How Your Texting-While-Sexing Sausage Gets Made

The wire-service headline: “US Internet users staying connected during sex: study.” (Lede: “Computer security firm PC Tools late Wednesday released a study showing that nearly a quarter of US residents think it is fine to be ‘plugged in’ to the Internet during sex.”) The official release touting the poll: “More Americans believe it is acceptable to be ‘plugged in’ while honeymooning (29%) than during a wedding (6%) or a religious service (8%)”; a find-and-replace on the term “sex” only finds the word buried in the boring bit about the poll’s methodology. Whew! (For now, at least.)