The stigma of online dating

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Registered: 09-03-2003
The stigma of online dating
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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 4:00pm
This has probably been addressed numerous times before, but just curious... How do you all deal with the stigma of online dating? When you tell people you have a date and they ask how you met, do you lie or tell the truth?

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Registered: 12-10-2004
Tue, 04-12-2005 - 2:33am

>>However, many people think meeting a "stranger" could be dangerous.<<

I agree, and it's silly. What do they think, that weirdoes and murderers and rapists and child molesters didn't exist before the Internet?

It was just "as dangerous" meeting someone in a bar and going home with them, yet during the sexual revolution people did that all the time.

I'm like you; I'm a missionary for OLD. I tell people that's where I met my present gf, my former gf, and I don't much care if they have a problem with it.

The more that people see that reasonably normal, regular folks do OLD, the less "stigma" OLD will have attached to it.

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