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Guest Thinkers — May 8, 2010

Coitus Interruptus

Psychology Today comments on a survey finding that one in ten people think it appropriate to interrupt sex to send a text message. Is nothing sacred?

Psychology Today comments on a survey finding that one in ten people think it appropriate to interrupt sex to send a text message. Is nothing sacred? “If you’re so disconnected, so bored, so longing to be elsewhere that you are texting during sex or allowing your partner to text during sex, then stop having sex!”

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