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Online spousal spying widespread in the UK

One in five married UK couples admit to electronic snooping on their spouses, says a report from Oxford University. The report found that many married partners spy on their partner's emails and text messages. One in eight (13 per cent) confessed to checking on internet history files to monitor sites visited by their better …

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It may be Oxford...

... but this 'Department of the Bleedin' Obvious' report is still sensationalist flim-flam.

"A large majority (94 per cent) also disapproved of cybersex" Blimey! Really? Most couples don't want their partners wanking while a stanger IMs obscenties at them? What a surprise!

Actually, the 94 per cent can piss off - it's the other 6 per cent I want to meet online.

RE: It may be Oxford...

I think that's probably the "Around six per cent of married internet users said they first met their partner online"

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