Internet or Sex?

If you said you'd ignore the urges "down there" in favour of checking your email then you are not alone.

A recent US study found that 46% of women and 30% of men feel exactly the same.

Perhaps this is not as strange as it initially sounds. The Internet has become such an integral part of our daily lives it would be similar to asking if we could go without electricity, our telephone or running water.

During an average week I spend close to 80% of my waking hours on a computer.

I read emails while I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. I watch movies on my Mac and leave a job where I am on the computer all day to come home and sit in front of my laptop.

If you are Internet dating there is a large online time commitment involved.

You check your messages, browse profiles and see if any new members have been checking you out. In your case, without the connection, there would be no connection.

Once you're in a relationship, switching off is another issue.

My man and I have argued on occasion about his attachment to his computer. When I walk in the room, is it too much to ask for you to remove your fingers from the keyboard when you kiss me?

And don't even get me started on the iPhone. Would he go without Internet or sex for two weeks?

The answer is painfully obvious.

A survey conducted by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society found that an hour spent online reduces face time with family members by nearly 24 minutes and health professionals are concerned about many people's excessive use of the Internet debating whether the American Psychiatric Association should acknowledge Internet addiction as an official "addiction".

We're entering new technological territory where the information superhighway usurps sex and we all know what happens to relationships when no one is getting any.

The unsatisfied tend to get going and where will that lead them?

Right back her, baby, in search of a suitable substitute.

Turns out the World Wide Web is just like men - can't live with them, can't live without "em".