Cybersex – having online sex talk where you describe in detail what you are doing to each other – has been around as long as the Internet itself. It used to be ‘just’ talk – text in chat rooms or talk programs. But with the advent of virtual worlds like Second Life, it’s a lot more than ‘just’ talk. And even if it is just talk – if you are married, is having cyber sex the same as cheating on your wife or husband? We say “yes” – and you get to answer the question too, with our survey at the end!

Adult FriendFinder has been roasted by the FTC for forcing explicit ads – in the form of graphic pop-ups for Adult Freind Finder, advertising the Adult Friendfinder network – on people who were not only not looking for Adultfriend Finder, but who weren’t looking for an adult finder service at all – such as children. Adult Friend Finders has reached a settlement with the FTC, under which Adult FriendFinders – and Adult FriendFinder affiliates – must cease and desist from displaying explicit ads unless the user is actively seeking out that sort of content, or has…er..explicitly consented to see such content.

Have you ever wondered about those roadside singles signs that are cropping up all over the place – signs by the side of the road that offer local dating in cities and towns around the country? You know the ones, they all tout some local-sounding singles group, with a website address which always ends in either “singles.com” or “dates.com”, such as “citynamesingles.com” or “yourtownhere.com”. Well, they’re almost all affiliate plays – they want your money, and offer little in return.

I read an article this week about “virtual rape”. Yes, really. That would be virtual sexual assault on your virtual online character or persona. This is all coming out now because, I kid you not, someone from Second Life reported a virtual rape to the police in Brussels. And they are investigating it. Oh for pete’s sake, give me a break! How tenous a grasp on reality do these people have? And how the heck can there be “forced online sexual activity”? Isn’t that nearly an oxymoron?

Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet?

It used to be that the worst place a parent could think of for their daughter to meet a mate was the neighborhood bar. Or perhaps a sci-fi convention. Indeed, the last think that a parent wanted to imagine was their child picking someone up at a bar. But all that has changed with the advent of online dating.

When Jesse from Denver thought that he’d found a good thing in MySpace friends, being able to find all those beautiful MySpace girls right near him whom he could play, and trick into befriending, bedding, and boarding him, he hadn’t counted on the fact that MySpace is a two-way street. It was the MySpace comments what done him in.

With all of the buzz continuing about MySpace, good and bad (lots of MySpace danger stories), we finally figured that we should test out our own MySpace profile.

With the murder of Josie Phyllis Brown by MySpace date John Christopher Gaumer, and Lori Leonard by Internet date Shawn Doyle, laws requiring that online dating sites perform criminal background checks are starting to crop up around the country.

As reported here last week, online dating giant Match.com was served with a lawsuit claiming that they engaged in fraudulent and deceptive business practices, and specifically alleging that they used paid shills to go out on dates with their customers, and to write them romantic email.

Online personal dating services pad their ad inventory with fake ads, and use employees as “date bait”, contends both a Match.com law suit and a Yahoo Personals law suit.

The Russian dating scam works like this: a Russian woman, or someone in Russia claiming to be a woman, contacts a man on one of the online dating sites, draws him into an online relationship, and then hits him up for money “for a plane ticket to come be with you.”

Security experts are reporting that a new worm called Hagbard.A is posing as a pirated version of the popular and now scandal-plagued game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Riding the wave of publicity which Rockstar Game’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has received in the past weeks due to the…

Ok, now this is just too cute for words. There are all kinds of online dating models (not models dating online, calm down fellas), including the online dating service which performs criminal background checks, the poorly named

Lance Archibald appears to have everything. The thirty-one year old former collegiate basketballer has good looks, a great personality, a sense of humour, an MBA from Harvard, and a great job. What Lance Archibald doesn’t have is a wife, and apparently in the Mormon community to which he belongs, that’s…