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| Meeting, Mating, and Cheating: Sex, Love, and the New World of Online Dating (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books) |
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| "This book is a thoroughly engaging examination of our struggle for sex and romance in the age of technology and computer dating. Andrea Orr explores and reveals the realities of the way we live and love in today's world." --Jane Juska, author of A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance Virtually overnight, online dating has gone from a fringe phenomenon to a popular and mainstream way to meet, worldwide. This extraordinary social and business revolution is touching millions of lives--but until now, it's gone largely unreported. Andrea Orr tells the unique story of how online dating evolved from a hideout for fetishists to a mainstream way to meet--and a multi-million-dollar global industry. Orr uncovers the real Internet dating revolution, in all its many forms. M reveals Internet dating at its most intimate, following people who are struggling to find soul mates in a sea of singles. It takes you behind the scenes of the world's largest subscription dating service, illuminating the business of Internet dating.It exposes the hidden underside of Internet dating: the lying and "general weirdness" that are still just a click away, and the massive use of the Web to facilitate cheating. Orr's book also tours the world, showing how Internet dating is connecting people from Belfast to Beijing. You'll watch online dating morph to serve the needs of Mormons and Muslims, elderly widows and Asian wireless users. Orr takes a look at life beyond the laptop to the next dating revolutions--Wireless dating, high-tech psychological profiling and beyond. Experience it all: meet the unlikely entrepreneurs who've built hugely successful dating companies...travel to the "Love Bunker" and get a glimpse of life at Match.com, the world's #1 Internet dating service...discover the happily married couples who met online...catch a right on the great online mating tour: from Iran to Hong Kong, L.A. to Salt Lake City as you uncover devoutly religious Iranian women searching for like-minded husbands...and get the lowdown on "restless marrieds" who say cheating was never this easy. The new romance revolution--get inside the worldwide phenomenon of online dating!WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING "Meeting, Mating, and Cheating carefully chronicles the fascinating history of online dating services and exposes the ethics, economics, and efficacy of matchmaking for every conceivable taste. Andrea Orr personalizes the quest for a partner with compelling individual narratives." --Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D., ABPP, author of NOT "Just Friends": Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity, and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal "Meeting, Mating, and Cheating provides insight into a facet of the Internet phenomenon that is both fascinating and alarming. Orr's discussion of the Internet dating industry, and wide-ranging examples of people who are using new technologies in the most intimate area of their lives, reveals important aspects of technology-mediated relationships. In-depth exploration of this phenomenon in other cultures, especially among Muslims, adds an important global dimension to the book. This book is a 'must read' for anyone interested in Internet technology. It is also a must read for anyone considering using Internet dating services." --Dr. Cynthia J. Smith; Dr.Smith teaches anthropology and business at The Ohio State University ABOUT REUTERS Reuters (www.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Reuters information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe, based on the company's reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. Reuters has 16,000 employees in 94 countries, including some 2,400 editorial staff in 197 bureaus serving about 130 countries, making it the world's largest international multimedia news agency. |
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 Fascinating on so many levels |
| Review Date: September 19, 2003 |
| Reviewer: , |
| Meeting, Mating and Cheating provides an honest and thought-provoking look at the world of online dating. By following her subjects over the course of a year, Orr gives her readers a sense of all the different people who opt for online dating -- the young and the old, gay and straight, the urban and the rural dwellers, those seeking spouses and others just looking for friendship. The personal stories were sometimes poignant and sometimes just plain funny. I will always remember the single mother of three who went on line in search of the whole package -- "sex, companionship and the handy guy around the house." The book is well-researched and the prose is lively and accessible. Ms. Orr weaves the personal stories together with information about the business of online dating to create a book that is valuable for online daters as well as investors and others who follow business trends. I highly recommend this book. |
If You Like Watching Sex in the City, You'll Love This Book
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| Review Date: September 22, 2003 |
| Reviewer: Amanda Orr, New York, NY |
| A great read! Orr gives an overview of the people out there doing it, and the range of services offered, but more than that, she weaves in so many funny personal stories of the ups and downs of the process that I feel like I'm watching an episode of Sex and the City. The end result is that this book is entirely useful for anyone considering online dating, but you could also be happily married and enjoy reading it. It's a hoot! |
Changed my ideas about online dating -- for the better!
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| Review Date: October 2, 2003 |
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| A friend who has been prodding me to try online dating for over a year now gave this book to me as a way to show that everyone is doing it. She has been telling me this over and over again but I never could manage to take the leap. Then I read this book and I learned that that most singles today, and especially professional urban singles, are all socializing online. I had been missing out! This book has so many cute and funny stories of people who met online. I had only read three chapters when I put the book down, sat down at my computer, and signed up for Match.com. I've met a great guy and we have our third date this week! Orr's book is insightful and entertaining and also gives you a lot of good ideas about how to present yourself online and how to wade through all the responses you receive. |
READ THIS BOOK!!!
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| Review Date: February 4, 2004 |
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| I don't think I could give it a more enthusiastic recommendation. I just read here that another reviewer compared it to an episode of Sex and The City, and that is very true. Like the TV show this book, has many hilarious and very moving stories of the ups and downs of the dating game that anyone can relate to. Unlike Sex and the City, it's not all about spoiled New York City girls. There are stories of people from the heartland looking for love, middle aged small town people who have been divorced three times before finding true love online, lonely grandmothers, even people in China. The book also manages to impart some useful advice about writing your online dating profile, and about which sites you might want to consider joining. |
the real deal on internet dating
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| Review Date: July 4, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Claudia Graziano, San Francisco, CA |
| what I liked about this book is that it's not a "how to" about internet dating, and it doesn't try and give advice. instead, this book gives you an overview of the whole online dating phenomenon, peppered with "fly on the wall" anecdotes from people whose experiences aren't always the most positive. a real-world view of online dating as told from a journalist's perspective. |
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