If you had to give up either sex or the Internet for two weeks, which would you choose?

[malaise]

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/15/2008-12-15_intel_corp_survey_nearly_12_of_all_women.html
WOW!

48 percent of women and 30 percent of men prefer the Internet to sex, according to a new study by Intel Corp.

The study asked more than 2,000 adults what they would rather give up for a period of two weeks, the Internet or sex.

Turns out, a lot of them would rather give up sex. (This begs the question: where can we find out what they're surfing the Web for?!)

The survey also found:

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58 percent of adults would give up watching TV for two weeks rather than have to give up Internet access for only one week

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65 percent of adults said they cannot live without Internet access

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39 percent said they couldn't live without cable TV and 20 percent couldn't live without dining out

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Only 10 percent said they couldn't live without a gym membership.

[babsbunny]

1. I haven't had sex for 10 years, so..........

I win!

[appleannie1]

4. And I thought I was a loner.

[Myrina]

11. ... you've got me beat! I'm closing in on 2 years ...

:shrug:

[3waygeek]

13. 22+ years for me n/t

[deaniac21]

15. Have you lusted in your heart?

[Speck Tater]

21. 14 years celibate. I don't regret it at all. The Internet, on the other hand...

... is indispensable.

[ChazII]

34. Agree with you 100%. n/t

[DainBramaged]

22. Me too, damn, this is an easy one......

:hi:

[Morning Dew]

33. 10 years, 9 months give or take a couple weeks

a new record for me. Previous record was 8 years.

Sex is overrated. The internet is not.

[rucky]

2. The choice has already been made for me. n/t

[DainBramaged]

24. Does it involve hand signals?

[Ron Green]

3. Well, with the internet, you don't have to look your best.

[all.of.me]

5. internet addiction. lol will that reduce the population over time?! lol

[navarth]

6. sex and the internet are two different things?

just kidding.

[madokie]

7. Well at my age sex doesn't carry as much weight as it used to. n/t

[malaise]

16. Same here

but those stats are staggering.

[Richard D]

8. Wish I had the choice.

[BR_Parkway]

9. giving up the internet would be giving up sex for many as well

[Believing Is Art]

10. This is kind of stupid

A lot of people have jobs that depend on their use of the internet. Many people would be fired if they didn't check their e-mail or do any research online for 2 weeks. Unless they specified non-work related internet use, for many people this question is: would you rather lose your job or not have sex for 2 weeks?

[malaise]

18. It's stupid because there is no reason for it to be

either/or.

[EFerrari]

12. A gym membership?! Have those people ever heard of the Big Outside?

lol

[deaniac21]

14. The big outside doesn't have weights.

[EFerrari]

25. It does but they're just not all stacked up for you and waiting.

It definitely doesn't have a bottled water machine or card swiper. :)

[deaniac21]

38. I don't think you understand weight training. I suspect you aren't

much of a physical specimen.:-)

[EFerrari]

39. Then you guess wrong.

:)

[TomInTib]

17. Yeah, kinda like the Weather Channel.

When I was a kid, we didn't have teevee. But we had our own Weather Channel.

All you had to do was walk outside and look around.

[DonEBrook]

23. Piffle. There is no weather in the SF Bay area...just fog and

...fog.

[TomInTib]

27. There's weather where I come from.

And it can kill you, if you're not savvy.

[EFerrari]

28. What "weather" we have, no one is prepared for.

We have an awful week every year of hot weather and no one has air conditioning so everybody just about dies from it. Same in Winter. There's always a week or two of weather so cold, nothing helps and no one is prepared to deal with it.

lol

It was about 40 degrees with a bad, cold wind out here about an hour ago and I saw my surfer neighbors puffing their way over to the beach. I hope they don't go into hypothermia and have to be fished out. :crazy:

How are you guys? My dad is in St. Jo and I'm afraid to call and ask. :)

[DonEBrook]

31. Mostly just cold as a witch's tit and overcast. 15 degrees right now.

There are a few flakes of snow flying around but all in all it's not that bad. :-)

[anigbrowl]

37. Yeah, I am not liking my crappy wood-framed cute San Francisco residence right now

If I was the mayor of SF I'd give out tax breaks for brick houses that weren't so hard to heat. Fuck.

