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What are women looking at online?

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It takes Zoe Williams a while to get to the point in this piece in the Guardian about who's doing what on the net, dosage there but according to a joint study by the LSE and Nottingham Trent University, mind medical 14% of wives read their husband's e-mails and 10% check their browsing history. 

She then goes on to argue that although the internet creates a whole new territory of misdemeanour, sildenafil unhealthy not all of it is male. Indeed, she says that: "When people talk about predatory men, or naive and/or bullying teenagers, they miss the major UK demographic, the one in which we outstrip internet usage anywhere else in the world, which is among housewives."

According to another survey by global market information group TNS, UK "housewives" (I'm not sure who qualifies as one of them) spend 47% of their leisure time online. Some of it is entrepreneurial (almost half of all UK "housewives" make some money online), but most of it is "pointless messing around" which, she says, is generally assumed to be a positive force for good. 

But Williams challenges that assumption and points to some of the other virtual interactions going on. In particular, she mentions the Facebook groups full of vigilante rage directed at child abusers, including 245 groups calling for the death/life sentence/dismemberment of Vanessa George, the nursery worker who took pornographic photographs of her charges and exchanged them with a man and woman she'd met on Facebook.

And then there are the lonely hearts ad (she mentions a lesbian con artist who made about £100K before she was discovered) and the "Jihad Jane" case in the US involving a woman who wanted "to do something, somehow, to help suffering Muslims".

Her point seems to be that "the devil will find work for idle hands". So it's not just men on the net who are predatory – women with time on their hands are not angels either.

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