Almost half of women prefer Internet to sex

The survey, conveniently carried out online and probably taking longer to complete than the average bunk-up, found that 46 per cent of women would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up the joys of the Internet for that long.

Surprisingly, a full 30 per cent of men also admitted they'd rather lose two weeks of sex than losing their, er, connection, with 39 per cent of men aged 18-34 willing to take up temporary celibacy compared to only 23 per cent of men aged 35-44.