Let’s just be clear here. I love the internet. Love. We’re talking the kind of love a tranny has for pumps. The kind of love that Germans have for schnitzel . The kind of love that Nicole Richie has for not eating.

One thing that I don’t think anyone should love more than the internet, though, is sex. And a recent study says that many women do actually prefer the world wide web to sex.

Ars Technica reports:

According to new survey results from Intel, women are more likely than men to willingly sacrifice sex for two weeks than risk losing Internet access for that long. And you thought headaches were a problem…

Almost half (46 percent) of all women said that they would choose the Internet over sex for two weeks. Broken down, the numbers are even more scary for the male side of the population: 49 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 34 would rather have the Internet than some tender lovin', and 52 percent between age 35 and 44 felt the same way. It looks like the numbers only go down in the upper age groups, who don't tend to spend as much time on the Internet in the first place.

Men have trouble resisting the succubus that is the online world either, but in lower numbers (30 percent overall). 39 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 34 said they would sacrifice sex for the Internet for two weeks, while a mere 23 percent of those between 35 and 44 said so.

Ladies, ladies, let’s not be ridiculous. If you really feel like the internet is more important than sex, you obviously aren’t having very good sex. So instead of spending all day on About.com or whatever it is that you’re doing, why don’t you get off the computer and find someone new to have sex with? Better yet, why don’t you use the internet for all its resourceful glory and find better ways to have sex! Or porn! Just remember, it’s probably much better for you to dump your inadequate boyfriend than become an inadequately sexually satisfied internet geek.