If you’re a woman, you are 25 times more likely to hear filthy come-on lines while online than if you are a man, according to a new study. The research by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering demonstrates that chat room participants with female user names received 25 times more “threatening and, or sexually explicit” private messages than those with male or sexually “ambiguous” user names.
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Study Shows Threatening Chat Messages More Common for Women
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski May 27, 2006 01:30 AMIf you’re a woman, you are 25 times more likely to hear filthy come-on lines while online than if you are a man, according to a new study. The research by the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering demonstrates that chat room participants with female user names received 25 times more “threatening and, or sexually explicit” private messages than those with male or sexually “ambiguous” user names.