Was talking to a friend that says he has 'sex' with his girlfriend who lives in Europe through ichat. Now, in theory this sounds like a pretty hot concept - not specifically in my friend's case as I've seen his girlfriend, and she looks like something you'd find in a live bait store, but GENERALLY speaking. The only hitch is the photo quality is so grim. I don't care how attractive you are, you always wind up looking like a hostage.
I've never tried the whole mutual masturbation ichat thing, but I could see how it might be a depressing proposition. You would think with all the advanced technology out there, they'd come up with a more sophisticated web-camera. How can you properly get in the mood when it looks like you’re jerking off to someone in the cargo hold of some intergalactic space barge broadcasting out of the Crab Nebulla. Still, perhaps I’m wrong…maybe it would actually add to the proceedings, maybe give it a kind of sketchy basement porn feel to it.
Sometimes I see people use webcam shots on their profile pics or myspace. This to me is really the height of laziness. You mean to tell me THIS is the best photo you have? You couldn’t get someone to take one for you? I think the only thing worse is when you see someone taking a shot of themselves in the bathroom mirror. There's just something so dismal about it.
Curiously though, in a way that whole stark and lonely gestalt kind of ties in to the somewhat elicit nature of internet dating.
Even though internet dating has become ‘mainstream’, there is STILL that slight stigma attached to it. People continue to associate it with men in trench coats, looking for Mr. GoodBar, and sleazy, empty and fumbling sexual encounters.
ichat masturbation, hostage shots, internet dating - it is all connected I tell you.
Grim.
There is one person that does look good in webcam shots though....
my cat.
