Online Internet/Dating Service

Virtual dating

Virtual dating combines online dating with online gaming. Virtual dating involves the use of avatars for people to interact in a virtual venue that resembles a real life dating environment. For example, individuals can meet and chat in a romantic virtual cafe in Paris or on a Caribbean resort. They can explore together, play games and take relationship quizzes to get a better, deeper understanding of each other. While online dating sites allows members to search on attributes such as education and income, virtual dating allows users to explore compatibility, sense of humor and rapport. Virtual dating sites include Weopia and Omnidate.
According to Scientific American, virtual dating is "the next step in online dating" (Feb/March 2007, p. 35).^[11]
A Time Magazine article entitled "Internet Dating 2.0" was published on January 19, 2007 citing current and upcoming technologies and explains how people can now connect in a virtual dating environment. Time describes how websites are allowing people to meet for an avatar based, graphically enabled virtual date without leaving their homes.^[12]
Researchers at MIT and Harvard have found that "people who had had a chance to interact with each other (by computer only) on a virtual tour of a museum subsequently had more successful face-to-face meetings than people who had viewed only profiles."^[11]
These three dimensional experience has reported more registrations from women than men. One explanation for this phenomenon is that virtual dating allows women to have complete control over who they select and how they interact. Virtual dating also eliminates large amounts of emails in women's inboxes and allows women to enjoy a friendly dating option.^[13]

Video dating

Video dating is a form of virtual dating that allows users to use live dating services with actual reality that stimulates a real dating experience. Sites offering video dating allow 3-5 minute webcam interviews with online matches.^[14]

Online dating assistants

Not a long time ago, various websites were available on the Internet with access to valuable tips on how to find a partner, and especially focused on how to find women. Dating Internet services have expanded and are now offering many more services to make it easier for people to find a partner.
Last June, 2010, The Washington Post published an article on a new service Internet dating companies are offering: online dating assistants. Dating companies offer the services of ghostwriters to help busy people find dates through Internet.
The services start by helping customers build their profile, a practice already offered by several online dating sites. However, the service continues with picking out potential matches, the writer then sends introductory e-mails to the possible matches and continues messaging back and forth until they can confirm the date. Although the service was used at first mainly by men, this has changed with more ladies using this service as well.^[15]
Customers who have used this service claim they work long hours and do not have the time to write back and forth, which is also a very repetitive process, until finding a date. Therefore, they prefer to outsource that service.
This kind of service has been considered as misrepresentation and, thus ethically questionable, by those against it.^[16]

 Social networking

The role of social networking services in online dating has been explored in a book dedicated to the subject.^[17] The findings of the study reveal that the online dating services driven by subscriptions offer the least amount of social networking opportunities, as they often only utilize the personal homepage genre of online community, which only makes them effective for the bonding and encoding stage of the relationship. The dating services modeled on the free-at-the-point-of-use model scored much higher as many of them utilized the Circle of Friends social networking method and a wider number of online community genres. The highest scoring dating service was Facebook, which uses the personal homepage genre, the message board genre, the weblog and directory genre, as well as utilizing the Circle of Friends. The second highest scoring, Second Life utilizes virtual worlds, message boards, chat groups and profile pages to allow people to contact in a three-dimensional environment.

 Problems

There can be a variety of problems when utilizing online dating sites.

• Some sites expect members to subscribe "blind," meaning that users have little or no ability to search or preview the available profiles before they pay the subscription fee. eHarmony is one example of this kind of site.

• A majority of dating sites state profiles as online for months or even years since the last time the person has logged in, thereby making it seem as though there are more available members than there actually are.

• For paying members, it is often unclear whether a potential contact has a full subscription and whether he or she will be able to reply. Some sites prevent a potential contact from even reading a paying member's messages unless the contact has also paid to subscribe. There are still, however, a few established free dating sites that allow non-paid-up users to reply to messages.

• Some sites require that both the sender and recipient of messages be subscribers before any off-site communication or contact can be arranged, and will filter messages to remove email addresses, telephone numbers, web addresses and surnames. Subscribers who attempt to circumvent this restriction may lose their membership and be removed from the site.

• Some profiles may not represent actual daters, but are "bait profiles" that have been placed there by the site owners to attract new paying members. Both Yahoo Personals and Match.com have received several complaints about this tactic. Some users spam sites with "fake" profiles that are in reality advertisements to other services, such as prostitution, multi-level marketing, or other personals websites.

• Even when members' profiles are "real", there is still an inherent lack of trust with other members. Married people seeking affairs will often pose as singles. In addition, many members misrepresent themselves by telling flattering 'white lies' about their height, weight and age, or by using old and misleading photos. Members can, of course, ask for an up-to-date photograph before arranging a meeting, but disappointments are common. Matrimonials Sites are a variant of online dating sites, and these are geared towards meeting people for the purpose of getting married. Gross misrepresentation is less likely on these sites than on 'casual dating' sites. Casual dating sites are often geared more towards short term (potentially sexual) relationships.

