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People Love Sexting and LGBTQ Folks Are More Likely to Use Dating Apps, Global Survey Reveals

By M. Christian
August 23, 2017
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Sex and relationship trends in the digital age. 

Mobile health app Clue recently partnered with the legendary Kinsey Institute on a wide-ranging survey exploring the effects of technology on sex.

Translated into 15 languages with the aim of reaching residents in 198 countries, the survey received a staggering 140,000 responses—making it one of the largest of its kind.

Finding a date

Clue has since published the results in an infographic that reveals fascinating trends on how people all around the world are using smartphone apps for dating and sexual health concerns. Its six sections include: Find A Date, Learn About Sex, Sexual Activity, and LGBTQA+ Responses.

While many people use dating apps to find sexual partners, the infographic reveals the percentage may not be as high as you’d think. In fact, only 30% of respondents said they use dating apps. Even more interesting is how the use of dating apps is broken down by country: 34% of people in the United States said they use dating apps compared to 46% of Swedes. Only 3% of Russians, meanwhile, said they use dating apps.

Learn about sex

In regards to sexual health, the survey shows that globally only 18% use apps to learn about sex. Broken down by country, 19% of Americans said that they have used such apps, compared to 32% of people in China.

Sexting

Sexting, though, remains extremely popular, as 67% of respondents globally said that they have sent or received sexually explicit texts. Looking at the data again by country, it’s curious that technologically advanced countries like South Korea (30%) and Japan (34%) don’t sext as much as France (54%) and Italy (54%). Those in the US, however, do really seem to like to sext (74%).

Relationships

Using apps to improve relationships still appears to be on the low end: just 12% of respondents said that they have used apps for that purpose. It’s worth noting that men (at 23%) are most likely to use these types of apps.

Sex tracking

Sexual activity tracking app are becoming popular, as 40% of people globally said they’ve used them. The country that tops the list is the Philippines at 52%, and the United States falls behind at 45%. The United Arab Emirates comes in at 23%.

LGBTQA+ answers

There’s an intriguing difference in the use of dating apps between heterosexual and LGBTQA+ respondents. The survey noted that 44% of those who identified as Bi/pansexual use dating apps, with homosexual-identified coming in at 49% and queer-identified at 55%. On the other hand, 28% heterosexual respondents admitted to using dating apps.

What this all says

It is clear that dating and sexual health apps are resources a significant percentage of people use globally.

But while the numbers are high, the survey also reveals a large percentage of people haven’t been using apps to replace traditional methods of finding a partner or learning about sex.  Sexting, however, seems to break the mold with the majority of respondents saying they used SMS text messaging to send racy messages.

Notably, LGBTQA+ folks were nearly twice as likely to use apps to find a partner than heterosexual people. This points to the importance of the Internet and technology in bringing marginalized groups together and helping foster community.

We expect more people will use technology for sex and dating in the future. Do you agree?

Image sources: Clue

M. Christian

M.Christian loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer he has six novels,12 collections,100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to his name. His non-fiction regularly appears n many sites, but he’s most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of his erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing he can't write about … and brilliantly.”

Reflecting his unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, his stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. His collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of his stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, his fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sextech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—his ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with his friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, he’s lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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