Quote Originally Posted by EDMUNDOSLOTH
Brosco
I have a right to state my opinion-indeed you asked me to by posting thread.
Understand Ed, you have the right to any opinion, you have the right to disagree with me, you have the right to even pass stupid concepts as opinion, and I will not object. My only objection is with your previous posts where you stated opinion as fact. The fact that I posted an opinion does not give the right for another to attack me or my views. Just as you should not be attacked for stating your views. But I do seriously object to some of your post:

I have been participating in the general goings-on in this site for a very short time and have not come across chatrooms or role play areas before,
Online relationships are not roleplay - do not diminish them as such.

but I have come to see I cannot truly believe that a fully-formed human being can be satisfied by an on-line relationship.
If anyone can see that as anything but offensive I would like to see how!

I can grasp that on one level role-playing will provide a certain pleasure and form of escape.
again, a real relationship is dismisssed as roleplaying in your mind. You are commenting on somethingh beyond your comprehension.

I say role playing because this is what an on-line relationship must be.
... and your source of reference is???? your lack of knowledge and experience truly shows.

It is not real. It does not involve body language and contact. It is devoid of most things that define us as human.
fantasssy has already shown your definition of human failed. I noticed you failed to respond to her.

We have five senses and they are all used in a relationship of true depth
So therefore a person that has lost one sense, say hearing or sight, is incapable of having a satisfying relationship?

I will not subscribe to the way of thinking that says electronic transmissions of our intentions can be a substitute. Merely an imitation.
I accept that it won't work for you, but don't call it an imitation for all others.

I will agree that such contact can be auto-erotic. The ideas sent out providing the sender with a thrill more than the recipiant. If you cannot actually see, hear, touch, smell or taste the other you can rely solely upon their statements-which you interpret from the written word alone and your own statements of feelings
solely the written word???? do you have a clue about the topic you are responding to?

For what are two typists doing other than describing the way they wish their senses to react? Is it not better to actually have the senses stimulated?
again..., do you know anything about this topic?

Please lets have clear division between reality and fantasy.
Again, very offensive to imply I only have fantasy. Are you so limited in r/l that you wont use fantasy? I know I do in online, but that doesn't make all online fantasy.

What we read here is far removed from everyday life.
Really??? I know several ppl in r/l relationships that use this because of busy work schedules, business travel etc.

I do not say that an on-line relationship is bad. I do point out that it is a pale substitute for a human one.
It may be a pale substitute for you, in fact I feel sorry for you that you are incapable of adding it to your relatioinship, but regardless, just because something is inferior to you, does not make it so for others.

I have absolutely no problem with your disagreement with me. You are fully entitled to your opinion, but I am entitled to mine. And while you may argue against any opinion I hold, that does not give you the right to criticise me for my beliefs. I repeat:

but I have come to see I cannot truly believe that a fully-formed human being can be satisfied by an on-line relationship.
is a particularly offensive statement. I am a fully formed human being that has openly posted my views here for all to see. If you could not understand, all you had to do was ask.. but instead you just diminished and ridiculed.

Brosco