--- title: Match.com's 2014 Singles in America Survey: What Emoji Say About Sex description: Match.com's annual dating survey found that people who use more emojis in text messages have more active sex lives canonical: https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-04T15:37:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:27.514Z og:title: What Using Emoji Says About Your Sex Life og:description: A study found that people who use more emoji in text messages have more sex og:url: https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83d40103fd8f15a/69877d865f570fd90eb15160/165556581.jpg?branch=production&width=1025&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1025 og:image:height: 577 og:image:alt: 165556581 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Using Emoji Says About Your Sex Life twitter:description: A study found that people who use more emoji in text messages have more sex twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83d40103fd8f15a/69877d865f570fd90eb15160/165556581.jpg?branch=production&width=1025&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex > Sponsored content. 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Match.com’s annual Singles in America survey — which polled 5,675 (non-Match using) singles whose demographics were representative of the national population according to the U.S. Census — found that people who have more sex, tend to use emojis more. “It turns out that 54% of emoji users had sex in 2014 compared to 31% of singles who did not,” Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University who helped lead the study, tells _TIME_. And the more emojis singles used, the more sex they tended to have, as illustrated by Match’s handy emoji-to-intercourse graph:  Match.com's Singles in America Survey According to the data, released Wednesday, these statistics held true for men and women in the 20s, 30s and 40s. And, food for thought, women who use kiss-related emojis have an easier time achieving orgasms with a familiar partner. That may be because emoji users cared more about finding partners who consider communication a desirable trait. It’s notoriously difficult to read tone in texts and emails, but emojis can bridge the gap. “\[Emoji users\] want to give their texts more personality,” says Fisher. “Here we have a new technology that absolutely jeopardizes your ability to express your emotion… there is no more subtle inflection of the voice … and so we have created another way to express emotions and that is the emoji.” Because it’s not all about that rocket ship/volcano/insert-other-suggestive-emoji here. “Emoji users don’t just have more sex, they go on more dates and they are two times more likely to want to get married,” Fisher says. “Sixty-two percent of emoji users want to get married compared to 30% of people who never used an emoji… that’s pretty good.” Thankfully there are appropriate diamond cartoons for your inevitable Instagram engagement announcement. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/"},"headline":"People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex","datePublished":"2015-02-04T15:37:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:27.514Z","description":"Match.com's annual dating survey found that people who use more emojis in text messages have more active sex lives","url":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Living","society","Dating","Sex","relationships","emoji"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83d40103fd8f15a/69877d865f570fd90eb15160/165556581.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte83d40103fd8f15a/69877d865f570fd90eb15160/165556581.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"165556581","caption":"165556581","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/","name":"People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The 6 Most Useful iPhone Tricks You Should Know","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zJWidSGQ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-01-27T15:44:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zJWidSGQ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/","duration":"PT1M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3694763/match-com-dating-survey-emoji-sex/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```