"Women canon" seeking "sexy guy" on the Internet are ... - Slate.fr

A considerable number of men pretending to be women online, at least on the British dating site Plenty of Fish.

Its director Marcus Frind has just announced that the 3.3 million users of its service in Britain (the site is also available in French, but did not give figures on our compatriots) only 6041 women seeking short-lived history. He added in a message to users that “with those sexy pictures are mostly men pretending to be women,” .

has also decided to close the “one-night” Plenty of Fish section, given the number of complaints of users being harassed by men seeking only sex. Marcus Frind now wants to refocus on its website “relationships that make sense” .

“can be described as intimate gatherings under a bunch of horny guys who talk to a bunch of horny guys pretending to be women” , he summarized in his message .

on Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory is not surprised by this announcement – “?’s not, like, the first rule of the Internet” – and chooses to focus on the reasons men pretending to be women online.

It mentions several possible answers, advanced by psychologist John Suler in an article entitled Do Boys (and Girls) Just Wanna Have Fun interested in cyberspace in general, not just the dating sites, first published in 1996 and republished with additions in 2004.

For example, the men in question may seek to express their feminine side, they repress their lives every day, says John Suler:

“the pressure of cultural stereotypes view, it can be difficult for some men to explore with them what society labels as” feminine “characteristics. These men could enjoy the anonymity of cyberspace to express their “feminine” side, they feel they have to hide the rest of the time. “

It could also be men who have homosexual desires and do not necessarily get to express the “disguise” a woman allowing them to maintain intimate relationships, romantic and / or practice cybersex.

John Suler noted at the time that women also claimed to be men online. One of them explained to him pretending to be a man for all sorts of reasons, to be successful chieftain in a video game where it was hard to recruit as a woman, then no problem as that rights.

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