Online Affairs Are The Flavor Of The Season
January 14th, 2010 by The Babe
Remember the time when you had to leave home and hit the bars and clubs to find someone with whom to have a affair. Whether it was a one night stand, a little diversion from your marriage or an attempt to find that special someone, you were required to “make nice” and strut your charms physically.
All that is gone. Now you never have to leave the comfort of your home and online affairs are the ‘flavor of the season’ when it comes to infidelity and extramarital relationships. A recent statistic shows that over 70 million people are actively engaging in online relationships, taking full advantage of the borderless freedom of finding a lover, a date, a spouse in a virtual world.
In a online affair, you can present yourself as you’d rather be, not the way you actually are. You don’t use your real name and you can shave years off your age; you can promote yourself in your job; you can describe interests you only dream about; above all, you can make yourself more interesting.
Somebody pays attention to you. You get to establish an intimacy with someone, by presenting yourself as you probably fantasize yourself to be.
And the pay off? So what makes an affair with an online lover more attractive than a conventional affair?
Somebody pays attention to you. You get to establish an intimacy with someone, by presenting yourself as you probably fantasize yourself to be.
The affair can be had without the risk of running into family members, nosy neighbours, or inquisitive friends. But the real difference today is the convenience, speed and ease with which these affairs can develop. You can spend hours chatting on the net, exchanging sexually explicit mails, and indulging in virtual sex using your webcam. Sometimes this virtual affair can last for months, even years without actually meeting your online lover without having physically met your online lover. Although in the early stages, there’s may be no sex involved, most affairs eventually lead to sexual infidelity through cyber sex or real physical contact.
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Internet infidelity: are we all at it?
March 25th, 2007 by The BabeA survey of 15,000 US internet users in 2004 revealed that 32% of women, and 13% of men believed the web encouraged adultery.
Another UK study, published by the BBC, showed that 30% of internet users who have online lovers admit to having had sex with their virtual partners in the flesh.
Sexual equality – The same BBC study revealed that younger people are more likely candidates for webultery, and women are as likely as men to be unfaithful.
Slipping through the net – It also revealed that 70% of women and 54% of men remained in the dark about their spouses extramarital activity.
Porn ratings – In the US, meeting a new lover online and an obsessive interest in pornography are the top problems cited in internet-related divorce cases.
Too much chat – Other reasons for the breakdown of marriages, a panel of Chicago lawyers say, include excessive use of the net and chat rooms.
Email evidence – Staying in the US, 22% of men, and 14% of women have strayed at least once during their marriages. Peoples’ online activities are also being used against them in divorce cases. Almost 80% of US attorneys said that incriminatory emails had been part of divorce proceedings.