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Online Dating: Men Concealing Their Gender On Dating Sites With Fake “Women Profiles”

By desjardins8 on October 6, 2008 - 1:08am

Following a post I made on another blog regarding dating sites such as Plentyoffish I had emails of men complaining that it was hard for men to contact women online and that was the reason why there was fake profiles…. Fake profiles? I replied. I was told that there are a lot of men pretending to be women on dating sites. Are there any women pretending to be men? Apparently not!

Why some guys out there feel the urge to change sex online? What would be their reasoning? How on earth would they imagine their “feminine self” online? How do they build their profile? Are they looking for other men? Are they closeted? Or are they trying to uncover some of women’s secrets while they are off guards?

1. There are a lot of different reasons

I noted 4 types of reasons why men do this. On gay web sites some men pretend to be lesbian women to live their fantasy of being a “woman with another woman”.

On heterosexual sites that type of fake profile allows you to have friendly contact with other women and the selection of partners is easier with a girl profile. Which results in a competitive advantage. If one wanted to make some sort of a “sociological” experiment that would be one of the better ways to do it without being discovered.

Recently, a 31-year-old Vancouver artist named Max created many women’s profiles on several dating sites. He also started online relationships, which lasted for months. He says: “I wanted to see how things were on the women side. I wanted to understand why we as men receive only a few responses to our emails. When you realize the harassment that exist on the women side, for example, a website like Plentyoffish, a woman receive would receive up to 60 emails an hour, then you understand why men’s emails are not answered.”

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