Young Canadians prefer 'virtual sex': survey

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2006

OTTAWA (AFP) — Young Canadians are digitizing their sex lives, embracing computer screens and touching keyboards ever so gently in lieu of person to person contact, according to a new survey.

Some 87 percent of 2,484 students polled at 150 colleges and universities across Canada reported having "virtual sex" over instant messenger, webcams or the telephone.

"We were very surprised that the number was so high," said Noah Gurza of Toronto-based online dating service CampusKiss.com, which commissioned the Kiss and Tell survey.

"It's a testament that the Internet has spawned a new sexual revolution."

Most of these students, aged 18 to 23 years, grew up using computers and continue to be surrounded by technology, whether for education, interacting with...