Sex on the Internet and How to Find It

There is sex on the Internet. I know, I know, it was as big a shock to me as it probably is to you, but we'll all have to face the naked truth eventually: there is sex on the Internet. There's the passive sex, where you basically watch pictures or clips of people (please, tell me you want to see people) doing all kinds of weird things to each other, and then there's the active sex, where you basically log on to a huge database of people who apparently all are looking for the exact same thing: getting nasty. Now I consider myself as a healthy man with a normal sexual appetite, so I decided (all in the name of science of research, of course) to subscribe to one of these so-called dating sites and see what would happen. Are you curious to find out what happened? By all means, do continue reading.....

The site I used for this project made it very clear what their purpose is: get people that want to have sex together. No dating, no dinners first, just sexual encounters with strangers. No strings attached casual sex, basically the way life should be according to my guidebooks. After subscribing and paying the yearly fee (which was a small price to pay considering the enormous amount of people who'll want to read my story and by doing so contribute to the 'Get Jan filthy rich'- foundation) I braced myself for whatever it was I was going to find on there and put all the drinks and food I'd need for an all-nighter right next to me so I wouldn't loose any precious time on something as casual as making tea.

First things first: browse through all the possible candidates and then make a shortlist of all the women who'd be lucky enough to receive a mail from me that I'd like to meet them. Their waiting days were over, they could stop their search, Belgium had arrived. Or so I thought it would work. Reality was definitely not as glamorous as expected, in more ways than one. Two things really struck me when going through all their profiles: firstly, how easy people find it to put pictures of themselves in almost any thinkable position, naked or scarcely dressed, on public sites for the whole world to see. But a lot worse, how horrible their writing skills are. I don't expect Shakespearian essays on there, but everybody should be able to write one sentence, no?

I wasn't going to let that stop me and fought my way through all the rubbish and eventually did find a few profiles of women I wouldn't mind meeting. That's how far my expectations had dropped by now. From 'I'm gonna find tons of casual partners' to 'There's got to be one that could be worth meeting'. Little by little, it started to dawn on me: for every woman there were about a thousand guys struggling for their attention, trying their best to be noticed and be different. I don't mind a little struggle, but when the odds are against you at this kind of proportion, it's time to admit defeat. Unfortunately, that just wasn't an option whatsoever. So here we are, one month later, and I've contacted about 50 women, got 5 replies, and am talking to 2. On a non-sexual base. But that's ok. They're pretty cool. And if I make 2 new friends every month, who am I to complain.....

P.S. One of the results of my chat with these women is that we got to talk about a dating site for intelligent people. And what do you know, it already exists. They make you take an intelligence test before you can join. I absolutely love the sheer arrogance of that. Then again, after 2 weeks, I haven't seen anybody else on-line on their site.....

For a full report on what I found on those sites, please be patient. There's plenty of material there for quite a few articles more.....