Get Your #1 Internet Dating Questions Answered by Dr. Arlene Krieger

As a sexologist, I get a lot of questions everyday about the rules of online dating. You may have found yourself wondering what the rules are. Today, I share the top 10 questions that I get asked by my clients. Please leave your answers to these questions in the comment section below and next week I will share my answers to these burning questions.  

1. Question: Who should start the conversation or send the first email when dating online?
2. Question: Is it ok to ask someone what their intentions are? Are they planning on dating several people or are they ready to settle down?                     
3. Question: Boy meets girl, Girl meets boy (in person) now what?
4. Question: A man asks you out, you go on two dates and now it is already Friday morning and he hasn’t called to see if you are available tonight or for the weekend. What do you do?
5. Question: If you go on a few dates and the chemistry feels right, yet he hasn’t called to make plans with you for the weekend and you have other people interested in you and asking you out – Do you go?
6. Question: If you are the woman in the relationship, do you have to wait for the man to call?
7. Question:  Why don’t people just say what they mean or say what they want? 
8. Question: Do you feel that there should be many weeks of talking before you get intimate?
9. Question: Do you think that you should get the intimacy out of the way, so you can see if the sexual chemistry there?
10. Question: Is it possible that your expectations are completely unrealistic?

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So have you heard that iPhone users have more sex? According to an article at News.com.au, iPhone users are more likely to have had sex with more people than indivdiuals using another smartphones. This comes after a study of online daters shows that the average 30 year old iPhone user has slept with around 11 people, almost double the amount of Blackberry and Android phone users.  This information was collected from OkCupid.com and an analysis that they did of almost 10,000 people using it's dating website. The study also shows that woman iPhone users had more sex partners then their male counterparts.

So, the questions are, "Do people find others attractive based on the smartphone that they use?

Or is this just a coincidence?

Does the type of smartphone that a person uses, help you decide to sleep with them?

In the future will we be able to search for love interested on our favorite dating website by the type of smartphone that they use?

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Have you ever been witness to the couple that thinks it is ok to take a jab at each other in front of a crowd?

We have all seen it. For instance, a couple at a dinner party with friends is talking about the days when you use to have to pay for your internet service by the minute and how great it is now that you can use the internet for an unlimited amount of time each month. Then the wife chimes in, “That really is a good thing, you should have seen the size of our internet bill after John’s visits to Girls, Girls, Girls .com!”

Whoa! What? It is one of those comments that are supposed to be funny; however the entire room becomes quiet. The husband will turn several shades of red and all you can do is hope someone will change the conversation and fast!

If you asked the wife why she would say such a thing in front of everyone, she would probably reply that it was only a joke and that John knows she is joking.

But is it only a joke? What do you think of couples who jab at each other in public?

Do you think that it is funny or just plain mean?

Do you think that these couples purposely put each other down in front of others?

Or that they speak before they think?

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