Tired? Stressed? Working too long? Struggling to muster up enough energy to get busy with the better half? Perhaps your smartphone is to blame.
According to Gizmodo sister site Jezebel, a recent study conducted by pharmaceutical company Bayer revealed that 28% of women blamed the iPhone and Blackberry for the lack of their partners sex drive. Sitting alongside other predictable factors such as fatigue and the everyday stresses of the working man, smartphones increasingly appear to be an unwelcome interruption in the love life of the modern day man and woman.
Undertaken by Bayer – who recently bought the rights to the development of a female viagra pill – the study appears quite limited by it’s results. Indeed, it’s currently unclear whether it’s just men who are affected by essential pre-bedtime int0rnetz addiction, or if Apple and RIM are the only smartphone manufacturers to blame, but the study certainly makes interesting reading for anyone finding their libido being replaced by Doodle Jump, emails or just good old fashioned porn.
I don’t expect any answers, but it feels almost rude not to ask; will any of our lovely Tap readers publicly admit to being besotted with their handsets at the expense of the wife, husband, partner or “other”?
Email the author of this post at matc@tap-repeatedly.com.
This must be why I’m not getting any. Here I am, dreamy and available, but girls see that dang iPhone and they assume they’d play second fiddle!
I am too poor to afford one, and thus choking on a seething mass of desperate female meat. Save us. Running out of air. Message repeats.
Since getting upgrading to a smartphone and linking it to all of my e-mail accounts, facebook, googletalk, etc. I still leave it in the same place at night as my old phone. On a stand in the living room. At first I worried that I might not hear it, but since I no longer have to take support calls from work I realized it was silly and keeping it in the bedroom would be a distraction.
According to that study I was right! Good thing I leave it far from our bed.
I don’t, uh, fiddle with anything in bed, erm, anything technological that is. I was contemplating getting a laptop but that sounds like a bad idea now…
Sadly I must keep my smartphone at my bedside each and every night since I do take “support” calls from work.
The silver lining is that I’ve yet to ever have to pay a cellular phone bill during my entire life thus far. Work is all too willing to pick up the tab if it means using me for no charge OT.
I am occasionally lucky enough to get besotted and bedazzled in the bedroom but it’s got nothing to do with an iPhone. That gizmo stays out in the living room with my universal TV remote. Trust me, other people are way more interesting than pinch to zoom.
These comments could seriously deteriorate into double entendres and innuendo very easily…