• Online predators find online dating sites especially attractive, because such sites give them an unending supply of new targets of opportunity for Internet fraud. A recent study, led by Dr. Paige Padgett from the University of Texas Health Science Center, found that there was a false degree of safety assumed by women looking for love on the internet, exposing them to stalking, fraud, and sexual violence.^[18] Some online dating sites conduct background checks on their members in an attempt to avoid problems of this nature.

• Most members are enticed to join dating websites with free or low-priced "trial" memberships advertised on many other websites. On sites which require credit card information to join at all, these trial memberships may automatically become full memberships at the end of the trial period and charge the full monthly fee, without any additional action from the member, regardless of whether the member has actually used the services or not.

• Some members have expressed complaints about the billing practices of certain dating sites. In some cases, trial memberships that were canceled within the trial period were automatically re-billed even after canceling. To avoid these potential problems, some users have advised using a virtual credit card number which is offered by several credit card companies.

• On any given dating site, the sex ratio is commonly unbalanced. A website may have 2 women for every man, but they may be in the 35+ range, while the men are generally under 35. Unfortunately, little is known about the sex ratio controlled for age. eHarmony's membership is about 58% female and 42% male^{[citation needed]}, whereas the ratio at Match.com is about the reverse of that. When you get into the specialty niche websites where the primary demographic is male, you typically get a very unbalanced ratio of male to female or female to male.^[19] Niche sites cater to people with special interests, such as sports fans, racing and automotive fans, medical or other professionals, people with political or religious preferences (e.g. Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.), people with medical conditions (e.g. HIV+, obese), or those living in rural farm communities.

• There is some evidence that there may be a difference on how women online rate male attractiveness as opposed to how men rate female attractiveness. The distribution of ratings given by men of female attractiveness appears to look like a standard bell curve (normal distribution), while ratings of men given by women is highly skewed with 80% of the men rated as below average.^[20] This shows women are genuinely more picky than men when it comes to online dating. It could also potentially arise from women assessing other profile characteristics besides appearance, like their occupation for example.

• Disreputable sites such as Quechup may harvest users' personal information and contacts for use in e-mail spam.^[21]

• Consolidation within the online dating industry has led to different newspapers and magazines now advertising the same website data base under different names. In the UK, for example, Time Out ('London Dating'), The Times ('Encounters'), The Daily Telegraph ('Kindred Spirits'), all offer differently named portals to the same service—meaning that a person who subscribes through more than one publication has unwittingly paid more than once for access to just one site.

 Discrimination

Gay rights groups have complained that certain websites that restrict their dating services to heterosexual couples are discriminating against homosexuals. This has taken place mostly among Christian dating sites, but major dating sites are generally heterosexual oriented. In addition, many sites require members to specify what sex they are looking for without having the option "both", which complicates things for bisexuals.
eHarmony was sued in 2007 by a lesbian claiming that, "Such outright discrimination is hurtful and disappointing for a business open to the public in this day and age".^[22]
Many sites require members specify themselves as "male" or "female", complicating matters for transgender individuals.
There are sites that have been created due to this discrimination and to accommodate these types of individuals. International and non-American dating sites are often much more liberal, openly catering to all orientations, including transgendered and cross-dressing individuals.

Art of Sexual Positions (Part I)

Art of Sexual Positions 

Missionary Position. It is said that when the WASP missionaries arrived in continental America, they saw doggy position practiced by the natives like animals, and proceeded to proselytize them the gospel of the God-pleasing position and Christianity. This is, however, most likely a urban myth.

According to Wikipedia: Missionary position, the term was started by the sexologist Alfred Kinsey in his Kinsey Reports.

Cowgirl Position. Cowboys, ride horses; by sexual transgression of the word, cowgirl is created to denote females who hold the job of cowboys, even though it doesn't exactly exist. It is similar to the situation where we have wide spread of female warriors or femme fatale or courageous heroine in tales throughout history, invariably all beautiful. Now, since in this position the woman rides like riding a horse, thus it's called cowgirl position.

Another illustration of the cowgirl position. In this image, we see that the woman assumed a position that facilitates up-and-down movement, while the man helps in the up movement cycle.

A variant of the cowgirl position. The cowgirl bends forward so that her breasts touch her man, and they can exchange saliva.

Woman on top position is sometimes known as Amazon position. The “Amazon” here refers to the Amazons of Greek mythology, comprising female warriors and females only and all warriors. By imagination, Amazons being beautiful, strong, independent, and controlling as opposed to being controlled, thus woman-on-top is aka Amazon position. When a woman is on top, she has control of the situation. In general, men do not wish women to be on top, nor women. For copulation, it may be different.
According to zoologist Desmond Morris in his Intimate Behavior, the woman-on-top is the origin of Belly dancing.

