Online Dating Best Taken Slowly, Study Finds

Take Online Dating Nice & Slow

A research study conducted by the Social Science Research Journal has found that online dating is most effective daters spend time getting to know each other before getting intimate. This applies to those who are looking for love, or something long term, and reflects dating offline too.

The courtship acts as a screening process, according to the study conductor sociology professor Anthony Paik of the University of Iowa. If two people get intimate too quickly they give themselves no time to get to know each other, which applies to both online dating and offline dating.

For the study 642 participants in a relationship were questioned, and 56% of them who said they waited to get serious before becoming sexually intimate also said they had a high quality relationship. So it’s best to delay having sex.

“The debate is ‘why can’t we have sex now?’ The expectation is that sex should occur very quickly. But doing so, you’re losing out on some information that might be useful,” Paik explained in an interview.

The online dating scene has been growing exponentially over the last few years. The US online dating community is expected to spend a whopping $1 billion in 2011.

One of the biggest and most popular online dating sites is Mate1.com. And there are plenty of niche dating sites growing every day. Some better known examples are BlackPeopleMeet.com and SingleParentMeet.com.

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Posted by Gloria Rand on Aug 23 2010. Filed under Featured News, Lifestyle. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry