the anonimity allows for relaxed inhibitions and allows males to express what they might otherwise repress in a face to face situation... what about the phenomenon of males acting like females on IRC? I think that it is just a grab for attention really you should see the amount of attention a female can get on IRC not just sexual... attention in general... you get hit on left and right... yes, I have logged on as female before too, its fun to play with people's minds :) I got hit on left and right.. had tons of guys talking to me... I would get messages out of the blue.. they ranged from a friendly "hi" - to sexual advances... females are treated much differently.... there are given attention merely because they are of the opposite sex.. it might also be because of the character of the males online, sex starved compu geeks :) there is also a lack of females... I know people that have become emotionally attached over IRC... > net.marriages and such? yeah, that INSANE shit... just fucking blows my mind that people take this THAT seriously falling in love with a login does not do it for me... I think it is a symptom of a larger problem, that they cannot deal properly with real life... so IRC becomes a substitute... and they begin to treat IRC like real life... sometimes with sex and all... but then again IRC sex need not be emotional... it can be just for fun. it is a trap for people that are unsure of themselves in REAL life... > do you think females are more or less willing to engage in net.sex then males? much less... > why? I have seen how my friend reacts to such advances... she reacts very negatively... > why? and all the famel friends I have on the net would act similarly I think. they might stand for some kidding sextalk, but nothing more... I think that they find it repulsive... I would not be suprised if 99% of net.sex was male-male well, I think that you can draw a comparison between net.sex and porno males are stimulated by it, females are turned off by it.... net.sex it is very much like reading one of the porno stories in a penthouse.. you might link it to promiscuity, though such a person might not be at all promiscous in real life, perhaps the opposite, but sees IRC as a release for what she cannot let herself do in real life...