One-third of women pick cell phone over sex

File under bizarre studies that are nonetheless utterly impossible not to write about.

The gist: A survey of 300 residents in each of a variety of locales found that, fairly consistently from one city to the next, about 33 percent of women said they would "put their sex lives on hold for a year" in order to continue to have access to their phone. In general, 20 percent of men said they'd do the same.

The numbers were reported today for a variety of cities, with only a few variations among the results. Notably, Boston women (39%) were more likely to give up sex in favor of their phone, while Washington D.C. men (9%) were quite unlikely to be willing to make the trade.

The study also investigated a few less scandalous aspects of cell phone use. The findings include the somewhat surprising fact that about 80 percent of cell phone users are now regular text messaging users, and more than a third of users now say they prefer texting to actually talking on the phone. More than half of women even save "sentimental text messages" on their handsets for posterity. (And ladies, you know the ones I'm talking about: "Yo baby u a hottie.")

Also, the average user is spending a gargantuan amount of time on his or her phone every day: Three hours on average, chatting, texting, or using the phone for photos, videos, or other media features every day -- roughly 20 percent of every day's waking hours.

I'd write more but I have some texting to do. L8R.