| British Dating Site Focuses on Sexless Relationships
For anyone looking for sex, the Internet is often the first stop, with its array of dating sites and chat rooms devoted to the subject. It is probably the last place that those seeking a celibate relationship would consider looking. However, an online dating agency has been launched for those seeking intimacy without intercourse. Platonicpartners.co.uk says that it will help the silent minority of adults seeking "celibate, platonic, non-physical or partly physical relationships" and help them to find a mate. - Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center. The site was founded by Susie King, a former life coach, who was moved to set up the forum after a close friend attempted suicide because of his sexual impotence.
Log on and fall into the arms of your perfect political match
HERE'S some disconcerting news: the most democratic thing you can do this Saturday is let someone else tell you how to vote. Confused? You needn't be. Last week, the political activist group GetUp! launched a new web page that takes the guesswork out of voting by playing Cupid with citizens and candidates. The website, www.howshouldivote.com.au works like a computer dating site. Lonely voters simply enter their vital statistics (in this case postcodes rather than chest circumferences), answer a bunch of questions (views on corporate taxes rather than views on athletic Piscean divorcees) and voila: GetUp's crazy love-bug computer sends you the mobile phone numbers of 10 horny housewives in your area ... sorry, I mean a personalised how-to-vote card for the House of Representatives.
Hax: Dating woes might be a bigger problem
Carolyn: I find myself in another futureless relationship, just passing the time until being single seems more enticing than dating this person. At which point, we'll break up. A month or two later, I'll start the cycle again. Yuck. Is this what dating has become? How do I get off the Dating Hamster Wheel of Despair (DHWD)?Passing TimeThis is what dating has become for you. Making it a universal problem is a quick way to make it seem too vast to repair.So, as just one hamster on just one wheel, you have just one question to answer — why do you keep getting back on? Thinking like a hamster, I'd have to guess you're bored with your cage.In other words, if relationship catatonia is more enticing than being single, you need to make being single more enticing. Get off the wheel (now, please), and commit yourself to a ruthless inventory of your day-to-day life.
Birmingham Startup taps Christian tech company
An online Christian social youth hangout emerged as Birmingham's newest tech company after an accelerated startup process. CrossConneXion.com launched on Sunday. It made it through a two-week screening and development process conducted by members of Birmingham Startup. Birmingham Startup met, shared ideas, voted to narrow the proposed projects to three before choosing CrossConneXion.com as its collaborative effort. Jim Sutton, youth pastor at First Church Worship Center in Tarrant, pitched CrossConnexion an online Christian social hangout where teens can connect with friends and God. CrossConneXion.com will allow users to seek job and mission opportunities, watch celebrity interviews, upload pictures and videos and find teen-related information such as peer pressure, dating, college prep tips and leadership.
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