Three quarters of young women think about shopping almost as often as young men think sex, researchers have discovered
2009-05-05
Females between the ages of 19 and 45 think about buying things once every 60 seconds, while men are believed to think of sex every 52 seconds. Most worryingly for some of those sex-obsessed men, half of the women surveyed said they preferred shopping to spending time with their partner.
The survey, for fashion website cosmopolitan.co.uk, interviewed 778 women between 19 and 45, and 74% admitted to thinking about shopping every minute.Almost half the respondents said they did not wear everything in their wardrobe and 40% described themselves as bag or shoe "addicts".
The current economic downturn has not dimmed the woman's enthusiasm for consumption, with 62% saying they would delay payments by using credit cards. Around a quarter said they would think nothing of spending 200 or more on an item they particularly wanted.
Psychologist Dr Jane Prince, of the University of Glamorgan, said: "So many women displaying this level of preoccupation would indicate widespread addictive behaviour."