One of these days I'm going to move to LA. I like the weather there.

[MedleyMisty]

19. Sex, definitely.

You can have my internet connection when I'm dead.

[DonEBrook]

20. You haven't picked up one of those USB-powered dildoes?

What kind of traitor ARE you?
:rofl: :D :rofl:

[4lbs]

26. My career requires Internet use, otherwise I'm out of business. So.... no sex.

n/t

Besides that, many people who can't live without the Internet probably aren't having sex all that much anyway, so it's a no brainer for them.

[underseasurveyor]

29. Oh god take my internet.

Not having sex with the love of my life is not an option.

[Bigmack]

32. Reading some of the other posts....

I've never felt so out of step with so many DUers.

I'd give up the Net, TV, iPod, cellphone, landline, alcohol.... whatever.... before I gave up the good stuff with the love of my life.

[underseasurveyor]

35. I'm with you

That other stuff is just that.. stuff, and easily substituted or replaced. An intimate bond is far more gratifying and satisfying and real :-)

[lumberjack_jeff]

43. Dude... it's only two weeks. n/t

[Bigmack]

48. I know... still, take it all instead! nt

[Shiver]

30. At the moment

The internet is how I have sex.

Long-distance relationships suck. :banghead:

[Catherine Vincent]

36. I'd give up the sex.

At least the internet isn't messy. :)

[Midlodemocrat]

40. I'd have to take two weeks off from work to do that because I am

a researcher and use the internet all day long.

So, unless my husband was going to take me to Fiji for those two weeks, I'd probably forgo sex.

[lumberjack_jeff]

42. I clicked on this on the off chance that it ended the other way.

:rofl:

[lumberjack_jeff]

41. Two weeks? No problem. n/t

[Synicus Maximus]

44. Sex

I ain't getting that much anyway.

[MrSlayer]

45. The internet will still be there after two weeks.

I need my vitamin S at least once every three days or I start to lose my mind. I prefer a daily dose.

[tjwash]

46. I'm married, so I don't have sex anyway.

So I'll keep the net

[Number23]

53. !

I'm married, so I don't have sex anyway.

:rofl: :rofl:

To answer the OP, I'm happily married to the love of my life, get my groove every few days or so and I STILL don't know which one I'd give up for 2 weeks! :)

[scorpiogirl]

47. Sex.

Though I'm sure my husband wouldn't like that answer. I would go stir crazy without the internet.

[DevonRex]

49. Sex.

[Pastiche423]

50. I wonder how many who were polled

were getting any.

W/the answers so far, I don't feel so bad for not having had sex for 2,074 days. :cry:

[cherokeeprogressive]

51. I don't need the internets to masturbate. When I was in the Navy all I needed was the back of

my eyelids and about two minutes.

This poll is too narrow in it's scope.

[Doctor Cynic]

52. Internet. I can always watch TV and read the paper to stay informed.

[GoesTo11]

54. If you could use the internet twice a day or have sex twice a day, which?

The question sounds different this way, since giving up sex for 2 weeks isn't really such a change from status quo for a lot of people.

Maybe I can start using this as code with my wife "Honey, let's go online now."

[Evoman]

55. Fuck the internet....I wanna get my bone on.

You can't slap the internet on the ass....sorry net, you lose.

[marshall]

56. What about those whose sex lives are inextricably tied to the internet?

They can't give up one without the other.

[LanternWaste]

57. Well, since I've been using the internet...

Well, since I've been using the internet everyday for the past two weeks, but in the past two weeks I haven't... never mind. :blush: