Office Romances
To celebrate the start of the festive party season, the world’s largest gay dating website, Gaydar has commissioned a survey into the nation’s work Christmas party shenanigans, revealing that over a third of Brits (34%) have naughty Noel nookie in mind – and ideally with a colleague.
Astonishingly almost a third (32%) have acted on their frisky thoughts and have already enjoyed a mischievous fling with a co-worker, and one in ten work Christmas party hook-ups have gone beyond a quick snog under the mistletoe into a relationship.
It’s not only singletons thinking about and enjoying Christmas action with a colleague –a fifth (20%) of married and 15% of coupled up Brits admit to eying up a colleague for a sex rendezvous at the work Christmas shindig.
When the festive mood strikes, the stock room tops the list of places to enjoy a quickie at 29% closely followed by the work loo (27%) and the boardroom table (17%). And when it comes to trying to attract a work fling, men seem keener to impress their party prey, with nearly a fifth (18%) revealing they’ll be buying a pulling outfit worth an average of £94, compared to 17% of women who plan on making a slightly more shrewd investment of £88 to ensnare a work play-mate!
The survey also revealed some interesting sexual habits across the country:
• Edinburgh is the naughtiest city when it comes to fantasising about having a Christmas party quickie with a colleague at 39%, closely followed by London (37%) and Manchester (37%).
• Almost half (41%) of Glaswegians admit they’ve had a quickie with someone at work compared to the more chaste Geordies - nearly three quarters (73%) of which declare they’ve never got in on with a co-worker!
• A fifth of employees in Cardiff, Brighton and Manchester admit they’d happily get it on over the boss’ desk – hopefully they don’t work for Sir Allan!
• A staggering 92% of Brighton folk feel the least need to splash out for a special party pulling outfit compared to a quarter of Brummies (25%) who plan to pull out all the stops.
• Edinburgh residents top the national average on their party outfit investment earmarking an average budget of £104 for new threads closely followed by Mancunians who plan to spend £103. This compares with Belfast residents, who plan on spending just £75 on a new outfit.
Commenting on the survey, Gaydar Product Manager Simon Johnson says: “The work Christmas party appears to be the playground to enjoy fun, festive frolics whether gay, straight, single, married or taken! The launch of our new Gaydar iPhone app means that whenever the mood strikes, our six million gay, bisexual and bi-curious members worldwide will be able to enjoy a fun hook-up at the touch of the button at home or away. So if Santa doesn’t answer your wish list, why not try the new app to find someone to share a kiss with under the mistletoe and beyond!
Gaydar is the world’s biggest and most sophisticated gay and bi-curious dating app with over six million members worldwide. The Gaydar app is available in nine languages – including the languages of love Italian, Spanish and French – and is free to download and join. The Gaydar app offers full integration into Gaydar.co.uk as well as being safe, private and secure.
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