ATTENTION: CYBERSEX
IN SUBURBIA
Media Contact:
Jennifer Klein
President
Dateable.com
Phone: (215) 540-5831
E-Mail: jennifer@dateable.com
SEX, THE INTERNET AND
AMERICAN SUBURBIA:
A RECENT MORALITY SURVEY
FROM DATEABLE.COM
-- Dateable.com Launches
CyberCheating Forum --
"Cheating online is Adultery."
Headline from La Stampa,
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
Philadelphia, PA – June 20,
2000 – 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.
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According to the survey, conducted
by Dateable.com in the first half of 2000, here is what IS OK:
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79.7% of their viewers stated
that it IS OK to reply to an instant message or ICQ.
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The same percent of viewers
even went as far as to say it IS OK to have an online IM or ICQ conversation
with a member of the opposite sex whom they don’t even know.
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An astonishing 75.2% of their
visitors stated that it IS OK for their significant other to visit an adult
site.
And here’s what’s NOT OK:
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Photo exchange. 54% of Dateable.com’s
visitors say it is NOT OK to exchange photos with a person of the opposite
sex whom they don’t know.
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77.4% visitors polled that it
is NOT OK for their significant other to participate in an adult one-on-one
online video conversation with a member of the opposite sex whom they don’t
know.
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80.6% of Dateable.com’s visitors
feel that it is NOT OK for their significant other to give his or her phone
number to a member of the opposite sex whom they do not know, but met online.
Nobody knows the true number
of extra-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.
Please contact Dateable.com at (215) 540-5831 to set up an interview with Jennifer Klein at
your earliest convenience. Jennifer is a regular contributor to top media
programs and has appeared on ABC television, eyada.com, and salon.com.
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