If you\u2019ve ever sent racy text messages or revealing selfies to your sweetie, you\u2019re not alone. More than 4 out of 5 adults in a new study reported sexting \u201d\u201c that is, sending or receiving sexually explicit text messages or pictures on their phones \u201d\u201c in the last year. And they were glad they did.<\/p>\n
\u201cSexting is a prevalent behavior that adults engage in for a variety of reasons,\u201d\u009d wrote study authors Emily Stasko, a doctoral student in psychology at Drexel University, and Pamela A. Geller, a professor who runs the Women\u2019s Health Psychology Lab at Drexel. \u201cThese findings indicate a robust relationship between sexting and sexual satisfaction.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n