo sex for two weeks instead of giving up access to their precious Internet for the same period. (…read a bit more, bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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1 Simon December 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Lies, damned lies…

Did they ask how frequently they had sex in a two week period, before asking if they would give it up? Or did I misunderstand and this is two weeks of solid sex?

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