Internet Dating Quotes

“Love is not blind but it leads to blindness.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“To win the hearts of beautiful creatures, your stories must always be told with a joyful face, full of sweetness and love, seen at a distance with kindness.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.”
― Clive Worth

“One of the best things about humans is their ability to love.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“True love is durable and hard to find.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

“But whether or not teenagers are using dating apps, they're coming of age in a culture that has already been affected by the attitudes the apps have introduced. 'It’s like ordering Seamless,' says Dan, the investment banker, referring to the online food-delivery service. 'But you’re ordering a person.' The comparison to online shopping seems apt. dating apps are the free-market economy come to sex.”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“I'd woken up this morning and nearly crapped my pants with fear. Whoever invented Internet dating deserved to be strung up: it was a terrible idea.”
― Lucy Robinson, The Greatest Love Story of All Time

“Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The body, I started to learn, was not a secondary entity. The mind contained very few truths that the body withheld. There was little of import in an encounter between two bodies that would fail to be revealed rather quickly. The epistolary run up to the date only rarely revealed the truth of a man's good humor or introversion, his anxiety or social grace. Until the bodies were introduced, seduction was only provisional.”
― Emily Witt, Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love

“We are in uncharted territory" when it comes to sex and the internet, says Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. "There have been two major transitions" in heterosexual mating, Garcia says, "in the last four million years. The first was around ten to fifteen thousand years ago, in the agricultural revolution, when we became less migratory and more settled," leading to the establishment of marriage as a cultural contract.
"And the second major transition is with the rise of the Internet," Garcia says. Suddenly, instead of meeting through proximity, community connections, and family and friends, people could meet each other virtually and engage in amorous activity with the click of a button. Internet meeting is now surpassing every other form. “It’s changing so much about the way we act both romantically and sexually,” Garcia says. “It is unprecedented from an evolutionary standpoint.”
And yet this massive shift in our behavior has gone almost completely unexamined, especially given how the internet permeates modern life. While there have been studies about how men and women use social media differently- how they use language and present themselves differently, for example- there's not a lot of research about how they behave sexually online; and there is virtually nothing about how girls and boys do. While there has been concern about the online interaction of children and adults, it's striking that so little attention has been paid to the ways in which the Internet has changed the sexual behavior of girls and boys interacting together. This may be because the behavior has been largely hidden or unknown, or, again, due to the fear of not seeming "sex-positive," mistaking responsibility for judgement.
And there are questions to ask, from the standpoint of girls' and boys' physical and emotional health and the ethics of their treatment of each other. Sex on a screen is different from sex that develops in person, this much seems seems self-evident, just as talking on a screen is different from face-to-face communication. And so if talking on a screen reduces one's ability to be empathic, for example, then how does sex on a screen change sexual behavior? Are people more likely to act aggressively or unethically, as in other types of online communication? How do gender roles and sexism play into cybersex? And how does the influence of porn, which became available online at about the same time as social networking, factor in?”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“Emily swiped right on every picture, indicating interest, and within minutes she was getting matches. Her picture, now centered in a little circle, came rolling toward a boy's picture in another circle, and collided with it, with a little ding. "See," she said, "it's like a game.”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The mainstreaming of porn is tremendously affecting what’s expected of them. They’re learning sex through porn. What it means to have sex, a lot of the time, is to mimic what they see in pornography.”
(Donna Freitas quote from book)”
― Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“Was it love when we met on the Internet? Was it love when he pursued me with silly messages and praise for my writing and a picture drawn in my favourite candy? When an attractive person pursues you, there is the luxury of not having to worry about whether it is love, because you are not the one don't the pursuing. At least, not at first. My usual habit of falling for people, when I think I am not falling, seemed irrelevant. He poked and messaged and "liked" and faved my every Internet itch. I had feelings, any feelings, under control.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“It's proper netiquette to send a lot of messages to matches on internet dating websites. NetworkEtiquette.net”
― David Paul Chiles

“Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Since love grows within us, so beautiful that we shall love each other without having regrets again and again.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Online dating is a lot like picking out a vacuum cleaner: There is a great selection. They all look like they would be a good fit, they may not be exactly what the manufacturer promises, some may have already been used and returned, there are strings attached, and some come at a high cost. ”
― Germany Kent

“It is better to be single than in a bad relationship.”
― Shelby Wagner, Learning to Dance in the Rain II: Surviving Grief, Internet Dating and Romance Scams

“In the age of the internet,
Love is a whole new game to play.
Swipe left, swipe right,
Who knows what might you find today”
― medicosaurabh