Only three out of 10 respondents to The Irish Times sex survey say “negatively”, with this rising to more than one-third for men in the 25-34 age category and 38 per cent of women of the same age.
Do gadgets get in the way of sex?
If you or your partner use your phone, tablet or laptop in bed, how does it affect your sex life?
Base: All sexually active participants who answered the question.
Base: All sexually active participants who answered the question.
It has a positive impact
It has a positive impact
It has no impact44%
It has a negative impact29%
We don't use these devices in bed25%
2%
It has a positive impact
Total:
9,470
9,470
Just one in four sexually active people who responded to the survey said they didn’t bring their phone, tablet or laptop to bed with them, but if you want to ignite romance, technology needs to be banned from the bedroom, advises Trish Murphy, psychotherapist and Irish Times agony aunt. Psychosexual therapist Teresa Berginmakes the same point.
“Browsing the web or scrolling throughFacebook is akin to having a conversation with a third person in the room,” she adds. “It’s a real barrier to intimacy and a roadblock to any sexual activity.”
While most respondents said that technology was not having a negative affect, sexologist Emily Power Smith thinks they may be wrong. “I would suggest that the numbers [experiencing a negative effect] might be higher,” she says. Her logic is that respondents who use technology in the bedroom have to be missing sex.
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