If you’re one of those who often exchange sexually explicit message with your partner to get him or yourself into the mood or fulfill fantasies, there’s a high chance that you start faking an orgasm ‘virtually’.
This new research in journal Computers in Human Behavior, showed that women lie more while sexting than men. About 45 per cent women were found to fake their texts compared to just 24 per cent men. According to Michelle Drouin, an associate professor at Indiana University, most people lie while ‘sexting’ to please their partner.
For the study, the participants listed several reasons for lying, including wanting to make a partner happy or fulfill a partner’s fantasy. Some said they lied to avoid upsetting their partners. During the study, researchers examined the prevalence of ‘sexting’ among 155 college students – 62 men and 93 women. They found that some of them who reported having lied while ‘sexting’ did so to ‘get in the mood’.
Other said they wanted to see how their partners would react to their ‘fake’ texts. But some people lied because they were bored or there were other people around while they were ‘sexting’, the study noted. ‘In relation to other types of sexual deception, the overall incidence of lying during ‘sexting’ is slightly lower than pretending orgasm in a face-to-face context,’ Drouin wrote. Lying while ‘sexting’ can harm relationships, researchers warned.
Is sexting cheating?
Seema Hingoranny, a clinical psychologists told DNA, ‘For me sexting someone other than your partner is a form of cheating as a partner is investing his/her time and emotions, even if physical contact is missing. It’s highly addictive and in many cases I see that the person who does it, avoids spending time with his/her partner. When people, who are in a committed relationship, engage in sexting, they’re more likely to get involved in an actual relationship in the real world, is what I have noticed in my practice. It is clearly a form of emotional betrayal or emotional infidelity.’ Read more about whether sexting is cheating.
With inputs from IANS
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