According to a new study conducted by Match.com with the help of Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, people who use emojis are getting laid more, y’all! The study, which surveyed both women and men in their 20s, 30s and 40s, concluded that 54% of emoji users had sex in 2014 — compared to 31% of singles who did not.
Additionally, they found that women who use kiss-related emojis have an easier time achieving orgasm, which seems kind of oddly specific. Emoji use also reflected an individual’s desire to get married, with 62% of emoji users wanting to get married compared to only 30% of non-users.
But what’s the reason for their findings? Here’s some insight, via TIME:
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.”
One could go so far to argue that emojis even offer an advanced way to convey emotions, because before emojis came along there was really no subtle way to suggest to a current or potential sexual partner that you wanted to get down better than “finger pointing” emoji directed at the “OK hand sign” emoji followed by the “thumbs up” emoji. It really just takes out all of the guess work.