Web or Sex? Nearly half of women
would rather go online
WASHINGTON
(AFP) - - Nearly one out of two women would rather give up sex for two
weeks than go without the Internet, according to a survey
released Monday.
Women walk past an Internet cafe. Nearly one out of two women would rather give up sex
for two weeks than go without
the Internet, according to a survey released Monday.
Far fewer men would choose to go without sex, according to the survey of
2,119 adults
carried out by the online research firm Harris Interactive and
sponsored by Intel Corp., the
world's biggest computer chip maker. Forty-six percent of the women polled said they
would rather go without
sex for two weeks than give up access to the Internet for the same
period of time, according to the survey, "Internet Reliance in Today's Economy."
Only 30 percent of men said they would rather forgo intimate relations
than cyber ones.
Ninety-five percent of those surveyed said it is "very important,
important or somewhat
important" to be able to access the Internet. Sixty-five
percent of those surveyed rated Internet access above other discretionary
spending items such as cable television subscriptions (39
percent), dining out (20 percent),
shopping for clothes (18 percent) or a health
club membership (10 percent).
Sixty-one percent of the women
surveyed said they would rather give up watching television
for two weeks than give up access to the Internet for one week.
Harris Interactive and Intel said the survey was conducted November 18-20.
They did not
provide a margin of error for the results.
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