Quote Originally Posted by Brosco
Without going through all posts to find all the quotes I need, I would like to summarize a little here. Oz, I can understand and accept that you believe that you need more. I would never try to convince you (or anyone else) that another can get all they need from an online relationship. My disagreement with you is that in several places you have taken your beliefs about yourself and stated them as fact for others. I have clearly stated that online is not for everyone, but attempted to explain how online is giving fantasssy and I all we need.
I guess what got me started was how the responses to my comment about my feelings... was disagreement. I read that as... "You're wrong for feeling that way." LOL So I probably was first to over react... but overall, and for the most part, I thought it a lively debate. I was just defending how I felt... not attacking how others felt, but admit to pressing your own comments in my own defense. Perhaps too much debate background...

I disagree with you on this. If I take your argument to its logical conclusion you are suggesting that a blind or deaf person is unable to have as satisfying a relationship as yourself. If you have ever had any dealings with a person who has lost one of their primary senses you quickly realise that their other senses have increased in capacity, the loss in one area is fully compensated by the other.
Hardly the "logical conclusion." But certainly a possible conclusion. I wouldn't say that a person who lacks or has lost one of the primary senses can't have a satisfying relationship. But I would say, without prejudice, it is different than what I experience. Who's to say it isn't in fact, better... save that, as I pointed out to Tojo, language is qualitative. Perhaps, an enhanced sense of touch provides a superior interaction.

Recent health studies point out the benefits of sex with a partner provides a health benefit that mere solo sexual release doesn't duplicate. It just supports my belief that evolution has made us a social animal, one that requires contact.