Now an app to compare your sex life with others!

Barney Stinson, Don Draper or Charlie Harper would have loved this – an app that lets you compare sex lives!

By: Nirmalya Dutta | | Updated: April 23, 2014 5:04 pm

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Barney Stinson, Don Draper or Charlie Harper would have loved this – an app that lets you compare sex lives! The new app helps you keep track of how much action you’re getting and gives you the option of sharing the details with the rest of the world could be just the thing for you. Also Read - Tinder: Know why most of men and women use it for

The latest step in the online sharing trend, Nipple lets users log the most intimate details of their sexual encounters, right down to what position they enjoyed, if any toys came into play and whether they reached orgasm or not. Users can rate their experiences and even note down details such as the names and preferences of different partners so they never need to find themselves in awkward situations again.
Those who need quantifiable evidence of their skills can create diagrams monitoring how their own performance in bed evolves over time. Users can choose to remain anonymous or share the details of their extra-curricular activities with others via social media. The profiles of the three most active public users are published weekly on the website. Also Read - 5 sex apps for the tech-savvy couple

In an aim to encourage people to be more open when talking about sex, users are awarded ‘nipple points’ for inputting intimate details via the site. Currently in beta version, Nipple is available as a desktop app, with iOS and Android versions in the pipeline. Also Read - Lovely – a sex toy to rate how good you are in bed

And it’s not strange that such an app would get popular because an earlier study suggested that like salaries, people are happier when they have more sex than their peers. The study, carried out by sociologists at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, found we feel happier the more sex with have but that’s measured by what we think our friends and neighbours are up to. Professor Tim Wadsworth, who led the research, said: ‘There’s an overall increase in sense of well-being that comes with engaging in sex more frequently. ‘But there’s also this relative aspect to it. ‘Having more sex makes us happy, but thinking we are having more sex than other people makes us even happier.’ Prof Wadsworth analysed reports completed by 15,386 people surveyed between 1993 and 2006 who described their lives and happiness levels.

He controlled for many other factors, including income, education, marital status and health. Those who had sex at least two to three times a month were 33 per cent more likely to report a higher level of happiness than those who had no sex during the previous 12 months. That happiness effect appears to rise as we have more sex. Compared to those who had no sex in the previous year, those who had sex once a week were 44 per cent more likely to report a higher level of happiness.

Those reporting having sex two to three times a week are 55 per cent more likely to report a higher level of happiness. But how do we know how much sex other people are having? Prof Wadsworth speculates that people refer to magazine sex surveys and draw on television and film portrayals. He added: ‘There is plenty of evidence that information concerning typical sexual behaviour is learned through discussions within peer groups and friendship networks.’

If someone is having sex two to three times a month but believes their peers are having sex weekly, their probability of reporting a higher level of happiness falls by about 14 per cent, Prof Wadsworth found. Unfortunately, we have a tendency to compare ourselves who we believe to be better off in life.

‘We’re usually not looking down and thinking of ourselves as better off, but instead looking up and therefore feeling insufficient and inadequate,’ said Prof Wadsworth. ‘But comparisons are meaningful only if there’s some sense of what other people are like. ‘As such, we can only be wealthy if others are poor, or sexually active if others are inactive.’

His paper, ‘Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Other People’s Sex Lives are Related to Our Sense of Well-Being,’ is published in the journal Social Indicators Research.

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Published : April 21, 2014 12:37 pm | Updated:April 23, 2014 5:04 pm

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