Ishtarr
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ORIGINAL: Epytropos Meh. It's not for me, but then neither are a lot of things. Why must everything be "real" or "true" or else "fake?" For me, the main reason people seems to have the conflict on whether or not online relationships are "real" versus "fake" is because most people in the BDSM culture seem to trow the word "real" around in a context to which it does not apply. One of the main definitions of the word "real" is: actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. When somebody engages in an online relationship, that online relationship is actually in existing, it's occurring, and it's not imagined at all. That means it's "real", especially seeing that, because of the very nature of what an online relationship is, there doesn't have to be physical contact for it to exist, occur or not be imagined. Just like cyber sex is "real", because when people engage in cyber sex, that cyber sex is actually occurring, and is not imagined, again because the very nature of cyber sex dictates that there is no physical contact. However, in both cases, they are not equivalent to an actual physical relationship. It's the lack of equivalency to physical relationships that most people try to express when they state that an online relationship isn't "real". This is silly, because the fact that something isn't equivalent to something else doesn't imply it doesn't exist, or is imagined. So yes, online relationships do "really" exists, and they can be gratifying to people for a number of reasons. However, the fact that online relationships are real doesn't mean that they can be compared to offline relationships, precisely because the prerequisites needed to speak of an offline relationship are different from those needed for an online relationships. The fact that apples and oranges are different things, that should be quantified and compared in different ways, doesn't mean either of them doesn't "really" exist. It just means that they are not each other's equivalent. Ishtar
< Message edited by Ishtarr -- 7/30/2011 8:54:02 AM >
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