Clackamas

The inspiration for this poll:


Survey: Many would take Internet over sex - CNN.com

By Dawn Kawamoto


(CNET) -- Just how reliant are you on the Internet?


More women would give up sex rather than go without Internet access, according to a new survey.

Nearly half of the women questioned by Harris Interactive said they'd be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their Internet access, according to a study released Monday by Intel, which commissioned the survey.

While 46 percent of the women surveyed were willing to engage in abstinence versus losing their Internet, only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise.

The U.S. survey, which queried 2,119 adults last month, found that the gap grew even wider for both men and woman who were 18 to 34 years old. For woman, the percentage of those willing to skip the sheets in favor of the Web rose to 49 percent, while it climbed to 39 percent for men.

And for women 35 to 44 years old, the figure jumped to 52 percent.

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(Results as of Monday from CNET's related online poll showed that 30.5 percent of respondents would give up sex for one year, while 26.1 percent would do without Internet access for a year. Almost 40 percent of voters didn't want to sacrifice either.)

These figures were just some of the tidbits that came out of the Intel's broader commissioned study on Americans' reliance on the Internet in today's economy.

Though not as sexy but equally interesting, the survey also found that 87 percent of respondents said the Internet saves them money.

Specifically, 84 percent of those surveyed found the Internet saved them money by comparing prices online and searching out the best deals, while 65 percent said it aided them in finding coupons, discounts, and special promotions.

And TV, which has been losing its share of eyeball time to the Internet over the years, found that the majority of adults would be willing to forgo two weeks of watching TV versus losing one week on the Internet.

Of course when it comes to TV, perhaps size matters, at least according to a different survey earlier this year of Britons conducted by electronics retailer Comet. Almost half of the men polled said they would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, according to Reuters.

That compared with just over a third of women who were willing to make the same sacrifice for the big-screen television.

TeashaMae

Are we suppose to answer as if we are having sex?

Clackamas

Well, like anything, adjust it to fit the time scale that appropriate...

Rockerchic

i could live without both...

now whether I'd be a miserable fuck in the meantime- prolly

Mikercw

Sex no problem... Internet..doubtful

Reason why masturbation is there....

martini

damn i would be cranky..

Miss Annette

Hmmmmmmm........is it good sex? If the sex is really good then I would rather loose the internet. But if the sex is aweful then I can live without the sex for two weeks.

Dragonfish

I've been w/o both before, and found the internet so much more fulfilling

Washingtonblonde

Haha.. We think alike..

Yeah.. I'll keep my internet. Thank you.

Clackamas

you all are post but not voting in the pole... what's up with that? VOTE DAMN IT!

MrsD

Voted

GirlNinja

Ive been without both....
But my going without sex seems to be more often and frequent. Internet not so much... I like my internet!

vivid

if i were having sex for the same amount of time i spend on the internet i would be one hell of a happy girl.

Bikenut

oh my god, that hysterical
voted

zooktls97

Living in this digital world, I think it's harder to live without Internet than sex.
Heck I have internet at home, at work, and on my cell phone.
on the masturbation. Dr said it's healthy.

cityxslicker

I am a post whore, bumping an ancient thread

without sex for weeks.... psfftd sexual camel. But whenn I get my nose under the tent, I am all in and for the duration

cant live without the nterwebs, it is where sex lives ! I have known that since I was 12 and dirty talkin on bbs with a 14.4 baud box ! Tandy Ts 1000 and a coleco casette drive ! makin the naughty while everyone else was playing D & D and pac man.