LTRsubNW
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ORIGINAL: TPEOwner I've been meeting prospective bdsm partners via the internet, and before that via print classified ads for well over 20 years. Back in the day, you wrote a few lines about who you were and what you were looking for and had a box number on your ad for replies. Someone contacted you or vice versa, you spoke on the phone once or twice, then you met for dinner or a drink, and if it went well, you saw them again. Very simple and quick, and the most you had to lose was a few hours of your time. (I swear to God, I read your whole prose and I though you were a woman...you could sum all this shit up in fewer than 2 sentences...ya know). Now? (Now? There's more?...I was already bored with the above!!!!) I was surfing female submissive ads on here yesterday, and I came across a woman who had 27 (yes I counted them) qualifications (I counted 19, but who's counting...please continue) that a prospective dominant must meet in order for her to be interested. Now I'm the first one to tell people not to settle for less than they want and need, but I have 7 or 8 must have's, and consider myself quite picky (Ya know...I've looked at your entire message herein...and I don't even see ONE "must have's {by the way...thank you for the gramatical corrections so far}). In the past 7 years that I have been actively seeking an LTR, I have yet to find anyone who met my standards (it's the trustworthy and able to trust that seems to trip them all up). (Ain't it always so). So my question for everyone is, are we over screening? ("Overscreening" is actually one word...no hyphen...just so you know). The internet gives us all the time and tools to question, disect ("dissect"...two s's) and anylyze (I can't do everything here) anyone before making any sort of decision, (corrupted sentence) but it also removes all nuance, charm, charisma and chemistry. (Paragraph/break) Is there anyone who has been doing this for any length of time who hasn't found someone who seemed perfect on line (again, see above), only to meet them and go "blech" (question mark {you need one}). (Paragraph) I wonder how many times the opposite might be true, but of course we never meet them to find out. Add in the on line liars and the game players who have everyone suspiscious (blech) of everyone else, and it's a miracle (that) anyone ever meets anyone at all. Now the safety nazis (of course, that's a capital "N") can all tune out, because I've heard it all before, but any adult who doesn't know how to arrange a safe public meeting these days isn't firing on all cylinders. (Sorry...paragraph again). Is writing lengthy profiles with 27 prequalification demands, followed by days weeks or months of online communication really a better investment of our time and energy than exchanging an e-mail or two, a phone call or two, then meeting? (Paragraph) And what's more (italics) important, (semicolon) is it a (redundant/overuse) more effective for finding suitable matches? ("or"....as in...your question begged another...and it left wanting). Uhmmm...I would say...No.
< Message edited by LTRsubNW -- 12/29/2006 8:07:33 PM >
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