By Victoria Woollaston. It's well known that mobiles can kill the moment - just as you lean in to make the next move, your phone rings or a work email flashes up that you just can't resist checking. But mobile phones might be having a more sinister effect on our love lives, according to new research. Scientists found that men who hold their mobiles for more than four hours a day are more likely to suffer from impotence than those who limit usage to less than two hours. Researchers asked 20 men with erectile dysfunction about mobile phone habits, and compared the results to those from 10 healthy men. Men who had previously reported impotence were found to carry their mobiles for a significantly longer time than those without the condition. Stock image pictured.

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The two phones are a curious metaphor to the dual life she lives. To hide her identity as a street-based sex worker, she has told her family she does odd jobs or works as domestic help. Most of them were unlettered, and spoke Marathi or Kannada or both. They sat clutching their mobiles phones — rugged models of Nokia, inexpensive feature phones and touchscreen Android phones of Indian brands. Mobile phones, they said, have changed the nature of business. Street-based sex workers such as Renuka manage all business over the phone. Being constantly connected also helps build client relations, so to speak.
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