If you’ve ever sent racy text messages or revealing selfies to your sweetie, you’re not alone. More than 4 out of 5 adults in a new study reported sexting ”“ that is, sending or receiving sexually explicit text messages or pictures on their phones ”“ in the last year. And they were glad they did.
“Sexting is a prevalent behavior that adults engage in for a variety of reasons,” wrote study authors Emily Stasko, a doctoral student in psychology at Drexel University, and Pamela A. Geller, a professor who runs the Women’s Health Psychology Lab at Drexel. “These findings indicate a robust relationship between sexting and sexual satisfaction.”
To get a clearer picture of the state of sexting among American adults, Stasko and Geller enlisted 870 heterosexual adults to answer an online survey about sexting. The participants ranged in age between 18 and 82, with an average age of 35. The survey takers were recruited through the Internet site Amazon Mechanical Turk, and whites and women were overrepresented compared with the U.S. population as a whole.
Read it all from the LA Times.
Essentially a completely bogus survey. Conducted within the membership of an Amazon tech site (Mechanical Turk) and applies only to those who belong to tech sites, do their dating via smart phone, and skewed in a dozen ways. Rather like asking actors if they ever go to the theater, or clergy if they go to church. OK, so probably less than 88% of clergy regularly attend church any more, but you get my point.