According to a study by the University of Texas School of Public Health and recently reported by the Houston Chronicle, women are hornier than ever before. Ok the report didn’t say it exactly like that but it’s the ultimate point they make.
The women surveyed said they went to great lengths to screen online acquaintances before meeting them. They felt a “virtual intimacy” between them before meeting in person. In a shocking revelation, nearly a third reported having sex on the first date and three-quarters of those said they did not use condoms. What WERE they thinking?
The study’s author, Paige Padgett, said,”They may not think of it as being risky sex. They don’t see it as a one-night stand, even though it might turn out that way, because they really feel they have a relationship with this man.”
Padgett, a research associate who specializes in epidemiology and sex research, surveyed 740 women who posted personal ads on seven dating Web sites. Some were looking for love, others only for sex, she said.
The survey began in July 2002 and lasted for five months. 568 of the women met face-to-face with at least one man with whom their first contact was online. After taking precautions to ensure their safety during the first in-person encounter, 30 percent of the women reported having sex during that date, and 77 percent of those did not use condoms, Padgett reported.
Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the apparent contradiction doesn’t surprise him. People behave differently in the heat of the moment from when they plan ahead, he said.
“When somebody’s sitting by their laptop at home and writing these sterile e-mails to each other, there’s no sense of emotionality,” he said. “But when they meet and they get aroused, life changes.”
I disagree with Dan Ariely completely! As one who’s watched countless thousands of people engage in cybersex chat on a regular basis, these are NOT sterile e-mails between two people. They are feeling real emotions that a person cannot understand unless they’ve experienced it.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of women use a condom when have sex for the first time with a new partner. So is it just that the women meeting through the net believe that the men have been celibate (and honest!) for ages before they got together?
According to a survey by ABC News in 2004, 17 percent of women report having had sex on a first date, compared with 42 percent of men. Experts say women tend to underestimate those figures and men tend to overestimate.
Online dating, Padgett said, enables women to ignore men who don’t make them feel safe or fit their standards. Couples who meet online also can negotiate terms, such as condom use, or exchange sexual history that may be uncomfortable to discuss in person, Padgett said.
“You can disclose all this personal information without having the fear of rejection with the person right in front of you.”
For that reason, she said, intimacy may be accelerated in relationships that begin online. By the time two people meet face-to-face, they may feel as though they’ve been seeing each other for a while.
Of the women who answered the survey, most used various techniques to screen suitors before the first date. Some hired agencies to run background checks, while others conducted their own research online. Some watched for inconsistencies in men’s stories, asked for a photo or talked on the phone to judge character. Others simply relied on gut feelings. Most all the women in the survey said they always met a man for the first time in a public place.
I assume some of these blogs are translated by a program and not initially written into Englisy by the authors. I prefer to think that a program created most of these. It’s like the funny signs in English that you see around the world. They do their best but leave you laughing. 
