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One way to find love might just be to use your phone - though not dating apps. A new survey has found that people peppering their text messages with emoji are more likely to be having more sex.

The logic is simple: according to researcher Dr Helen Fisher, those text-senders getting to grips with the aubergine and peach emojis are better at expressing their emotions, which means they get more dates, and that can result in a more prolific sex life.

Match.com annual dating survey polled 5,675 singletons across the US, and sampled enough age and gender ranges for the to be deemed demographically representative, according to the US census guidelines.

After the numbers were crunched, the same result was found in men and women in the 20s, 30s and 40s age bracket.

"It turns out that 54% of emoji users had sex in 2014 compared to 31% of singles who did not," Dr Fisher told TIME magazine.

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Indeed the research suggested that the use of emoji greatly enhanced the communicative ability of text messages, where nuanced meaning is lost due to the lack of vocal cues and gesticulatory signifiers. "[Emoji users] want to give their texts more personality […] Here we have a new technology that absolutely jeopardises your ability to express your emotion, there is no more subtle inflection of the voice, so we have created another way to express emotions and that is the emoji," Dr Fisher said.

The study also suggested that the more emojis a person used per text message, the more sex that person was likely to end up having, and that women who used the kissing emoji were more likely to reach a climax in their lovemaking than those who didn’t.

Dr Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said that this might be because emoji users care more about finding partners who consider communication a desirable trait. And this improvement in comprehension appears to be working – 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. 

As for people who use gifs instead of emoji? Best avoided, those people are complete weirdos...

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(H/T: Huh)