Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex

An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"

Comments

Re:More sex? Not necessarily

[TerranFury]

only hundreds to one.

Actually 3:1, according to most studies(!)...

Most of that is herpes...

Re:It's a selling feature

[phoenixwade]

If you're gay - there really IS an app for that...... lol http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grindr-gay-bi-curious-guy/id308956623?mt=8

Re:Phone sex over video chat doesn't count

[kurokame]

Given that this particular case of horrible statistics fail was all over the net for a while before it hit Slashdot, I'm guessing "an anonymous reader" may be code for "several dozen readers all submitted it at once."

Re:More sex? Not necessarily

[MBGMorden]

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/genital_herpes/article_em.htm

That alone states that there are 45 million cases of geneital herpes in the US. There are around 309 million people in the US.

So 1 in 7 people in this country have genital herpes.

The following states that 1 in 5 people in the US have SOME STD:
http://www.agapeprc.org/std.php

So while it's a bit short of 1 in 3, 1 in 5 is still not far off the mark (and MUCH more common than 1 in "hundreds"), and it's obvious that herpes makes up the majority of those cases.

As mentioned in the linked article, a big reason behind it being more common than you'd think is that herpes (along with genital warts and several other diseases) is quite often asymptomatic. You can have it and have no ill effects, but still be able to transmit it to others.