When it comes to trusting the online habits of your spouse, where they surf to, what they consume, what they chat about, and who they chat about it to, it would appear that a great many married couples are divided regarding what is and what isn’t deemed to be acceptable conduct.
"Geoff, stop lying, your browsing history clearly shows you regularly visit nakedmidgets.com" Credit: Clairity/Flickr.
Moreover, according to a new survey carried out by ICM Research for the Oxford Internet Institute, approximately 20 percent of married Internet users admit to violating their partner’s online privacy in order to check through their personal e-mail and text messages.
Further to that, some 46 percent of respondents disagree on whether perusing Web sites of a pornographic or adult nature is acceptable behaviour. Of the 2,401 married people who were polled regarding spousal Internet conduct, the male component of the union displayed more of a tolerance for such adult surfing habits.
Marital trust would appear to be fragile at best where the Internet is concerned however, with the Oxford researchers discovering that around 13 percent of those polled admitted to rooting through their partner’s Web browser history in order to check where they had been.
Beyond any sense of discomfort spawned by knowing that a partner is privately visiting adult Web services, the survey delved further to find that 94 percent of partners disapprove of engaging in cyber sex, while 85 percent do not take kindly to moments of online flirtation.
In terms of divulging private relationship details via the Net, 92 percent of respondents claimed that discussing intimate sexual habits was an absolute no-no, while 89 percent would be angered by the public spotlighting of relationship troughs, and a further 88 percent would be upset by their partner passing on personal information about them.
With most married couples seemingly viewing the temptations of the Internet as a potential danger to the stability of their relationships, it’s perhaps unsurprising to note the survey also found that only a mere 6 percent of those polled actually met their partners via the online world.
For the majority, meeting their future wife or husband was an event that took place firmly in the real world, with 25 percent meeting in the pub, 19 percent meeting while in a work environment, and 14 percent meeting through mutual friends.
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