There was a time when sex was something very intimate between two people. The intimacy of sex happened in the privacy of your home. Today this sense of privacy has been lost. Through the use of social media, Planned Parenthood started a campaign "Where Did You Wear It?" handing out condoms with QR codes on them. Essentially, users scan the code with their smartphone to register where they had sex, who with, and how good it was.
Where Did You Wear It?

If this isn't bad enough, there are literally dozens of social networks dedicated to having sex, meeting for sex, or sharing your sex via video or whatever. Some may not actually be putting their sex lives out on the web for others to see, but research has shown where the intimacy of their sex lives are being invaded in another way - themselves.

Recent surveys showed that:

Every night 21 percent of Americans text and 36 percent curl up to computers before sleep

For many people the desire to stay close to social networking may seem to be an addiction. This many not be far from the truth as they may be experiencing the same release of chemicals in their brain during sex as they are when divulging personal information on social networks. Essentially, research has shown social media provides the same sexual gratification as having sex itself - minus the orgasm.

Far too many people have inadvertently allowed social media to replace much of their need for sex and has further removed the intimacy experienced between two people.
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Research has also discovered that there are two parts of the brain engaged when you "talk about" yourself and both parts are linked to the areas associated with reward - the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), which is the part associated with reward, pleasure, and addiction and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) - linked as well to reward processing, such as feelings we experience when we are in love.
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People are their own worst enemies, when they bring their computers, tablets, or smartphones into the bedroom. Life is short and time flies by, before we know it time is gone and we can not make up for lost time. The bedroom is no place for social media to used. This is a place and time for you and your partner. Regain the intimacy and lose the computers, tablets, and smartphones.

12 percent of mothers use their smartphone during sex

Not only have people replaced intimacy and sex with social media, they have also found new lows to devalue one another. Recently, two 15 year old boys were arrested for luring other teens into prostitution using social media. Their "hookers" were aged 13 - 17 while the "johns" were purported to be of legal age.

Furthermore, authorities are still looking for a 17 year old female involved with the case, indicating this was not a male using female scenario. Essentially, it was a person using person scenario. Social media itself does this as it makes billions of dollars in revenue using the profiles and interests of its users to make money.

We have to be careful not to lose to social media what is most intimate about us as humans, our sexuality.