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the internet is now a major player in the romance world.
in the good old days, you had to go somewhere where there were actual people in order to "fall in love".
now all you have to do, apparently, is register "online" at an "agency" and wait for your dream partner to materialise from the depths of cyberspace.
i have a friend that did this. i will call him clay ... 'cause that's his name.
. clay is 29 yrs old, funny, clever, interesting, and cute. he is also shy.
he did not mention his shyness in his profile ...
(... he really should have).
he did include a photo in his profile ...
(... he really shouldn't have).
the combination of a cute photo and a brief but well-written profile is all that some women appear to need to mount (pardon my pun) a quest to send the most sexually explicit and graphic emails to an otherwise total stranger.
clay is mortified that they somehow felt it necessary to respond in that way. not to mention confused. one girl even offered to do something to him that he claims to have never heard of before !.
when i enquired as to the "boost" he may have gotten from all this adoration, he replied simply that he felt much worse than before he joined. he explained the very peculiar from of disgust he feels when women misguidedly force sexuality down your throat in the belief that it is expected of them ... by the man.
he had replied to one girl in a mildly flirtatious way, as very clever men can do, and she returned a rapid fire volley of smut and innuendo that was just embarrassing to read. another girl told him she was masturbating over his photo ... one even looked up his phone number and phoned to offer to meet him for sex.
males dream come true ? ... not bloody likely !.
by clays' way of thinking, anybody with so little regard for themselves and such a misguided idea of "what men want" is to be avoided like the plague ... which is exactly what he is doing.
last time we spoke, clay had discontinued his dating agency membership. i don't blame him.
his desire to know at least the surname of someone before he has sex with has made him a dinosaur in the instant-gratification world of internet dating.
but a dinosaur that's now content to be one ... at least for as long as it takes him to work up the nerve to ask a "real" girl out ... for something much smaller than an orgy ...
... how about a little kiss, first ?
in the good old days, you had to go somewhere where there were actual people in order to "fall in love".
now all you have to do, apparently, is register "online" at an "agency" and wait for your dream partner to materialise from the depths of cyberspace.
i have a friend that did this. i will call him clay ... 'cause that's his name.
. clay is 29 yrs old, funny, clever, interesting, and cute. he is also shy.he did not mention his shyness in his profile ...
(... he really should have).
he did include a photo in his profile ...
(... he really shouldn't have).
the combination of a cute photo and a brief but well-written profile is all that some women appear to need to mount (pardon my pun) a quest to send the most sexually explicit and graphic emails to an otherwise total stranger.
clay is mortified that they somehow felt it necessary to respond in that way. not to mention confused. one girl even offered to do something to him that he claims to have never heard of before !.
when i enquired as to the "boost" he may have gotten from all this adoration, he replied simply that he felt much worse than before he joined. he explained the very peculiar from of disgust he feels when women misguidedly force sexuality down your throat in the belief that it is expected of them ... by the man.
he had replied to one girl in a mildly flirtatious way, as very clever men can do, and she returned a rapid fire volley of smut and innuendo that was just embarrassing to read. another girl told him she was masturbating over his photo ... one even looked up his phone number and phoned to offer to meet him for sex.
males dream come true ? ... not bloody likely !.
by clays' way of thinking, anybody with so little regard for themselves and such a misguided idea of "what men want" is to be avoided like the plague ... which is exactly what he is doing.
last time we spoke, clay had discontinued his dating agency membership. i don't blame him.
his desire to know at least the surname of someone before he has sex with has made him a dinosaur in the instant-gratification world of internet dating.
but a dinosaur that's now content to be one ... at least for as long as it takes him to work up the nerve to ask a "real" girl out ... for something much smaller than an orgy ...
... how about a little kiss, first ?
. I am 29 yrs old, funny, clever, interesting, and cute. I am also shy.
. I think eharmony.com asks you like 500 questions and then matches you with someone that answers similar to you. I still prefer the old fashioned way of asking a girl out, it's much more of a rush. Although I'd be open to meeting someone from one of those dating websites if they had a lot in common with me.
