At the height of Weinergate, mobile phone overages were at an all-time low as serial sexters of the visual variety went into hiding. Billing departments scratched their heads and technicians marveled at how towers that had been lighting up just 48 hours prior to the shamed politician’s come-clean press conference went comparatively dark.
Husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends nationwide made fewer trips to the restroom during date night than usual. They cuddled more on movie night. Curiously, they also became less likely to volunteer to pick up the kids or head to 7-11 for that one thing on the shopping list their partners forgot. And miraculously, a couple of days later, when the story dropped off the media radar, cellular activity ticked back up to pre-scandal norms as guilt and fear levels dropped.
Okay, fine. I made all that up. Every word.
But some of you believed me. Maybe you even scrolled to look for a graph. Not because you’re that gullible, but because let’s face it: it sounds believable. Why? Because each astonishing technical advancement in human communications – from still camera to video, from Internet to cell phone – has proven that if people can use it for porn, they will.
It took a long time for most women to come clean about enjoying dirty literature, let alone straight-up hardcore, but nowadays it’s not difficult to find female sources of all ages for a story about adult material. It wasn’t even hard to find women ready to speak about getting penis pictures on their cell phones – as long as I stuck with the 30-and-under demographic – but I dug deep (and begged a little) and they relented. Finding men who’d done it, by the way, was easier, right across age lines. Willing sources ranged from 29 to 52.
Husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends nationwide made fewer trips to the restroom during date night than usual. They cuddled more on movie night. Curiously, they also became less likely to volunteer to pick up the kids or head to 7-11 for that one thing on the shopping list their partners forgot. And miraculously, a couple of days later, when the story dropped off the media radar, cellular activity ticked back up to pre-scandal norms as guilt and fear levels dropped.
Okay, fine. I made all that up. Every word.
But some of you believed me. Maybe you even scrolled to look for a graph. Not because you’re that gullible, but because let’s face it: it sounds believable. Why? Because each astonishing technical advancement in human communications – from still camera to video, from Internet to cell phone – has proven that if people can use it for porn, they will.
It took a long time for most women to come clean about enjoying dirty literature, let alone straight-up hardcore, but nowadays it’s not difficult to find female sources of all ages for a story about adult material. It wasn’t even hard to find women ready to speak about getting penis pictures on their cell phones – as long as I stuck with the 30-and-under demographic – but I dug deep (and begged a little) and they relented. Finding men who’d done it, by the way, was easier, right across age lines. Willing sources ranged from 29 to 52.
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