Meeting, Mating, and Cheating
"Time Magazine", Feb 2, 2004 - ""Meeting, Mating and Cheating" gives an insightful portrait of cyberdating." "Meeting, Mating, and Cheating: Sex, Love, and the New World of Online Dating" - Andrea Orr Reuters. "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. Now, Andrea Orr uncovers the real Internet dating revolution, in all its many forms. This book reveals Internet dating at its most intimate, following people who are struggling to find soul mates in a sea of singles. It takes you behind the scenes of the world's largest subscription dating service, illuminating the business of Internet dating.It exposes the hidden underside of Internet dating: the lying and "general weirdness" that are still just a click away, and the massive use of the Web to facilitate cheating. It tours the world, showing how Internet dating is connecting people from Belfast to Beijing. Finally, it previews the future of online dating - the wireless dating services and next-generation technologies that may transform human meeting and mating yet again. This book focuses on: how the Web transformed dating; a fringe phenomenon becomes mainstream; and Internet dating goes global. It also focuses on : the great online mating tour - from Iran to Hong Kong, L.A. to Salt Lake City; I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional Weirdness online; underground at the "Love Bunker" Life at Match.com, the world's No. 1 Internet dating service; Infidelity, Inc; the new business of cheating; beyond the laptop - the next dating revolutions Wireless dating, high-tech psychological profiling and beyond; the new romance revolution - inside the worldwide phenomenon of online dating.""Meeting, Mating, and Cheating" carefully chronicles the fascinating history of online dating services, and exposes the ethics, economics, and efficacy of matchmaking for every conceivable taste. Andrea Orr personalizes the quest for a partner with compelling individual narratives." - Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D., ABPP, author of "Just Friends: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity", and "Heal the Trauma of Betrayal". ""Meeting, Mating, and Cheating" provides insight into a facet of the Internet phenomenon that is both fascinating and alarming. Orr's discussion of the Internet dating industry, and wide-ranging examples of people who are using new technologies in the most intimate area of their lives, reveals important aspects of technology-mediated relationships. In-depth exploration of this phenomenon in other