Text Sex Survey Shocker

A global study of over 8,500 people commissioned by LogicaCMG has revealed that one in seven people in Britain have sent sexy or flirty messages to someone other than their partner.
Ipsos MORI carried out the research among 8,518 consumers in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia, Italy, the UK and Germany in November 2006. It found that Brits were second only to Malaysians in the text rat stakes. Brits are also the most suspicious, with one in six people checking their partners phone for suspicious messages.
The study also found that millions of Italian men use text as their primary tool for wooing lovers. One in ten relationships in Italy started with a text invitation for a first date, and nearly a third started with text-flirting. At the opposite end of the love spectrum, almost one in ten Singaporeans have used SMS to break up with someone. Germans are the least likely to be text-ditched, while 3% of Brits have been dumped in this way.
“We deliver more than half of the worlds text messages and therefore understand the depth of emotion tied up with sending and receiving just a few characters of text says LogicaCMG telecoms Chief Marketing Officer  Jayne Chace. The reaction people have when their phone beeps to signal an incoming message resonates deeply within them, and this brings out the best and worst in people, as we can see in this report. It is clear that wherever you go in the world, texting has become a primary tool for people to get into, and out of, relationships – sometimes without even meaning to.”