Open to Online Dating? Affluent Men Looking for Real Love Online, survey shows
Photo: Francois Etienne Du Plessis
“It’s clear that men want more than just sex when they turn to online dating. They want a real connection. They want to find ‘that special one’,” says Larry Cervantes, Chief Communications Officer at AnastasiaDate, a leading international dating service that facilitates exciting and romantic companionship with beautiful and interesting women from all over the world.
In a recent press release, the Russian and American based company AnastasiaDate shared the following interesting information from an online survey:
You would think that when a man goes online to use a “dating” website that he’s looking for one thing and one thing only. However, it turns out that most such men aren’t looking for sex. According to a new survey conducted online in July and August by Harris Interactive on behalf of the leading international dating site, AnastasiaDate.com, 70 percent of men ages 35 – 55* who are open to dating online have the intention of finding a serious relationship.
The poll, which surveyed over 500 men between the ages of 35 and 55 with an annual household income of $100,000 or more, an associate’s degree or higher and an interest in women, revealed that, of those who have dated or are open to dating online, 45 percent list looking for a potential marriage partner as a relationship objective of online dating. 57 percent of men list seeking companionship, while only 31 percent list using online dating sites looking purely for sex.
Furthermore, the study reveals that the majority of men ages 35-55 can be romantics willing to make an effort for a big payoff: the AnastasiaDate survey revealed that 78 percent of these men are open to dating a woman outside the U.S. and half would definitely or probably travel to see a woman from another country that they met online and with whom they had a connection.
Surprisingly, the data show that not only are the majority of affluent men in this age range NOT online trolling for sex, but 39 percent say that they could fall for someone that they have never even met in person, while 64 percent say that they could fall for someone with whom they have never had sex.
So what are these men hoping to get from online dating, in addition to companionship?
- 85 percent of those who have dated or are open to dating online believe they can find something online that they aren’t currently getting in their lives
- 52 percent believe that what is missing from their lives and can be found through online dating is true companionship
- 30 percent believe they are missing physical attraction from their lives
- 27 percent think they are missing interesting and exotic experiences
- 27 percent are hoping that dating online will introduce them to someone with a different background then their own.
This leads us to this weekend’s DUNIA poll:
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