{"id":205135,"date":"2018-03-31T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/?p=205135"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:00:50","slug":"press-release-november-2017-phone-obsessed-brits-dirtiest-habits-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/media\/press-release-november-2017-phone-obsessed-brits-dirtiest-habits-revealed","title":{"rendered":"From the bedroom to the bathroom: Phone obsessed-Brits dirtiest habits revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><li><b> More than two million Brits have used their phone during sex<\/b><\/li><li><b> Half of Brits admit to using their mobile phone while on the toilet<\/b><\/li><li><b> 16.8 percent of Brits check their phone while driving<\/b><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study by price comparison site<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/banking\/mobile-internet-statistics\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finder.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has exposed the extent of the UK&#8217;s mobile phone obsession, as more than two million Brits admit to having used their phone during sex.<\/span><\/p><p><b>In the bedroom<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a survey of 2,000 adults across the UK, men are found to be twice as likely as women to whip out their phone during sex. Millennials are the generation most likely to use their phone during sex with one in seven (14 percent) claiming to reach for their phones while in bed with their partner. <\/span><\/p><p><b>On the toilet<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finder&#8217;s study also revealed that almost half (47.7 percent) of Brits confess to having used a mobile phone while on the toilet with men and women equally as likely to check in while on the loo.<\/span><\/p><p><b>On the roads<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite banning the use of mobile phones while operating a vehicle in 2003, phone-related road accidents resulted in 137 serious injuries and 35 deaths due to drivers being distracted while on the road last year.* Today, 16.8 percent of Brits still can&#8217;t resist picking up their phone while driving, with an estimated 6.6 million continuing to use a phone behind the wheel. Men are far more likely than women to use their phones while driving as over one in five (20.7 percent) admit to using a phone compared to roughly one in 10 (12.8 percent) of women. <\/span><\/p><p><b>At an event<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mobile phone users have a notoriously short attention span of eight seconds, one second less than a goldfish,** and constantly feel the need to be attached to their phones with the average user touching their phone up to 2,617 times a day.*** According to finder&#8217;s research, users are most distracted by their phones while watching a movie, concert, musical or theatrical performance (19.4 percent), followed by at a wedding ceremony (8.1 percent) and at a funeral (2.8 percent), proving the need to check in even during life-changing events. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon Ostler, CEO of finder UK said: &#8220;Having easy access to our phones can, for the most part, be beneficial. 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