British couples having less sex since the birth of the inter

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 53664.html

British couples having less sex since the birth of the internet

People are having significantly less sex and the birth of the internet may be the reason, a leading statistician has suggested.

Professor David Spiegelhalter, of Cambridge University, found that the number of times the average heterosexual couple in the UK makes love has fallen from four times a month in 2000 to three times a month now. The figure in 1990 was five times a month.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Woman’s Hour, he said it was hard to identify the reasons behind the decline but suggested that being connected to the world all the time by mobile devices meant that people perhaps had less time for each other.

“We used to have a very big separation between our public lives and our private lives,” he said.

“Now they are so mixed up and integrated. People are checking their emails all the time. You do not have this same sort of quiet empty time that there used to be.”

The figures, contained in Professor Spiegelhalter’s new book Sex by Numbers, also reveal that men claim to have had an average of 14 sexual partners, while women say they have had seven.

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[pErvinalia]

I spend almost all day on the internet, and get virtually no sex. I declare this thesis correct!

[JimC]

They are having less sex with each other, not necessarily less sexual experiences...

[Svartalf]

I contend that people were already having less sex and that the internet took off because of that, not the other way around

[Rum]

A lot of this going on...?

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