LOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) -- Fifty-eight percent of U.S. teens sacrifice watching TV for going on dates and 54 percent choose a date over surfing the Internet, a survey found.
However, "reality" only extends so far; when teens go out on dates, 53 percent eschew free options like cruising or school events for the marketing-laden options -- 87 percent choose to take dates to a movie theater, 64 percent choose malls and 58 percent choose restaurants, according to the survey of 750 teens by OTX, or Online Testing eXchange, for eCRUSH, a PG-13 social networking site.
Sixty-six percent of all teens say their parents impose dating rules, but 49 percent of boys are subjected to rules, compared with 83 percent of girls.
Jocks, bad boys and adventure seekers rule the hearts of today's teens, while 31 percent of all teens said they're attracted to "jocks" such as Nathan on the CW's "One Tree Hill" or Claire on NBC's "Heroes." Thirty percent of girls also prefer "bad boys" like Michael on Fox's Prison Break and 28 percent of boys like adventurous women such as Veronica on the CW's Veronica Mars.
