“They spend more time with their mouses, but they have no time for their spouses,” is NDTV reporter Sam Daniel‘s thunderous opening line on a story on the sexual woes of workers in India’s Information Technology industry.
According to an observational study of over 3,000 IT workers, more than 60 per cent techies lack sexual drive. Laptops have encroached into bedrooms; many prefer chatrooms to real time intimacy with their spouses.
In some cases, marriages remain unconsummated due to high stress and erratic working hours. There is a spurt in erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation in men; women suffer from orgasmic disfunction and painful intercourse.
Sexologist Dr N Narayana Reddy says, “The highly targeted demanding skills of the IT industry puts tremendous pressure on couples and they are not able to rise to the occasion.”
IT bhaiyon aur behenon, come clean. Tell us, this ain’t true.
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many prefer chatrooms to real time intimacy with their spouses.
I dont know about chatting with spouses on chat room …but many a marriages have failed because of extra marital affairs on the net .
The Indian media seems to be bitten by a crazy bug. Everything has to be seen through the prism of the so-called “IT professionals”. Hundreds of people are killed in road accidents, but they die anonymous deaths. It is only if it is an IT worker that it makes the headlines. Hundreds of people are raped, kidnapped, murdered, but their fate doesn’t seem to bother the media. It is only if it is an IT professional, a Prathiba Srikantamurthy or an Adobe head, that it makes headline news. Etcetera.
This is precisely the problem with this mouse-and-spouse story, too. Indians in general, by all accounts, seem to be underperforming in bed as elsewhere. But somehow it seems to gain an added zing only by adding the prefix “IT professionals” to it. Are those extremely hardworking textile/garment workers performing OK? Are our farmers and weavers who are otherwise killing themselves having OK sex?
Come on.
Just proves the old adage that what goes up must come down.
I was wondering the same thing Aatmasakshi. I would say this affliction is mainly with the television channels. The newspapers (mainly the regional language ones) are largely still run by real journalists (no, TOI is not a newspaper). Our TV news channels need to grow up quite a bit.
Currently India’s population is over 1 billion and counting up.. May be this is just the break the country needs. May be instead of condoms laptops should be distributed to all families in the right age bracket to limit the breeding rate!!
Ranga
Ha ha, a brilliant suggestion:)
Hum Hai Humara Keyboard Mahaan!
Indian males have become Tendulkars!
I agree. Every fertile couple should bat for recent Tendulkar innings to save the country from overpopulation and ecosystem destruction!
I did a private survey among my IT friends. Most of them do it thrice a week (after an year into marriage). I feel this is just a hype by media around IT pros. They are no different from other couples. Like in other fields, of course there are some idiots who just hung around in the office till midnight, though they do nothing worthwhile.
Why are we wasting the bolgtime discussing issues which are of no use to anybody. Lets stop discussing on such idotic and stupid things which does do any value-addition to anybody. The media especially, CNN-IBN, TOI and to a certain lesser extent NDTV have gone to abysmal level of reporting and news content. And we bloggers should avoid walking into the same trap.
The fact of the matter is, when these people do have problems relating to desire and intimacy, they visit a certain doctor who will make them answer some questions on a checklist and charge them a Rs. 500 and above. And all this within 10 mins. If your wondering why, its cos he has to go give interviews and get quoted in blogs and presumably respected news publications in the city.