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A certain ratio - our crazy cyberworld  

matt-battler 50M
278 posts
9/2/2015 11:28 am
A certain ratio - our crazy cyberworld

Many of you will have noticed a real media feeding frenzy surrounding a certain website offering up the prospect of extra-marital affairs recently. The press relished exposing the data hack which indicated 30-odd million people were caught with their pants down doing something they shouldn't, online anyway. One of the more telling facts that came out of this sorry affair was that the gender ratio on said website was 95% men, 5% women.

It's my contention that men and women do not differ radically when it comes to levels of fidelity, even if for evolutionary reasons men are more comfortable with the idea of having multiple partners during their lifetime. I've come across dozens of women on here who are playing away from home on the sly. Based on this experience, it's my contention that the massive gender imbalance documented on the affairs website is pretty typical of casual dating websites. Indeed it's fair to say the male majority continues on mainstream dating sites, even ones that pretty much bend over backwards to cater for women.



Even today 99% of all construction site workers are men, dating sites aren't much different

When I dipped my toe into commuterland I read The Metro every morning, it carried various stories about niche dating sites. One of them was started by a father in Denmark who'd become single again. He founded a specialist site explicitly for people that wanted to form serious relationships and have together as he noticed women ticking a 'prefer not to say' box about their inclination to have on other dating sites. While I have no objection to being a Dad, this is pretty much a background thought for me and not a priority - not a major instinct like the maternal one is in women. Despite the fact that women generally feel a lot more strongly than men about having the gender ratio on this 'start-a-family' site was 53% men 47% women. I think it's safe to say that EVERY dating website has a male majority to one extent or other, except for the lesbian ones.

Men know very well they are in the majority and therefore are operating in an ultra-competitive environment all the time - the scramble for the attention of the attractive and social adept women on here is pretty fierce. We don't like it, but we'll go along with it, if we have the mentality that you can beat the competition and you don't give up easily. This acceptance of total imbalance doesn't stretch beyond the virtual world, however.

Many years ago a few regulars in the London chatroom organised a series of socials, this involved dinner and drinks for 30 - 35 people in venues that alternated between North and South London. I was asked to come along a few times, I never went as I didn't feel like spending time and money going to a venue, be ignored by most and just fade into the background. This must've been a view shared by most of the guys who'd been burned by the experience of going to a dinner with just five women and 30 men as the numbers soon dwindled. One evening I was chatting to a woman via MSN who'd attended several socials, she posted a message meant for one of her girlfriends moaning about how crap the last social was as the numbers had reverted to around eight women and only seven men - oh the indignity of a marginal disadvantage in numbers!!! How I wept at her plight (this might be the single most sarcastic thing I've ever written).

Out there in the real world, where the flashbulbs and dry ice disappear, you're not constantly being asked if you're a model or a dancer and people treat you like you're no better than you should be. This is because the gender ratio is equal and single men aren't a pack of hyenas straining every sinew to get ahead of each other and be first in line for you. Anyway until a lightning bolt resets the global internet I'll continue battling against Terry, Gary and Barry (and 20 other men) to get dates on here. Lucky my default settings are set to spear throwing and club-to-club combat



Stormy Daniels, has to stare off into the middle distance to see the next woman in cyberspace

lovelylassie36ff 51F
20 posts
9/7/2015 3:41 am

Wow to Stormy - she's cute!


matt-battler 50M
199 posts
9/7/2015 10:32 am

I wouldn't kick Stormy out of bed - though I mainly chose that shot because of the funny look on her face. I know for a fact that Stormy is part of a massive colony of models that are roaming free range in the countryside not far from here. I just have to cut some new tracks through very thick ancient woodland, pass a disused quarry where there's a couple of dozen Giant Pandas, pass another quarry which is chock full of Griffins and Unicorns and they're all in a clearing. They're certainly out there - just the wi-fi signal is really weak - that's why they're not online you see . . .


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