Smartphones Linked to Promiscuous Teenagers

[renegade7]

It makes it easier to communicate with potential partners privately. That's all. Give an irresponsible and horny teenager access to that ability, what do you think will happen?

 

[ElPatron]

Sounds like a complete useless study. Correlation does not imply causation, how should be smartphones be a "risky avenue"? Are they also gateway drugs now?

It all depends on what kind of target audience among the teens these phones are popular with. Since I hardly use facebook and I've got no use for a smartphone, I don't have one while at the same time I'm not promiscuous. Not having one doesn't make me have less sex, and having one wouldn't make me have more sex. This link is fallacious to say the least.

And of course homosexual teens are more inclined to look for partners on the internet. They are probably afraid of discrimination in their own school/work place/neighborhood.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Do not blame it on the phone, or the TV, or anything else you've made a babysitter out of.

However, you can blame it on the boogie.

Anyway, time to go get a smartphone.

I'm choosing to personally blame it on that damned new age jazz music the kids are off dancing to. Amazingly, I don't have a smartphone of any kind, but if this research is to believed my wife would kill me within a month...so maybe I've done right by avoiding it : )

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Space Hopper-esque physique

No way, everyone knows Space Hoppers are the epitomy of The Sexy.

 

[LobsterFeng]

This is SO dumb I'm disappointed it was even posted as a news article on my favorite website. As a student of statics I would like to shout the following "CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSALITY!"

That is to say, it could be that those with more money get laid more... Just maybe.

It IS causality. Teenagers with smartphones have more access to, say, Facebook for example. In order to text someone, you have to either get the number from them or somebody else. For Facebook, you could add a hundred local girls, send each of them a message, initiate a sexual conversation, and it's pretty probable that out of the hundred you messaged, one would be down for it. Just do that a couple of times and that's like, three in a week. And that's if only one replied each time.

I'm pretty sure if I tried that I would be registered as a sexual predator.

No you wouldn't. Because you wouldn't text "Down to fuck?"
You'd message something like "Hey I saw you on my friend's wall and thought you looked nice" and then if they reply positively you take it from there. You flirt, they flirt back. That's how things work.

If they don't reciprocate, then you simply close the conversation and pursue other, more profitable avenues.

And how is any of it illegal? They are of the age of consent (I assume, each to their own naturally), and once they say no you don't pursue it any longer. What will you say in court? Get all teary eyed and say HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SEX WITH ME OVER THE INTERNET!!!!

Illegal or not it's still creepy.

 

[Phuctifyno]

In todays news:

Supid people do stupid things, thanks to some generic and easily targetable product that we didnt have 20 years ago.

Technology does not produce unprotected sex, being born without a working brain causes unprotected sex.

Actually, it would be the brain processing the sensation picked up by your nerve endings communicating a significant drop off in pleasure caused by latex barrier preventing subtleties of the vaginal wall, as well as warmth and moisture, to stimulate minute or obscure errogenous zones along the penis.

Brain works fine. Condoms suck.

I use them, sure - but every single guy would much rather not. I don't think intelligence is the culprit when every instinct in your body is fighting the artificiality. It takes a wealth of will-power, that plenty of guys don't have, to stop in the middle of peak arousal to put that thing on, or to not just rip it off. Those that keep it on are woefully underappreciated - the ladies still think, past that point, that they're the ones doing us the favor. lol

 

[AngloDoom]

So, this study proves that people with more opportunity to use the internet are more likely to look for sex on the internet?

In other news, people with cars are more likely to drive.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Well, time to hand in my shitty Samsung M300.

So, this study proves that people with more opportunity to use the internet are more likely to look for sex on the internet?

In other news, people with cars are more likely to drive.

Also, people who play poker are more likely to have cheated at poker than those who don't play poker.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I am not a teenager anymore so no getting birds because phone related things?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I am not a teenager anymore so no getting birds because phone related things?

Nono... it means you have to resort to the traditional methods of pulling birds - going to nightclubs.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

And yet how many parents get irate if educators try to confiscate their kid's phone?

 

[Evil Smurf]

I am not a teenager anymore so no getting birds because phone related things?

Nono... it means you have to resort to the traditional methods of pulling birds - going to nightclubs.

drunk birds are more fun anyway

 

[FrozenCones]

Ladies try and contain your orgasms.

 

[RadioactiveMicrobe]

My girlfriend has a smartphone, and it does not promote any promiscuity from her what-so-ever.

 

[Strazdas]

In todays news:

Supid people do stupid things, thanks to some generic and easily targetable product that we didnt have 20 years ago.

Technology does not produce unprotected sex, being born without a working brain causes unprotected sex.

This.

Also the article make it out like i should go get smartphone now cause i want to get laid. interesting, definatelly adding to my investment list.

 

[Pharsalus]

Sooooo.... what app is that linked to?

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

I finally come back to The Escapist after a short hiatus, and what do I find?

A study that says: Cell phone = SEX.

I must admit, this is a pretty strange thing for science to be researching.

 

[Smooth Operator]

The correlation probably comes in from another angle, previous research has shown that dumb people have more sex, and another that dumb people are the biggest market for "hip" shit.

So if you really want to do the nasty more often then whip out a clown suit and get in character.