Aussie Women Turned On By Cyber Sex

AUSTRALIAN women have welcomed technology into their sex lives, with one in five admitting to a sexual encounter in an internet chatroom.

The survey, which questioned nearly 2000 women from around the country, also found more than half had sent or received a sexual text message and one in five have starred in their own sex tape.

"As a society, we increasingly rely on technology to get the job done, whatever the job is," writes Joan Sauers in her new book, Sex Lives of Australian Women.

"Have Australian women joined the cyber-sexual revolution?"

The answer, apparently, is yes.

Sauers used an online survey to question women about their sex lives during a three-month period last year and the results are published in her book.

According to the results, the most avid participants in chat room sex are women in their 20s (26 per cent) followed by those in their 50s (21 per cent).

Some women reported finding net sex "liberating", "exciting", "guilt-free", empowering and safe - no chance of STDS or pregnancy.

Others described the experience as "empty", "unfulfilling", "demeaning", "tacky" and "pretty lame".

However, women who had good experiences with chat room sex outnumbered those who had bad experiences two to one, Sauers reports.

The webcam also forms a part of online sexual activity for some women, who use it either with their partner or with strangers.

Young women are the most likely to engage in text sex using their mobile phones, the survey shows.

Seventy per cent of women in their twenties had engaged in sexual SMS exchanges, followed by 44 per cent of those in their forties and 34 per cent of women in their fifties.

Meanwhile, 22 per cent of women in their twenties and 20 per cent of women in their thirties had been filmed or taped having sex.

Some enjoyed the experience but slightly more were less than thrilled when seeing the results in the cold, hard light of day.

Many said they didn't like seeing themselves on film because they looked "fat".

"It was fine, but to tell you the truth ... watching it again was hilarious ... not erotic ... my arse was NOT ever meant to be on a tape," responded a 33-year-old mother from Western Australia.

But a 34-year-old designer and artist from Victoria highlighted another problem: "At the time OK - exciting, defiant, liberating ... Absolutely horrified after the event - especially after we broke up".

Sex Lives of Australian Women also reveals intimate details about masturbation, sexual fantasies, same-sex sex, pornography, affairs, as well as posing the question: "Are men necessary?"

Respondents were almost evenly divided between yes and no, Sauers writes.

"It was also interesting to note that proportionately, lesbians tended to find men necessary more often than straight women," she reports.

"A lot of women feel that men aren't exactly necessary, but they're nice to have around."

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The Top 10 Wildest Places You've Had Sex

When we asked you to tell us the strangest place you've ever had sex, we expected the usual -- backseats, bathrooms and parents' bedrooms. But we never imagined that one of you would actually have done it in a hot air balloon over Australia! Your answers ranged from barely naughty to brazenly illegal! Our criteria for selecting the top 10 were simple. Shock us. Or, make us jealous. And in case you're wondering, you did -- both.

10. Finally, a reason to go the library
"During college I worked at the campus library with my boyfriend. One day he found me re-shelving books, and suggested that we take a break. We went to the top floor, which was a mezzanine with a few chairs and tables, and he made love to me right there in the open. After that, we never did get much work done together."

9. Beats watching a PowerPoint presentation
"On the office conference table! I lost an earring and spent weeks discreetly looking for it at every subsequent meeting."

8. To think of all the looting they passed up
"A few years ago there was a blackout in my city that lasted hours. I got bored of sitting around my apartment with my boyfriend -- so I grabbed a flashlight and took him to the stairwell. It was dark and stuffy, but I still remember the way the stairwell echoed when we started kissing. We didn't get caught -- but next time I'd bring a candle instead of a flashlight."

7. True story or Red Shoe Diary?
"My boyfriend and I were at a fancy hotel restaurant. Our table had a long, white cotton tablecloth. My boyfriend pretended he was picking up a fork from the floor and proceeded to perform oral sex on me. It was very exciting. When the waiter came to take our orders he asked where my date had gone. I couldn't help but laugh when I told the waiter he went to the bathroom and wouldn't be back any time soon!"

6. Driving my way?
My boyfriend and I had sex in the Lincoln tunnel going into New Jersey. You're not supposed to switch lanes in a tunnel but I think he couldn't help it! We almost caused an accident that night but I think we both would have died happy."

5. Bar owners, take heed. Especially if you're in Atlanta
"My date and I were waiting for a table in a crowded bar at the Cheesecake Factory in Buckhead in Atlanta. People were all around us packed in tight. Nobody seemed to notice when we had a quickie right there in the bar! Hey, if they make you wait two hours to be seated, you have to do something to stay entertained! We definitely worked up an appetite."

4. All in a day's work
"In my early years of college I worked at a video store that had an "adult video" room. One night while I was closing up, my boyfriend picked me up at the store for our date. He patiently waited for me while I put videos away. When I headed to go to the adult room with a stack of returned porn -- he followed me back there and we had sex on the floor surrounded by all the X-rated movies. It was very erotic."

3. If doing it your way means doing the Humpty Dance, so be it
"'I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom' ... literally!"

2. From boot camp to secret booty. Military life doesn't sound so bad after all
"I had sex in the back seat of a Greyhound bus going through Kentucky on my way home from Air Force basic training. I had gone without sex for eight weeks when this really sexy guy from Missouri sat down next to me. There were a lot of people on the bus. But it was worth the risk!"

1. And finally, as always, sin is definitely in
"When I was 18, my boyfriend I snuck into a church during Mass, and he used his hands to teach me a thing or two about prayer. I never thought the name of our Lord so many times in my life!"

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Massachusetts High School Faces Pregnancy Boom

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As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.

Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.

The question of what to do next has divided this fiercely Catholic enclave. Even with national data showing a 3% rise in teen pregnancies in 2006—the first increase in 15 years—Gloucester isn't sure it wants to provide easier access to birth control. In any case, many residents worry that the problem goes much deeper. The past decade has been difficult for this mostly white, mostly blue-collar city (pop. 30,000). In Gloucester, perched on scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless."

The girls who made the pregnancy pact—some of whom, according to Sullivan, reacted to the news that they were expecting with high fives and plans for baby showers—declined to be interviewed. So did their parents. But Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8, thinks she knows why these girls wanted to get pregnant. Ireland, 18, gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland says. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

The high school has done perhaps too good a job of embracing young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center.

But by May, after nurse practitioner Kim Daly had administered some 150 pregnancy tests at Gloucester High's student clinic, she and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, a local pediatrician, began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest on May 30.

Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future.

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