"Not tonight, darling, I just don't want to listen to you."
(Credit: Amazon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
I know that Nancy Reagan always encouraged us to “just say no.”
But it’s not easy, is it? Some people can be terribly insistent, nagging even. Some can sulk or get aggressive.
Thankfully, it seems that Americans have found a new way to tell their significant others that they don’t have a significant mood for sex: they say they’re busy online shopping.
You might think I’m making it up. And I might think that people who create these surveys are making it up too.
All I can tell you is that the cashback rewards site EBates commissioned TNS to perform a study among 1,000 American adults that emitted fascinating conclusions.
Some 10 percent of women say they use their mobile devices — and the excuse of shopping on them — to deter their lovers from getting amorous.
But here’s the nugget that might astound even more: 13 percent of men admitted to doing the same thing.
I confess that I hadn’t considered online shopping as a means of expressing emotions toward another person. I certainly couldn’t imagine telling a lover that I wasn’t feeling carnal because I was trying to decide which pair of camel boots to buy.
And you’ll forgive me, I hope, if I mention that survey respondents … [Read more]
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