I am back. I came across this tidbit and will ask my question later.
Students embracing virtual sex
By Natalie ArmstrongTue Feb 14, 8:24 AM ET
Call it a sexual revolution of the virtual kind -- young Canadians are practicing a new style of safe sex and the only touching required involves a keyboard.
Of more than 2,500 university and college students polled across Canada, 87 percent of them are having sex over instant messenger, webcams or the telephone, according to results of a national survey released on Monday.
"We were very surprised," Noah Gurza, a founder of Toronto-based CampusKiss.com, an online dating community for students, which commissioned a Canadian CampusKiss & Tell Survey.
"We did realize that new technologies are always embraced by younger individuals, but we didn't think it would've reached such a high number."
Gurza said most post-secondary school students grew up using computer technology, and their lives currently revolve around technology, so it makes sense that it would extend to their sex lives.
"It's now extended within their sexual world, whether it be as a social lubricant as a means to then engage in something that's more real, in more real time, or if it's just a means in itself of pleasuring here and there," he said.
Some 2,684 students from more than 150 university and college campuses across Canada took part in the survey. Fifty-one percent of the participates were female and 49 percent were male.
Of those surveyed, 53 percent of students enjoyed sex over instant messenger, while 44 percent did the deed using a webcam and over the phone.
When it comes to having actual sex, eighty-seven percent of those polled claimed to be sober at the time. Ninety percent of students who responded said their campus promotes and supports safe-sex practices.
On this Valentine's Day, which is a crock of shit as far as I am concerned, but that is me, ever the romantic, I have only one pertinent question. Actually, I wonder why we "need" a day to celebrate our love, when it really should be done every day, especially in how we live, but that is a sappy story for another day. With virtual sex, who ends up sleeping in the virtual wet spot?
Ciao and enjoy!
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
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