Newly single, my friend Munster has started dating (I use this word euphemistically) with a vengeance (this is an understatement). He has also started blogging. Here, an entry about the many guys on the net who are endlessly seeking... something or other. Munster surveys the field (from a very busy iphone) and concludes "one of them that you meet would fall into one of these constructions".They are:
1. Just Give Me Sex
This group is functional and practical. Be ready for a litany of questions such as your preferred position, your likes, dislikes and preferences, organ length and girth, usage of chemical enhancements and if you have a place ready for the feats of pleasure.
In this group, (almost) everyone is in pursuit of the shared body ideal.
2. Chronic Singles
These folks have either faced a devastating breakup from their last relationship and/or they have remained single for some time and are unwilling or have no desire to be jolted from their routine, routine that has protected them from the travails of having to date, court, pursue and establish a relationship. Some have psychic scars that have trapped them in a rut, unable or unwilling to climb out.
3. Friendships Are Best
These are in relationships who are out to make friends and expand their social network. Many are happy to remain cyber-friends chatting on msn and texting, their spouses unaware of their need to form bridges out of their islands. There are also singles who privilege their work and do not want to complicate their already complex lives.
4. Friendships Are Best But I Want Sex
Some of these singles claim that they want to be friends but they also desire sex. Their motive for friendship is to have a romp in bed.
5. Monogamy Is Dead
Many already in relationships salvage their love by declaring that their relationship "open". They refuse to be trapped by the norms of monogamy, declaring that love is beyond the body, these guys venture into the bodies of others.
6. I Love U
Some form instantaneous connections and believing in "love at first sight", privileging love over the physical.
7. Let's Date
Everyone in this group would claim that they are no longer desire the body but value personality and character. These traditionalists believe in the proper stages of a courtship - first exchange pic, then msn, followed by handphone, maybe a cuppa or dinner, etc ...
8. Nothing
Lastly, some just do not know what they want, acting in a blase manner or in the other extreme, full of hyperactivity.
Source: http://munster-everythingtobehappyabout.blogspot.com/
Boils down to whatever floats that boat :P
ReplyDeletenumber #2 sounds pretty good.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Daniel!
Merry Christmas Carlos!!! Long time no hear... welcome back to the blog.
ReplyDeleteThat sounded very bleak but I found myself nodding in agreement as I was reading on, spot on.
ReplyDeleteI think most people have arrived to a belief that everyone else online are merely pleasure seeking and that nothing too serious can ever come out of it. And like the saying goes, easy come and so, easy goes. Meeting someone new online is simply way too easy and then at the slightest discord, people get dropped just as easy but they'll just think to themselves that they'll meet someone new since it's so easy anyways and so the cycle repeats itself, over and over again.
alleycaat: So wat's the appeal of these cyberspace pickups? I don't get it; It sounds miserable and 'bleak' as you say... so why do people continue to pursue this game?
ReplyDeleteThe root of this phenomenon is loneliness and the easiest escape is instant gratification made readily available at the click of the mouse and despite the comfort being hollow and short lived, to most it is better than having naught but this soon spirals out of control into a mindless addiction.
ReplyDeletei think the root is not loneliness but LAZINESS. the net is the cup noodles of connection, all about empty calories... not healthy!
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