Topic : 03/27 Fifteen Minutes of Fame

What I want to ask Brian is what is planning to tell his wife one their wedding night? "I'm so sorry I couldn't wait for you because I wanted to be famous and lose my virginity on national TV." I can't imagine any girl possibly wanting to marry someone who's willing to sell himself short on national TV. Or at least have a lasting marriage. That act right there is a sign that Brian's not willing to wait for what's worth it. He wants to sell himself short for what feels right in the moment. That's not attractive at all. Good luck on your future dating night.

Well...you do realize that online you can have your heart into a few relationships. It doesn't have to be "a multitude"...

"I truly believe that a real friendship must be tested and tried - something a phone line cannot allow for."

I can't agree there. I have had my online friendships tested and tried, just as my "real" ones.

This is how many SAHM's have social lives now. I love it. And these people aren't strangers to me. Some I have been talking to for nearly a year now on this board, others for years beyond that. I would welcome them into my house and not feel odd about it at all.

Anyway...:o)

This comment is for the young gentleman who is considering losing his virginity on a reality TV show.   You made the comment that doing this will give you confidents, however do you think being called the "second man" or anything along those lines will give you confidents?   I'm only asking because the first time a man losses his virginity doesn't last that long, so most of the time you already feel badly.  Yet doing it on a public venue so everyone else can laugh will be nothing but bad for your self-confidence.   Plus, in the world we live in you will never be able to forget this because it will always be around.   One day if you decide to have kids they might find it and how are you going to go about explaining to them to have morals and standards, when you showed you didn't.   Also, what respectable female will have you long-term after you have done this?   I just thought you might like a female's opinions on this matter before you do something you might (most likely) regret.

Um.... I was being sarcastic. I should know better here.

ppl need to stop spelling out R E S P E C T - it's unnecessary and horribly overused.

LOL...too true!

So, just curious...You believe that a real friendship can exist without any physical, face to face contact - and I am excluding a webcam as such. 

 

Not to be a negative person, but kids feel that way about the predators they talk to online - those folks that say what needs to be said, not what the truth is. 

 

How do you test an online relationship?   It's all about words.  Actions make a relationship.  Even in face to face relationships, words can be meaningless if the actions do not support them. 

 

I enjoy the convenience of the internet, being able to email my family and friends while in my pj's and at all hours of the day/night but it's the voice, the face, the proximity to a human that makes the relationship what it is.  You can put all the cute litte symbols and such in there and type for days, but that smile from someone who knows you - warts and all - is all it takes some days to make the world safe. 

"Not to be a negative person, but kids feel that way about the predators they talk to online - those folks that say what needs to be said, not what the truth is. "

Yeah, and kids feel that way about real life predators to.

"How do you test an online relationship?   It's all about words.  Actions make a relationship.  Even in face to face relationships, words can be meaningless if the actions do not support them. "

It's hard to explain, you are more than welcomed to come and visit a board on here where we consider ourselves friends. There are several around here, communities of people with things in common. You talk, you share your life, you trust, and you begin to love a person. It's not totally the same, I know, but it's it's own thing. 

I guess I don't know what you mean by actions. I have sent and received gifts on occasion with these other women. We have spoken on the phone. We have been there to "hold hands" emotionally through illness, death...depression...we have cried tears for each other. Even laughed until someone peed their pants! These are all actions.

I just have to disagree with you. A relationship isn't about the physical, it's about trust and honesty.

Trust me, my online friends have taken me, warts and all.  When you can't see a smile from someone, but feel it in their words...that is an amazing gift...I think anyway. Online relationships happen, they aren't how you think of them or portray them. These women on these boards know me deeper than my own parents, than my brothers, than anyone I have ever known except my husband.

I must borrow that from a friend of mine, she told me she would lend it to me after I mentioned it to her, sounds like a good one.

Through the ages, there was nothing like a Christian being torn apart by a lion ( among other things ), or a couple of gladiators shredding each other ( parallels with WWE only without the blood and death) to entertain the masses.  And a Saturday afternoon, take the kids to see a public execution, whether it was a " Witch" being burned at the stake, or a public hanging, these things happened, for those who don't belive it.

I think what bothers me the most, is we are on a slippery slope toward the same forms of entertainment (how many out there would like to see a public execution of someone, I am sure there are a few whether they care to admit it or not ) our children and teens EMULATE this stuff ( how many parents have seen the Jackass or Bumfights videos ? Bet many of your teens have, but they aren't going to tell you about it )  this guy losing his virginity on TV, half of North America will be tuned in, Sex is another form of entertainment otherwise there would be no need for the XXX ratings, no demand, no supply.

So now that Fear Factor and Survivor have lost their edge in the "Reality TV" saturated networks, it should scare people to think what they will come up with next to get your viewing, and to keep up their ratings.

At today's show, a guy is willing to lose his virginity on national TV.  I am just wondering how guys can prove that they are really a virgin.