According to new dating research done by MarketTools Inc. for Match.com here’s what they found while talking to 5,481 adults aged 21 and over.
- 38% would cancel a date because of something they found while doing online research on their date.
- 42% would not date a virgin.
- 65% would not date someone with credit card debt greater than $5,000; 54% would not date someone with substantial student loan debt.
- 49% would consider getting into a committed relationship with someone who lived at home with parents.
When it came to what people looked for on a first date both men and women agreed it was teeth, good grammar and a sense of humor. Sound like you?
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I wonder why.
I’m definitely part of the 65% and 54% when it comes to debt and don’t let me find out that your parents are elderly and have substantial debt. I cannot deal.
LMAO so you would pass on someone like Obama
Point and case ^^^
We we had no way to know that B. Obama would become the President of the United States so would I pass on an unemployed unlicensed lawyer sitting on a mountain of debt with no legitimate plan personal plan for repayment? Absolutely. A lot of people have crazy student loans and their plan is to pay the minimum on them…forever.
I can’t say that was the situation for B. Obama because I know he was working in some capacity for the city of Chicago so in that exact situation I’m not sure. He just paid his student loans of 8 years ago so it seems as though he had a plan.
the point they are making is potential, people often ask of others what they themselves do not bring to the table. Not saying thats you but look at the whole picture first.
Im talking smack but I understand where your coming from. I do think its about potential instead of having a preset of rules.
Ugh being a virgin is so hard and the lack of sex ain’t even the difficult part
what’s so hard about it?
The prejudice. The mockery. The insulting assumptions about us, often made by people like you.
5k on a credit card is nothing i mean who are these people dating. There are millionaires with 100′s of thousands of dollars on credit cards. does that make them broke?
True
I was thinking the same thing…you have to look at the debt relative to the assets (ie. you can have $5k in credit card debt but cash in the bank that greatly exceeds that debt amount)
As a 20-year old Indian-American virgin, I hate the prejudice against virgins. We’re not sexually ignorant, repressed, naive idiots who can’t function in the adult world. Many bloggers (and their commenters) have talked about this prejudice against virgins in a mocking way, and it just shows the narrow-minded intolerance that society once showed towards pre-marital sex. Many sexually active people have this idea in their minds that virgins are narrow-minded, religious fanatics. Or that it will be an enormous pain to teach a virgin how to have sex.
As a virgin I am obviously not an expert on the subject of sex, but I hardly think it will be difficult to learn. It’s a normal, instinctual human activity, not rocket science. Given love, trust, and an enthusiastic appreciation for one’s lover and the act itself, I think a virgin will learn what to do fairly quickly. We’re virgins, not idiots.
Just because you can’t imagine marrying someone without sleeping with them first, it doesn’t put you in a position to denounce that choice. How would you feel if I said I had no respect for sluts because I think their choice is stupid? Exactly. Everyone’s SO ready to defend promiscuity, but heaven forbid we try to defend our chastity!
I’m an extremely strong woman. I embrace my sexuality, knowing that each person choose to express it differently. I masturbate (without ever, ever feeling guilty or sinful) and I know exactly what turns me on, maybe even better than many sexually active women. I have never judged my friends’ choices, and they have at least pretended not to judge me. I’m funny, outgoing, intelligent (I go to a great liberal arts school and am extremely well-read), give back to the community, listen to indie rock and read Neil Gaiman and R. Scott Bakker. I also edit a journal and am generally the life of the party. You would never know I was a happy virgin unless I told you. But then you wouldn’t believe it, because it would break all those precious, precious negative stereotypes.