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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.'"
Stats are wrong.
This study suggests that iPhone users report more sexual partners.
That doesn't necessarily mean more sex.
One guy who marries a woman, loves her and has mind-blowing sex with her three times a week, is clearly ahead of some guy with an iPhone who had ten one-night stands.
Futurist Traditionalism
Correlation != Causality
I'm trying to find a link to the study that showed homoexual men have more partners and less long term relationships.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Let's start an open source project to fix this miserable discrepancy.
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship
What are you talking about? They've been faithful to Apple and AT&T for almost four years now.
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Well now you're just being jealous. You'd take 10 sex partners if you could get 'em.
Actually, this says that iPhone users REPORT sex with MORE PEOPLE than other phones. Maybe they're just more concerned with their image than users of other phones? ;)
Last week poll was about iPad users being rich and egoistical... and now about getting more sex? ;-P
To some it up, they get ditched quickly even though they appear nice on the surface, they really are one sided assholes
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
What? I heard if I went with Apple I wouldn't have to deal with viruses or infections!
Are you saying the birth control app is useless too?!?!?!?
Yeah, because everyone that has had multiple partners in the past gets STDs.
You sound like a public service announcement from the Eisenhower administration.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Seriously? You are SO JEALOUS that you are wishing harm upon people who know how to have a good time? Wasn't there a character in Robin Hood like that? Maybe it was Men in Tights.
Whale
Yeah, because everyone that has had multiple partners in the past gets STDs.
No, but there is a positive correlation between number of partners and the probability of catching a disease. It's just like buying more lottery tickets, only the odds aren't millions to one - only hundreds to one. Enjoy your prize.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
And thus can afford prostitutes more often then Android and Blackberry owners.
--- What?
Either that, or people lie on surveys to sound more chaste than they are.
As the saying goes:
To find out how many partners a woman has been with, ask her and multiply by two.
To find out how many partners a man has been with, ask him and divide by ten.
More Twoson than Cupertino
The birth control app never passed approval for the app store.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
"Wanna find someone for a one-night stand? There's an app for that!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Trust me, being widely known as an avid slashdot reader is a MUCH more effective form of birth control!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
only hundreds to one.
Actually 3:1, according to most studies(!)...
Most of that is herpes...
For Males 25 to 29
For Males 30 to 34
There are differences based on race - Latinos have a median of 4.5 and African Americans of 8.3 - and sex: a quick glance at the numbers shows that a much greater percentage of women have had 1 partner (25-29 being 22.5% and 20-24 at 20.5%) than their male peers.
THAT explains why so many iPhone haters are on Slashdot.....
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
As someone on another blog observed, the REAL outcome is that no matter what phone you own -- girls has more partner than men.
I'm an Android user, and I got laid last night. By a remarkable coincidence, so did my wife, and she doesn't even own a "smart phone"!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
And yet, according to a genetic study 80% of women have reproduced while only 40% of men reproduced. 60% died without ever reproducing. Until recently, the winners reproduced and the losers didn't. But even women losers managed to reproduce most the time.
There are many reasons for this in premodern societies. (and here I'll use premodern to mean pre industrial revolution roughly)
1) Traditionally mens jobs were more dangerous, and fatalities among men were more common
2) Traditionally men often had to fight in defense of home/state/county/country/whatever in higher numbers, where fatalities were high.
3) In many more traditional societies, women HAD to get married and have children. Less so for men. Maybe not the norm, but think of such famous examples as Newton. It's really only recently even in the US where there is not as much a stigma of a woman choosing to either not get married or not have children.
4) Polygamy or multiple consorts/concubines/girlfriends/what not IS a reason. One rich man can support several wives. Polyandry is not nearly as common.
Polygamy (formal as wives or informal as lovers/mistresses) is very common for the wealthy now and in the past.
But polygamy means one thing--having more than one spouse. Having affairs doesn't mean polygamy.
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.
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