"Cheating
online is Adultery."
Headline
from La Stampa, a popular Italian newspaper
"My wife doesn’t care if I have relationships (even
sexual) on the Internet. It’s like it’s not real ...I can get
away with it. But, I’m sure she’d get upset if we were to meet
for a drink or something."
--
Anonymous Dateable.com Survey Respondent
41-year old married male from Oklahoma City
A recent survey by Dateable.com, one of the first Internet romance
communities, has revealed the results from a four-month survey of
Internet sex and morality. The bottom line: You can talk, but you
can’t look.
Dateable.com
picked a good time to release these results. The Italian public is
having the same debate this week. A recent poll of Italians, where
97% of the population is Roman Catholic, said that 40% of Italian
women interviewed said they feared that "their husbands might
find a woman more fascinating than them while surfing the Web."
How
do Americans compare?
When
Dateable.com visitors were asked where they would draw the line when
their significant other commits cyber-contact with a member of the
opposite sex, their responses were a little surprising.
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According
to the survey, conducted by Dateable.com in the first half of
2000, here is what IS OK:
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79.7%
of their viewers stated that it IS OK to reply to an instant
message or ICQ.
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The
same percent of viewers even went as far as to say it IS OK to
have an online IM or ICQ conversation with a member of the
opposite sex whom they don’t even know.
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An
astonishing 75.2% of their visitors stated that it IS OK for
their significant other to visit an adult site.
And
here’s what’s NOT OK:
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Photo
exchange. 54% of Dateable.com’s visitors say it is NOT OK to
exchange photos with a person of the opposite sex whom they
don’t know.
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77.4%
visitors polled that it is NOT OK for their significant other to
participate in an adult one-on-one online video conversation
with a member of the opposite sex whom they don’t know.
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80.6%
of Dateable.com’s visitors feel that it is NOT OK for their
significant other to give his or her phone number to a member of
the opposite sex whom they do not know, but met online.
Nobody
knows the true number of extra-marital affairs occurring online, but
Elizabeth Field, founder of Infidelitybusters.com, said she knows
increasing numbers of people who have been burned by this kind of
cheating. "To me, it's a sign of the times ... I don't agree
with (cyber-cheating) at all," said Field. Want to learn more
about the survey? Go to www.dateable.com to participate in the sex
and morality survey and read the results.
© Dateable.com LLC
2000
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