Or at least that is how it seems. This week The Local – Swedish New in English featured two sex related stories.
A Swedish/American study has set about examining the growth of internet sexcapades and according to The Local it has revealed that cybersex is no longer just for “lonely loons.”
The study has revealed that the internet sex phenomenon is opening up a new world for those who may previously not have been able to experience sex, including women and gay men.
According to The Local the cybersex experience makes it easier for women to take control over sexual liaisons (the picture run with the story is two women looking at a laptop together, to illustrate this point), gay men to get together and teenagers to find answers to their sexual questions without having to ask an actual person. Despite this research, The Local reports that the image of cybersex amongst the Swedes surveyed was still largely negative, even though the majority have admitted to having visited a sex page at some point.
We at Newsnibbles don’t like to simply report other people’s news with no investigation into the subject (no, really, we don’t) so we conducted our own survey on the fan page.
We asked how they thought “internet sex” differed from the real thing.
Angela said: “no need for condom expense, less mess, and no cuddling obligations…. just saying.”
Chimp said: “less cables with the real thing. I’m very white bread me when it comes to cables… no more than three and they have to be the right colour.”
Denise said: “you can’t get pregnant with internet sex.”
Pat said: “I find that a mixture can spice things up. For example, there was one amazing time which featured a 2 stereo RCA cables, a VGA cable and 2 XLR leads for balance (haaa, balance! Like in audio, with a balanc… with… with a bal… balance… you know? Hello? Anyone? … I’ll… I’ll just go)” – We think this last comment maybe in reference to cables, rather than the actual question, but since we didn’t understand it we thought we’d publish anyway, so as not to seem biased.
There was also disappointment this week for those who were hoping to enrol in the World’s first international sex school after the Swedish artist and founder admitted to the whole thing being a massive hoax and merely a publicity stunt. For the elaborate hoax, instigated by an Austrian advocacy group known as The Bird Base, in an attempt to raise awareness about the country’s low birth rate, an international press conference was held. The artist admitted to being surprised how seriously people took the news, and chided journalists for not doing research before attending the conference. Newsnibbles was not invited, presumably because our high calibre interns would have discovered the hoax from their cupboard think tank and all would have been ruined. That said, a trip to Austria would have been nice. Just saying.
Read about the research here.
The sex school hoax here.
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