Is Virtual Sex Cheating?
Being a technophobe, virtual sex has never been my thing. So you can imagine my surprise while at a sex tradeshow, there was a booth selling software for animating virtual characters into realistic sex positions.
I had no idea that virtual sex had become so popular. It led me to believe the stigma of online sex has shifted to being somewhat acceptable for the average person.
What is virtual sex you ask? It is when two or more people exchange digital information (including text messages, still pictures, video, audio, or some combination) with the intention of sexual arousal. Some would consider looking at pornography or playing a sexually explicit computer game to be a form of virtual sex.
Not knowing and curious, I took a small poll and asked people what they thought about virtual sex. It was a unanimous opinion: virtual sex was a form of cheating.
They also assumed there was something wrong or missing in a relationship in order for an individual to turn to sex on the internet. Or, if single, the individual was lonely and didn’t have the social skills to meet people in person.
Of course, these two stereotypes are true. However, it never occurred to any of them that internet sex could be a healthy sexual outlet for someone in a stable, happy relationship.
Perhaps it’s because we can only envision faceless predators that are eager and waiting to take advantage of us if we go into a chat room. Or feel the internet is so addictive that people can easily succumb to a world of non reality. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hooked on Cyber Sex
As I write this I have only been online three months. It has been a steep learning curve indeed. I don’t know near enough about computers, the internet, and cyber sex. But I want to know more and have learned how to know more about all these things.
I caved in to the cyber sex invitation about ten weeks ago, fascinated as much by the marketing as the product. Marketers just kept knocking on my door and continue to do so nearly every day. Persistence pays. In the past ten weeks I posted personal profiles on five dating and hook – up websites. None had my photo until last week, when a friend Emailed me a dozen she had taken a while back.
The first site I posted on drew three responses to my profile within two days. A good sign. Two more the next three days. I could not tell much from the posted photos but the profiles were intriguing and I wanted to talk to each of the five women. But to do so, I had to pay. I scraped up the money for a six month subscription, mailed it off to headquarters and the company claims they never received it. I pulled my profile and never went back. Money down the drain. But I was not ready to quit.
Another website on which I posted a profile yielded over twenty responses in just three weeks. But unpaid members on this site can’t even view the profiles of those who contact them, let alone respond. So my quest became to find which service offered the most contact benefits to non paying members. One allowed the viewing of all member profiles but only pre written flirt contacts. No personal messages without paid upgrade.
Another allowed very limited profile views and limited contact, including on site E mails in a few conditions. It took a few weeks just to become vaguely familiar with Adult Friend Finders’ many features, rules and conditions but I am now quite passionate about this site. It offers tons of interactivity to its unpaid or standard members. This sets it apart from the others in its marketing strategy and member benefits. Read the rest of this entry »
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Educational Problem Solving
Abstract
This article introduces the educational solutions module of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site, describing competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target markets, product offerings, and usability features. It concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information superhighway.
Introduction
The aim of this article is to introduce to the world the educational solutions module of the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The article is addressed to those readers who may have an educational problem bogging them and who may therefore be looking for a way out of their predicament. The reader may be a parent, child, or student.
It is a common fact of life that we all have problems and that we are often frustrated or we tend to lash out because of our inability to find accessible and reliable information about our problems. This specialist site fills this need – as our pragmatic friend for solving our educational problems.
To be of the greatest use to people a problem solving site must combine pragmatic discussions of their personal or professional problem with merchant products that provide more detailed information. Typically, the web site will provide free information in the form of news, articles, and advice, which direct the visitor on what to do to solve her problems. Complementing this, the web site will also provide merchant products which discuss in detail how the visitor can go about resolving her problem. This means that the most effective, visitor-oriented problem-solving site will be an information-packed commercial site – and so is the world’s most recent personal and professional problem solving site and its specialist sites. Read the rest of this entry »
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