It was bad enough when, seven years ago (and then reprised during the DVD and TV releases), the film remake of Pride and Prejudice and subsequent, brief, mainstream interest in Jane Austen novels seemed to turn a sizeable proportion of the heterosexual dating scene into clones: "looking for my mr darcy" their match.com profiles would proclaim.
It's 2012 and the bestselling "mommy porn" of 50 Shades of Grey has become the source of inspiration for those "WLTM" imaginations.
This post answers some of the feedback and comments I received in response to my Internet Dating: A Personal Review post yesterday. First of all I should reiterate: my experience of Internet dating was, overall, positive. However all is not well in the state of Internet dating. The market is awash with near-clone-sites, operating nearly identical business models, and with pricing so closely matched I struggle to keep the word “cartel” out of my mind.
