PonyGroom
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ORIGINAL: pinksugarsub Just curious as to P/pl's theories about this. They are probably mostly married Men, but there may be other equally valid theories. There are a LOT of married men. There are also a lot with cold feet. There are those who are living in a fantasy world online - and cannot do anything with it offline for one or a hundred reasons. These three theories account for almost all of what I have seen, as far as I can tell. I think the rest is easier - mechanical breakdowns, work schedules, family crisis, health problems, LIFE. Sometimes someone will not realize until they actually plan to meet that the driving is going to take hours and cost more than they can afford. They realize they have been kidding themselves and get embarrassed. Also, I have had contacts over the years with underage folks who confess after the tenth conversation and of course we never meet. But all those taken together are smaller segment than any of the Big Three. It is very difficult to prove any of this, right? I used to volunteer as a "greeter" for a kink group years ago. While doing that I met more than 100 people who learned of our group online and met me, or someone from our group, as their first offline contact. I had a lot of email conversations and chat sessions without ever meeting the person on the other end. I know there are married men because I talk frankly with them and they tell me straight up they are married and they have to be "discreet". I know some get cold feet because I have seen it happen that they warm up on the third, fifth, tenth attempt. They feel pretty sheepish about the cold feet thing and wish it were not so. They move on. It isn't hard to find people with a robust fantasy life - know anyone who spends almost all their spare time on Everquest or Second Life - or this board? Too much of that and it becomes your reality, your frame of reference, your ground to stand on. Getting away from it feels uncomfortable. There have been some articles in Psychology Today and Newsweek and other mainstream media about this. All this applies to submissives as well as dominants, to women as well as men. I wonder sometimes if it applies in balance. I never kept records and my impressions are probably skewed. Tim
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