Men more likely to click on online sex content
Updated Thu. Sep. 20 2007 5:08 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A new study in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality finds that men who spend a lot of time on the Internet are much more likely to click on sexually explicit spam, unsolicited email, and pop-ups advertising sex sites.

Psychologists at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph in Ontario used a sample of 482 Canadian male and female university students, exploring their reactions to sexually explicit Internet material.

Overall, the men had more positive attitudes towards online sexual content than women, and were more likely to explore unsolicited emails and pop-ups. In fact, the results "suggest that males were very receptive to receiving this kind of material," the authors say.