UK favours gaming over sex in bed

With the perception of videogames generally viewed as “uncool” in today’s society, you may be surprised to hear that gaming has become one of the most popular activities to do whilst in bed. According to a survey in Great Britain, people spend more time playing videogames in bed than having sex.

What we spend our time in the bedroom doing (minutes per week):

1. Sleep (3,150)
2. Talking (193)
3. TV (132)
4. Net surfing (122)
5. Reading (114)
6. Listening to music (105)
7. Using phone (81)
8. Work (77)
9. Computer games (57)
10. Sex (35)

You would think that sex would be higher up on the list but as proven, that is not the case, especially with videogames a spot higher. Are people simply not finding that “special person,” or has gaming just become that much more addictive? If anything, this controversial result certainly shows just how much more convenient playing videogames has become.

Taking into consideration the diversity of gaming consoles today, such as the features available over PSN, we can only imagine how much more popular videogames between the sheets will become once Home releases.

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  1. hindahouse | hindahouse

    • 12:32pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    haha!

  2. Erik0547 | Dumpweeed

    • 12:43pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    um id vote for sex in bed while playing my ps3

  3. NeOne303 | FKUR

    • 12:45pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    What kind of a survey is that, some people have way too much time!!  Why would you do half of those while under the sheets?? Very bizarre

  4. saso_7 | goose_7

    • 12:45pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    i thought this editor's namw was Sarad, and now its Tyrell...you aint diddy brother.

  5. JD-82 | JD-82

    • 12:46pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    so what...did they ask a load of ten year olds that haven't been getting any yet (if they actually managed to find any) what they thought...or am i the only person who doesn't play games in bed???

  6. VIPER-G1 | VIPER-G1

    • 12:46pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    LOL How about both

  7. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 12:46pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    I agree, what an F'ed up survey

  8. JD-82 | JD-82

    • 12:47pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    oh and the source on this article leads to a holding page...with no source material...

    Tyrell (Sarad) get it in gear...

  9. Mike2kcool | mike2kcool

    • 12:55pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    i no whats number one for me an it aint gameing..........:)

  10. haynsey

    • 1:02pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    bull$hit if that were true why do young chavs have so many kids!!!

  11. slim-jim

    • 1:06pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    i'd go for "BALLS DEEP" anyday., then i'd go ps3 after the fact. lolololol

     

    er.... why a double post one with avatar and one without?

  12. MMDs | MMDs

    • 1:06pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    WOW, that is sad... hope its not true. Dude i'm contemplating on whether or not to keep the TV in the Bedroom cuz it might be a distraction while we getting to business.

  13. MajesticEdge

    • 1:08pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    @saso_7

     

    Actually my full name is Tyrell Sarad Jackson. Personally, I go by Sarad in real life but for "professional reasons", it is better to go by my first name since that is also what appears on my business cards.

  14. Promethius30 | Tealcsg1

    • 1:13pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    LOL love this artical

  15. HazdoTT | Tazmyster

    • 1:26pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    well mostly true but sex.and gaming ...top 5 at least

  16. JstuFly | JstuFly

    • 1:32pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    @haynsey        Because they do it in parks and public toilets.

  17. robmv

    • 1:36pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    now I see why the europe population is so old lol

  18. iplayonlysony

    • 1:38pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Yeah, how old were these people being surveyed?  But in UK, I also heard that some married men would rather have a 50" plasma TV for 6 months without sex!  Whoa!

  19. Carl | almighty-slayer

    • 1:56pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Damn, giving away our preferences all of ther internet like this .

  20. AclayPS3

    • 2:05pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    I don't talk on the phone while in bed, I don't read while I'm in bed, I don't surf the web while I'm in bed, I don't listen to music in bed.... I never knew so many people did so many things in bed. I don't even watch T.V. while I'm under the sheets in bed because I'll fall asleep.

  21. AZURA-DRAGON | Azura-Dragon

    • 2:10pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    what is this eh i want a good news not this (bad word)

  22. MercRecon | MercRecon

    • 2:14pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    wow....just wow.

  23. gingo | gingo

    • 2:36pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    psn id: gingo.... ok this survey makes this country look really queer lol glad gaming is on it but i thought sex would be way higher

  24. vipergts2207 | D-Smitty

    • 2:53pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Reading > sex???

  25. GreyFox666 | GreyFox666

    • 3:01pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    .............

  26. SouL654 | SouL654

    • 3:14pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    i dont think thats tru... id rather lash a leng fing den play my ps3... maybe the people that done the survey didnt wanna say sex coz they felt uncomfortable....

  27. Celimnol

    • 3:20pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Maybe that's the reason Sony put rumble into there sixaxis lol.