Xah Recommends:
She'll like it.

Reverse cowgirl.

The legs-up position.

Art of Sexual Positions (Part II)

Art of Sexual Positions

The doggy position.

The doggy position is one of the most basic position. It is a position where quadrupedal animals copulate. Bipedal animals such as men, can simulate quadrupeds just as quadrupeds can simulate bipeds by standing on their hindlegs. The name doggy-position came from that of dogs, the most common quadruped in contact with men in modern times.

Leap-frog position. A common variant of doggy-style. If the woman lay prostrate on the surface, as in this illustration, it's known as leapfrog position, because it is reminiscent of the children's game Leapfrog.

The Kneeling sex position, is a variant of doggy style where the woman stands on twos, instead of all-fours.

Stand'n'carry, or, reverse-piggy-back position.

A variant of the lotus sex position.

Have you seen a Buddha sitting on a lotus? You know, sits on the butt with legs in a intertwined crossing such that the right foot rests on the left thigh and the left foot rests on the right thigh, with soles facing up. Such a sitting position is called the lotus position. It is also one of the most basic posture of yoga, and does take some flexibility and getting used to.
If a man assumes a lotus posture and a woman sits on the penis of the man, then that's the lotus sex position. That'd be the ultimate zen of copulation. In the illustration above, the boy kneel instead, which decreases penis exposure and does not provide a flat surface for the woman to sit on.

Lap-sitting position. This term, is reminiscent of lap-dancing. That is to say, girls astride on men's lap and dance. In this practice, it is not so much of a performance of dancing, but intimacy as a service.

Art of Sexual Positions (Part III)

Art of Sexual Positions

Two women doing the 69 sex position. Note the symmetry in the shape of 69. This position is inevitably assumed when the man's tongue is on the woman's vulva and the woman's mouth is enclosing the man's penis.

A unique property of 69 is simultaneous mutual oral sex.

Spoon sex position. This position is called spoon because the position is visually analogous to stacked spoons. There is a certain asymmetry here, because men can spoon women, but women can't really spoon man. Spooning is also good if the penis is going into the female's ass hole.

This is so-called the butterfly position. The key here, is that the woman lies face up on a bed or couch, with her ass on the edge, and the man stands or kneels on the floor and penetrates her. Their torsos forms a right angle. The male, may lift the girl's hindquarters freely, and the girl may spread her legs wide apart, or wrap around the guy, or straighten up and prop on the guy's shoulders. This position is called butterfly presumedly because when the girl's legs are wide apart, and when the pumping is active, her legs simulate the movements of the wings of a butterfly.

Threesome, or, ménage à trois. Threesomes are often coded by the sexes involved. In this case, Male/male/female or MMF. In a MMF situation, the women can be penerated in the mouth and in the vagina at the same time, or, in her ass and in her pussy.

Mathematically, there are 3 holes and 2 pegs. The 2 pegs can fill any two holes simultaneously. Both pegs jamming into any single hole, may it be mouth, vagina, or rectum, are also seen in pornography.

Male/female/female threesome, performing a oral-genital daisy-chain. As far as two sexes are involved, MFF form of threesome is far more common than MMF.

Art of Sexual Positions (Part IV)

Art of Sexual Positions

Tribadism. Tribadism means pussy rubbing pussy.

Masturbation.

Autocunnilingus. Note the self-intersecting vase on the shelf. That is a mathematical surface called klein bottle. It is a surface with just one single side.

Signs of the Zodiac

To find out all about the Astrology Signs, click on the link below to be redirected to the website. Do you have Mars in Gemini? Click on Gemini and you will find an interpretation of this position. Is your Mercury in Cancer? Click on Cancer to read more. Each sign page includes interpretation for the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Ascendant in that sign.

Aries the Ram	Taurus the Bull
Gemini the Twins	Cancer the Crab
Leo the Lion	Virgo the Virgin
Libra the Scales	Scorpio the Scorpion
Sagittarius the Archer	Capricorn the Goat
Aquarius the Water Bearer http://www.cafeastrology.com/articles/signsofthezodiac.html	Pisces the Fish

Love Sign Compatibility

Much has been said about the compatibility of Sun Signs. Does Taurus get along with Aries? What's the best sign for Sagittarius? ... and so forth.
For example, although Aries and Leo are supposed to get along, in reality they might butt heads, while the theoretically incompatible Libra and Cancer might happily stay together forever. This is because Sun Sign Compatibility takes into account only one of hundreds of compatibility factors. For a more complete understanding of relationships, see our article Synastry.
When the relationship in question is a love relationship, one factor that should be considered is the comparison of Venus signs. Although similar to Sun Sign compatibility, Venus Sign compatibility hones in on the individuals' love nature, and can therefore be exceptionally illuminating. Use these compatibility texts to compare Venus signs or Sun signs.