adult dating sites

Once upon a time, a female and a male physically met, laid eyes on each other, and instantly decided if they liked what they saw. Today, adult dating sites have transformed the process of human mate evaluation. An individual can choose a site that targets their specific preference (ex. interracial dating), pull up a profile, scan the potential mate's best picture and see if the personality profile that the potential mate advertises matches their own.

Adult dating sites would be perfect, except for a few kinks in the system.

1. Adult dating services should make adult dating free on adult dating sites
2. People just aren't honest

The focus of this analysis is on point #2. On adult dating sites, people just aren't honest. However, it's human nature. When adult dating sites weren't around, people were left to enhancing their physical selves in order to garner the attention of the opposite sex. Women heightened their sex appeal through perfume, makeup, clothing, and sometimes plastic surgery. Men wore cologne, did their hair, and wore attractive clothes. In some ways, such physical enhancements is dishonest; however, this can certainly be argued.

On adult dating sites, people are choosing photos that are often ill representative of themselves. Instead of solely relying on physical enhancements, people on adult dating sites find a decent photographer and a photo shop program. They also often "sell" themselves through their profiles by advertising their positive aspects and even "enhancing" others, such as heightening wealth and lowering age.

Another problem with adult dating sites are not being able to interpret body language. Studies reveal that body language is often more important than verbal language in communicating. Not being able to base a first impression on body language on adult dating sites may greatly affect the pool of potentials. An individual may have already had high expectations about the potential mate due to their profile on the adult dating site. Because they are fixated on these positive and often inflated characteristics of the potential mate they may miss negative body language cues that should have been originally detected had a physical encounter first occurred.

Whether adult dating sites are a good thing or a bad thing are up for debate. One thing is for sure: adult dating sites are certainly transforming courtship as we once knew it.