It may be Martian to the people of the yestermillennium, but to the inhabitants of the Expectations society, “RU IBSA?” is a perfectly comprehensible question. Even a reasonable one.
Expecting there is always something – someone – more interesting around the corner or behind the next click of the mouse, we never really stop looking anymore. As I’ve written before, at the turn of the millennium we went from being involved in relationships to being IBL - Involved But Looking.
But why stop at browsing when you can be sampling?
In a recent poll by the Swedish number one newspaper Metro, the majoirty of people, 54 percent, answered that they think it is ok to have sex with several different people in parallel.
Of those in favor, 25 percent were in a steady relationship. 25 percent that have obviously moved on from Looking to Sleeping Around, their status evolving from IBL to IBSA .
Not ready to answer yes when someone asks RU IBSA? Maybe that’s because your mind is stuck in the yestermillennium. A survey of today’s teenagers, suggests one third says yes.
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And the same week another large newspaper – Aftonbladet – presented a survey stating that 60% of the Swedes could consider intimate surgery. What will happen when the readers of Metro and Aftonbladet meet?
And according to Aftonbladet, one million swedish men wants to date swedish reality show star Linda Rosing. That’s about a third of every swedish adult male. I don’t want to backstab Rosing, but to be honest I’m in doubt considering THAT survey…
(Btw, there’s a strange coincidence in this case since Aftonbladet and Kanal 5 cooperate and Kanal 5 aired a show called Who wants to date Linda Rosing? Strange indeed…)
Martin,
Love that statistic. Don’t know what to do with it yet, but I just got to find an angle sooner or later…
Bigge,
Linda Rosing makes a striking picture of the world of any – seemingly, anyone can date Linda Rosing, anytime, anywhere…
emvehå,
MD