Posted September 24, Sex and the internet have always been close partners, and that has continued as social networking has become the dominant way people interact online. Adult Friend Finder note: this link goes to a page that is safe for work, but most of the pages on the site are not , with 40 million users, is a social networking site dedicated to helping users find partners for sex or swinging.
In the mids, it was the single largest social networking on the web, outnumbering even MySpace I even wrote about it way back then, marveling at how "sex sells social networks". While it is now dwarfed by Facebook and other popular sites, it remains strong especially given its narrow focus and one of the more popular sites on the web.
So how does easy access to casual hook ups affect the people involved? What kinds of relationships come from these encounters and how do they affect the people involved? Two studies get to that answer from different sides. An interesting study of men who use the site [1] reported the results of interviews first.
The subjects in the study felt liberated by the site because they were able to pursue relationships that were first about sex and, if everything worked out, then move on to small talk and a potential relationship. The also talked about how the site allowed them to fulfill their fantasies and if they were looking for something outside the normal scope of Adult Friend Finder, the site frequently directed them to their BSDM counterpart alt.
However, the author's conclusions do not paint the site as a fortunate outlet for its users. She writes:. The influence and theme of the AFF-website seems to help justify their actions on and offline. It is just so easy for them to simply sit at their computers, in the comfort of their homes or office, to find new sexual partnersβ¦all at the click of a mouse.
