I was watching 20/20 a few weeks ago and there was a story on a famous New Zealand sexologist.She mentioned that 1 in 25 New Zealanders are not comfortable approaching a boy or a girl without being under the influence of alcohol and have never slept with someone while they were sober. While this is sad it made me think how easy it would be for those people to go online and find love. Like Luke mentioned in class the computer screen is a somewhat shield for people who have low self esteem and don't have the confidence to get out and be themselves infront of the opposite or same sex.
There are so many different kids of love/chat websites today that everyone can find their other half, or someone for a shorter amount of time to be happy with. There are different blogs, chatrooms and websites for every fetish you can possibly think of such as 'gothic love' and a whole lot more. Lets face it theres a lot of wierd stuff in todays world.
I came across a website when I did a little bit of research on chat rooms and found one where you can pick brides from Russia and Ukraine to marry. You can pick her pay for her visa and ticket to New Zealand (or any other counrty)and marry her. Sort of like internet shopping. in the website it says that Russian women over 30 have a hard time finding a husband and this is their only way of finding love and someone stable to be with and spend the rest of their life with. The cost to keep your profile on the website sort of looks like the setting (way of payment) like trademe, depending on how long you want your profile on there for or until someone buys one for marrige. For some men this might be ideal and an easy way to find a women to spend his life with. But at the end of the day could you really spend the rest of your life with someone you bought online or with someone who bought you online? do those marriges succeed or fail ?

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