Thursday, October 29, 2009

Ladies! Ladies! Ladies!

In my last couple of blog entries I talked about both the security at Dream-marriage, and the way they charge for their services. While you can check out what I found in detail in my previous blog entries, the bottom line is that their security protocols are some of the best I have ever seen, and their pricing policies are such that you pay for what you want, and have the ability not to buy (or pay for) those services that you don’t want to use. Unlike most of the online dating services I have looked at – which offer a one-size-fits-all approach to pricing for their services – Dream-marriage allows me to control how much I spend, and what I spend it on.
As promised in my last blog, today I am going to start talking about the women of Dream-marriage.com. Let’s be honest here, guys – pricing is important, and online security is very necessary – but it is the people, and in my case specifically the ladies, who are going to make or break a site in terms of how valuable it is. Not every woman is going to appeal to me on every level, and I am certainly not going to appeal to every woman I meet, online or off. That means that for a site to have a chance with me, it is going to need to have a large community of women in it, so that I have plenty of choices available to me.
Whatever concerns I might have had about the number of women who used Dream-marriage faded away just about 30 seconds after I created my free three-day trial account and started sniffing around the site. There are thousands of ladies there – maybe even tens of thousands – and more are joining every day. These ladies range in age from 18 to 60, and come in all shapes and sizes – and from several countries. Just quickly glancing at their individual homepages on the site, in the matter of just a few minutes I found everything from dancers and musicians to teachers and secretaries, and virtually everything in between. And the thing about it is, while a lot of these women are drop-dead gorgeous this is not a site that is filled with wannabe super-models or ersatz, cosmetically enhanced creations with more add-on parts than a supped-up ’57 Chevy. These are real people, with real jobs and real lives, who are for the most part looking for the same thing online that I’m looking for – companionship with a member of the opposite sex. The fact that the team at Dream-marriage also verifies the identity of most of the women on their site (and indicates this right on the woman’s homepage) further goes to show that these ladies are who they claim to be.
Now, Dream-marriage states on their site that their goal is help facilitate long lasting relationships between men and women, but at this point in my life, I’m just interested in looking – playing the virtual field, if you will. While I very well might be interested in some kind of permanent relationship with one of the women on the site at some point in the future, right now I am just interested in having a little fun, and getting to know some lovely ladies without any strings attached. Dream-marriage makes this easy by allowing me to control exactly what I choose, or do not choose, to tell any of these women about myself and by also giving me a number of options regarding how I want to interact with them.
The most basic form of communication they offer is secure email that runs through the site. Basically, if I see someone I might be interested in getting to know a little better while I am browsing through profiles, I can fire them off an email. If they choose to respond, their return email comes to me through my Dream-marriage.com account – not through my personal or business email address – assuring my complete anonymity. That way, if the woman in question isn’t someone I want to continue to exchange mail with, I don’t have to worry about her spamming me to death.
Another way to communicate with the women on the site is by using their live chat capability. In this case, obviously, the woman in question has to be online, but Dream-marriage provides both a list of their online ladies, as well as an indication of their online status on their homepages. I tend to prefer this method personally, as I have always been pretty much a one-to-one kind of guy. Once I enter her private chat room, I can talk with the lady in real time and get to know a little bit about her. If she is someone that I think I might want to get to know a little better over a period of time, I can add her to my favorites list, and if she is someone that I don’t think I really have much in common with, I can simply click out of the chat room, end the conversation, and move on. Try managing that when you’re still on the appetizer course of a dinner date with the girl of your nightmares!
Another way that you can get to know some of the ladies on the site is by using their live streaming video service. While this isn’t available with all the women on the site (since, I imagine, some of them don’t have webcams) it is available with a lot of them. Basically, this service is used in conjunction with the live chat function, and lets you see the lady you are chatting with, in real time. This is one of the most popular services on the site, and it’s easy to see why. Live streaming video makes what is essentially a virtual experience all the more real and really enhances the connection you have with the lady you are talking with.
The ladies themselves … well, I think I’ll save talking about them for the next time. I have only gotten to know a few of them (so much beauty, so little time!), but the few I have spent some time with were all fantastic. So, yeah, I’ll tell you about a few of them the next time.

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