Is it pride in pulchritude? Is it pressure from the opposite sex? Or might it even be that not so many people like to see men naked?
In an intellectually titled piece of research–”Let My Fingers Do the Talking: Sexting and Infidelity in Cyberspace”–Diane Kholos Wysocki, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Cheryl D. Childers, a professor of sociology at Washburn University, create a snapshot that some might find intuitive and some might find depressing.
Their numerical conclusions appear clear: two-thirds of the women surveyed said that they sexted. Only half of the men did. And women were more likely to send nude pictures of themselves out across the Internets. One might imagine that this correlates just vaguely with the preponderance of images of naked women in magazines wrapped in plastic, or that appear on the Web’s vast number of sexually explicit sites.
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