Sex in the web space a hit for students!

Students are practicing sex of a virtual kind. Long live the 'sexercise'

Call it a sexual revolution of the virtual kind - young Canadians are practicing a new style of safe sex and the only touching required involves a keyboard.

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Of more than 2,500 university and college students polled across Canada, 87 per cent of them are having sex over instant messenger, webcams or the telephone, according to results of a national survey released on Monday.

"We were very surprised," Noah Gurza, a founder of Toronto-based CampusKiss.com, an online dating community for students, which commissioned the first annual Canadian CampusKiss & Tell Survey.

"We did realize that new technologies are always embraced by younger individuals, but we didn't think it would've reached such a high number."

Gurza said most post-secondary school students grew up using computer technology, and their lives currently revolve around technology, so it makes sense that it would extend to their sex lives.

"It's now extended within their sexual world, whether it be as a social lubricant as a means to then engage in something that's more real, in more real time, or if it's just a means in itself of pleasuring here and there," he said.

Some 2,684 students from more than 150 university and college campuses across Canada took part in the survey. Fifty-one per cent of the participants were female and 49 per cent were male.

Of those surveyed, 53 per cent of students enjoyed sex over instant messenger, while 44 per cent did the deed using a webcam and over the phone.

When it comes to having actual sex, eighty-seven per cent of those polled claimed to be sober at the time. Ninety per cent of students who responded said their campus promotes and supports safe-sex practices.