Meeting, Mating, and Cheating: Sex, Love, and the New World of Online Dating
Posted: October 25th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Online Dating & Dates | Tags: Cheating, Dating, love, Mating, Meeting, online, World | 5 Comments »
Product Description
“This book is a thoroughly engaging examination of our struggle for sex and romance in the age of technology and computer dating. Andrea Orr explores and reveals the realities of the way we live and love in today’s world.” –Jane Juska, author of A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance Virtually overnight, online dating has gone from a fringe phenomenon to a popular and mainstream way to meet, worldwide. This extraordinary social and business revolution is touching millions of lives–but until now, it’s gone largely unreported. Andrea Orr tells the unique story of how online dating evolved from a hideout for fetishists to a mainstream way to meet–and a multi-million-dollar global indus… More >>
Meeting, Mating, and Cheating: Sex, Love, and the New World of Online Dating
Meeting, Mating and Cheating provides an honest and thought-provoking look at the world of online dating. By following her subjects over the course of a year, Orr gives her readers a sense of all the different people who opt for online dating — the young and the old, gay and straight, the urban and the rural dwellers, those seeking spouses and others just looking for friendship. The personal stories were sometimes poignant and sometimes just plain funny. I will always remember the single mother of three who went on line in search of the whole package — “sex, companionship and the handy guy around the house.”
The book is well-researched and the prose is lively and accessible. Ms. Orr weaves the personal stories together with information about the business of online dating to create a book that is valuable for online daters as well as investors and others who follow business trends. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
A great read! Orr gives an overview of the people out there doing it, and the range of services offered, but more than that, she weaves in so many funny personal stories of the ups and downs of the process that I feel like I’m watching an episode of Sex and the City. The end result is that this book is entirely useful for anyone considering online dating, but you could also be happily married and enjoy reading it. It’s a hoot!
Rating: 5 / 5
A pretty-much content-free collection of anecdotes: this person met a few total creepazoids online, this other person met the love of her life, this third person finds online dating to be a handy way to cheat on his wife, and this little piggy went to market. Is there a point? Are there any insights? Is there any real information to be found? Not that I could see.
Rating: 1 / 5
A friend who has been prodding me to try online dating for over a year now gave this book to me as a way to show that everyone is doing it. She has been telling me this over and over again but I never could manage to take the leap. Then I read this book and I learned that that most singles today, and especially professional urban singles, are all socializing online. I had been missing out!
This book has so many cute and funny stories of people who met online. I had only read three chapters when I put the book down, sat down at my computer, and signed up for Match.com. I’ve met a great guy and we have our third date this week! Orr’s book is insightful and entertaining and also gives you a lot of good ideas about how to present yourself online and how to wade through all the responses you receive.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t think I could give it a more enthusiastic recommendation. I just read here that another reviewer compared it to an episode of Sex and The City, and that is very true. Like the TV show this book, has many hilarious and very moving stories of the ups and downs of the dating game that anyone can relate to. Unlike Sex and the City, it’s not all about spoiled New York City girls. There are stories of people from the heartland looking for love, middle aged small town people who have been divorced three times before finding true love online, lonely grandmothers, even people in China. The book also manages to impart some useful advice about writing your online dating profile, and about which sites you might want to consider joining.
Rating: 5 / 5