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Sex, The Internet and American Suburbia
"Cheating
Online is Adultery."
Headline from La Stamp, a popular
Italian newspaper.
"My wife doesn’t care if I have relationships
(even sexual) on the Internet. It’s like it’s
not real ...I can get away with it. But, I’m
sure she’d get upset if we were to meet for
a drink or something."
--
Anonymous Dateable.com
Survey Respondent
41-year
old married male from Oklahoma City
A
recent survey by Dateable.com,
one of the first Internet romance communities, has
revealed the results from a four-month survey of
Internet sex and morality. The bottom line:
You can talk, but you can’t look.
Dateable.com
picked a good time to release these results. The
Italian public is having the same debate this week.
A recent poll of Italians, where 97% of the population
is Roman Catholic, said that 40% of Italian women
interviewed said they feared that "their
husbands might find a woman more fascinating than
them while surfing the Web."
How
do Americans compare?
When
Dateable.com visitors were asked where they would
draw the line when their significant other commits
cyber-contact with a member of the opposite sex,
their responses were a little surprising.
According
to the survey, conducted by Dateable.com
in the first half of 2000, here is what IS
OK:
And
here’s what’s NOT OK:
Nobody
knows the true number of marital affairs occurring
online, but Elizabeth Field, founder of Infidelitybusters.com,
said she knows increasing numbers of people who
have been burned by this kind of cheating. "To
me, it's a sign of the times ... I don't agree with
(cyber-cheating) at all," said Field.
Want
to learn more about the survey? Go to www.dateable.com
to participate in the sex and morality survey and
read the results.
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Dateable.com
LLC 2000
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