# Ever have an online fling?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956 "2016-07-02T21:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/21 "2016-07-05T01:06:57Z")

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Note that I’m incredibly bored. Slightly horny, but mostly bored.

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**Author:** ![Polly\_Pointless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Polly\_Pointless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Pointless)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/22 "2016-07-05T01:20:41Z")

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Are we talking about virtual cheating on a spouse or significant other? Nope.

If we are talking cybersex and/or telephone sex? Yup.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/23 "2016-07-05T02:17:47Z")

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both, I guess.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/24 "2016-07-05T10:25:16Z")

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Or either. Maybe some reassurance that others have done it, too. Not getting a lot.

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/25 "2016-07-05T15:09:30Z")

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I did back in 2005. My then marriage was falling apart, we had not had any kind of sexual relations in years. Through Yahoo personals, I began a year long online relationship with a gal that lived only 10 miles from me. She was separated from her husband, he would not give her the divorce she wanted. I finally had enough of my situation and my now ex and I went our separate ways. We finally met face to face, she told me she was giving her husband a second chance. I didn’t look back, I got the divorce I wanted, really enjoyed being single and playing the field for a while then met my current wife and have never been happier.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-an-online-fling/758956/26 "2016-07-07T00:27:59Z")

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Aren’t these called emotional affairs?

As for this -

> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> you think she is a 30 something beautiful woman. In reality, she is a 75 year old, 500 hundred pound, pasty white man, with a bald head, and nose and ear hair.

Yikes!!!

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