The numbers are out and female gamers have more sex than anyone else.
According to a Harris Interactive survey of 2,000 adults, 57 percent of women who play online games reported having sex, compared to 52 percent of women who do not play online games.
Not surprisingly, the people who reacted most favorably to this news were male gamers.
“Note to self, Its a XBOX Christmas for the Girlfriend,” commented Jason Gleason.
“Hello. Any of you ladies play farmville ? :-D,” tweeted @schmmuck.
When it came to female gamers, however, the response was more varied.
Women who play games might have more opportunities to connect with men than women who don’t game, according to Colette Bennett, a reporter for CNN Geek Out.
“I know that when men find out I game, they tend to light up,” she told the Daily Dot. “I think more and more women are realizing being a gamer is like a secret weapon for their sex life.”
Morgan Dempsey has another perspective. A gamer, writer, and software developer who blogs frequently about gender and gaming, Dempsey said she didn’t find the survey to be newsworthy.
“Really, 52 percent vs 57 percent does not strike me as statistically significant,” she told us in an email. “I’d like to see this same survey applied to other hobbies, such as rock climbing or square dancing or pottery throwing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the results were similar.”
Daily Dot reporter (and female gamer) Fruzsina Eördögh remembered that this isn’t the first time female gamers’ sex lives have been in the news. In June, a survey commissioned by Doritos discovered that female online gamers prefer games over sex.
Both the Harris survey and the Doritos survey were random samples of roughly 2,000 adults.
What gives? Perhaps we should defer to Dempsey:
“I’m always wary of surveys where I can’t see the methodology behind them,” she said.
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