As Gawker points out in therir examination of this study – it shouldn’t be taken completely seriously. Like the study by Doritos, the business that puts on a survey often skews the results exponentially. However, this study is still a bit revealing, and it’s pretty sad, too.

According to a survey by Kno, Inc., 1/4 of students would trade sex if it meant they didn’t have to lug around textbooks for a whole year. They even said they would stay home on every Saturday night for an entire semester if they didn’t have the burden of 40 pounds of hardback books in their backpack. Now, of course, as Gawker points out – you’ve gotta take these results with a grain of salt: anyone who is visiting an eTextbook website is clearly looking for an escape from tangible books, and the obvious reason is that they are tired of carrying them, so these results are not from a random school population.

On the other hand though – we should still feel bad for those who answered anyway. College is supposed to be the time when you get laid the most, learn about your sexuality, and experiment, and yet the burden of walking mile long campuses with back-breaking statistics books* weighing them down is enough that they would give up one of the BEST THINGS IN LIFE if it meant they didn’t have to do it.

[*To be fair, I have my own qualms about the textbook industry, namely that these days publishers are releasing new editions annually of already sickeningly over-priced books, and the only reason is to benefit financially from the cash-strapped students and parents of the world. It’s a disgusting (and yet inevitable) practice and should be punished by way of red hot poker to the anus, and I don’t mean that sexually.]

To those students who answered “yes, I’d give up sex,” I sympathize. I, too, felt like Atlas with the world on his shoulders in college. Just bide your time. And if you end up with back problems from your college years, PLEASE, SUE THE SH*T OUT OF THOSE GREEDY-ASS PUBLISHERS FOR ALL THAT THEY’RE WORTH.