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Adult Dating Websites – An Historically Significant Event Maybe?

By Jayde Johanssen

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Adult dating sites are ridiculously popular these days! I visited one recently and it boasted over 34 million members. How does that happen? I’ve never seen such numbers at normal dating sites. Why are they so popular? These numbers make adult dating sites look mainstream, while normal dating site with their relatively paltry numbers look positively “niche”.

The behaviors encouraged at adult dating sites is not typical of the behaviors in society. Its not mainstream. In the “offline world”, dating typically starts from a low contact basis and only progresses in intimacy as you learn more about your dating partner. So being out of the ordinary begs the question – why are the so popular?

Obviously the internet gives us an element on anonymity. Does this anonymity though, change us? Does it give us the courage to be more honest about what we want and what we ask for. Its possible I guess. The pain of rejection at such a website barely exists. Rejection in the form of a nasty email or no email, is much easier to take than rejection in the form of a slapped cheek or thrown drink.

But the question that sits in my mind is whether this new honesty will spill over from these websites and change society itself? Will people start being more honest about their wishes in the “Adult Dating” sense, upon meeting people in society as well as online? Or will that always be too difficult without the cover of an internet profile?

Could this have bad consequences too. For example, could a shift to directness start a break down of social niceties, manners and flirting?

Or could it change things in the opposite direction? Will the fear of rejection in public become more acute, for its absence on the internet? If so, will the next generation of daters be more averse to socializing and meeting people outside websites?

These are questions I ponder, but have no answer for. Only time will tell. So I’m just going to have fun dating in the meantime, there are so many new people to meet at this site I just joined.

Jayde Johanssen, bemused by the popularity of adult dating sites, ponders if the phenomena will change our way of life. This article, Adult Dating Websites – An Historically Significant Event Maybe? is released under a creative commons attribution license.

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Johanssen, Jayde "Adult Dating Websites – An Historically Significant Event Maybe?." Adult Dating Websites – An Historically Significant Event Maybe?. 26 Aug. 2009. uberarticles.com. 7 Apr 2012 <http://uberarticles.com/dating/online/adult-dating-sites-why-are-they-so-popular/>.

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Johanssen, J (2009, August 26). Adult Dating Websites – An Historically Significant Event Maybe?. Retrieved April 7, 2012, from http://uberarticles.com/dating/online/adult-dating-sites-why-are-they-so-popular/

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