  28. El Penetrator

    • 3:22pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    The idiot who wrote the PSU article should definately be spending more time under the sheets learning how to read. The source article stated "What we spend our time in the bedroom doing (minutes per week)" and NOT "which activity they enjoy more while under the sheet".

  29. GunsOfLiberty | GunsOfLiberty

    • 3:22pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Lame..

  30. TwiSta | TwiSta

    • 3:28pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    haha more ppl would rather work than have sex...

    Who the heck did they ask!?

  31. frank_magnet | Frank_Magnt

    • 3:32pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Thats a load of cr@p, PS3 comes straight after sex everyone knows that !

  32. bluesuedeshoes

    • 3:46pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Having now seen the source of the information and the methodology used its not a surprise. Sharpes is a company that makes fitted bedroom furniture etc. what they did was go up to customers in the middle of the shop and say "so then what do you get up to in bed?" Honestly what would you say to that from a stranger in a public place? Erm, yeah I like to play hide the sausages? I don't think so some how!!! lol. Reported in the Mirror newspaper as well, which is a wrag of a newspaper that is normally used to wipe ones backside on!!!

     

    Also @ Robmv Europes population is statistically younger than any other region in the world. I think what you might be hinting at is the general decline in population, i.e. families  having less kids. In America I think its 3.5 kids per family while in Europe its 2.1 or something similar. Either way its also interesting to note that in Europe concraception use is significantly higher per head of population than anywhere else in the world.

     

    @ MajesticEdge... you didn't ALWAYS go by the name Tyrell for articles and actually usually went by the name Sarad, so if teh name change is for professional reasons its because you've taken a lot of stick because your articles are none stories much of which is hyperbolic rubbish or worse still made up.

  33. RagingStorm | RagingStormX

    • 5:35pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    I vote have the PS3 on playing a movie or music (to muffle the noise) while having sex......thats what I normally do. lol

  34. Phantasmn | PHANTASMN707

    • 6:17pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    I think that the group of people that they asked just doens't like to have sex that much. That would be my number 1 lol

  35. Untildeath89 | willmakenewonesoon

    • 6:35pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    depends on how you look at it, you've had sex before you slept and the first thing you wanna do when you wake up is have more sex? i like surfing and gaming but the talk is also part of it, i mean i really do like to check what is going on before i get of bed, and partly because im lazzy or too excited.

  36. Billy_Bob_Joe | Nicker600

    • 6:41pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    err...... ok

  37. Ciremo

    • 6:51pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Why would sex be higher on the list? Just because Europeans f*uck alot, it doesn't mean we enjoy it.

  38. djduke316 | DJDuke316

    • 7:08pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    OK why is this news?

  39. jibthelegend

    • 7:25pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Well doing it in bed isn't fun, that's why it isn't higher on the list!

  40. robbinator | cowkong

    • 8:11pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    why not sex WITH ur Ps3, everyones happy...i no i am

  41. Motoken

    • 9:10pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    cuz you dont have sex on the bed, you have it in your room. how else are you gona go dogy style?

  42. HellsJester

    • 10:33pm GMT - March 10th, 2008

    Sex got #10?

    People rather do work in bed than sex?

    Sorry but UK sounds messed up.

  43. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 12:39am GMT - March 11th, 2008

    Hmm IDK if that was a direct jab at my name but whatever. Having sex while playing Mario Kart = pricelsss.

  44. IONIXX | IONIXX

    • 3:02am GMT - March 11th, 2008

    i have a dream that one day, al those stupid anti-videogames campainers will SNAP THE **** OUTA THEIR HISSY FIT!

  45. motzo

    • 3:02am GMT - March 11th, 2008

    WELL duurrr every one knows sex in public is far more fun

  46. RuiyJR | Tseska_922

    • 5:36am GMT - March 11th, 2008

    old europ ha ha that's the true uk is boring but japan is crazy all countrys has there owen styles he he

  47. MatrixSixaxis

    • 6:46am GMT - March 11th, 2008

    This is just a survey of what activities you do in "bed"!....I guess there's a lot more sex goin' on "outside" of the bedroom! Prolly more exciting to do it off the bed, maybe just by the window sill?!?!?  lol.

  48. engdude

    • 12:03am GMT - March 12th, 2008

    Yeah this article is totally lame - the source link goes back two sites deep and ends in a discontinued page.  There is absolutely no info about who or where or how the data was gathered.  Totally bogus.  Sex in bed tops games in bed any day, anywhere in the world.

  49. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 8:35pm GMT - March 13th, 2008

    @Erik0547

    How do you plan to do that?

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