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Online dating (or Internet dating) is a system that enables people to find and introduce themselves to potential connections over the Internet, usually with the goal of developing personal, romantic, or sexual relationships. An online dating service is a company that provides specific mechanisms (generally websites or software applications) for online dating through the use of Internet-connected personal computers or mobile devices. Such companies offer a wide variety of unmoderatedmatchmaking services, most of which are profile-based.

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Online dating services allow users to become 'members' by creating a profile and uploading personal information including (but not limited to) age, gender, sexual orientation, location, and appearance. Most services also encourage members to add photos or videos to their profile. Once a profile has been created, members can view the profiles of other members of the service, using the visible profile information to decide whether or not to initiate contact. Most services offer digital messaging, while others provide additional services such as webcasts, online chat, telephone chat (VOIP), and message boards. Members can constrain their interactions to the online space, or they can arrange a date to meet in person.

A great diversity of online dating services currently exists. Some have a broad membership base of diverse users looking for many different types of relationships. Other sites target highly specific demographics based on features like shared interests, location, religion, sexual orientation or relationship type. Online dating services also differ widely in their revenue streams. Some sites are completely free and depend on advertising for revenue. Others utilize the freemium revenue model, offering free registration and use, with optional, paid, premium services.^[1] Still others rely solely on paid membership subscriptions.

Matching algorithms

In 2012, social psychologists Benjamin Karney, Harry Reis, and others published an analysis of online dating in Psychological Science in the Public Interest that concluded that the matching algorithms of online dating services are only negligibly better at matching people than if they were matched at random.^[2][3] In 2014, Kang Zhao at the University of Iowa constructed a new approach based on the algorithms used by Amazon and Netflix, based on recommendations rather than the autobiographical notes of match seekers. Users' activities reflect their tastes and attractiveness, or the lack thereof, they reasoned. This algorithm increases the chances of a response by 40%, the researchers found. E-commerce firms also employ this 'collaborative filtering' technique. Nevertheless, it is still not known what the algorithm for finding the perfect match would be.^[4]

However, while collaborative filtering and recommender systems have been demonstrated to be more effective than matching systems based on similarity and complementarity,^[5][6][7] they have also been demonstrated to be highly skewed to the preferences of early users and against racial minorities such as African Americans and Hispanic Americans which led to the rise of niche dating sites for those groups.^[8][9][10] In 2014, the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division criticized eHarmony's claims of creating a greater number of marriages and more durable and satisfying marriages than alternative dating websites,^[11] and in 2018, the Advertising Standards Authority banned eHarmony advertisements in the United Kingdom after the company was unable to provide any evidence to verify its advertisements' claims that its website's matching algorithm was scientifically proven to give its users a greater chance of finding long-term intimate relationships.^[12][13]

In 2016, Consumer Reports surveyed approximately 115,000 online dating service subscribers across multiple platforms and found that while 44 percent of survey respondents stated that usage of online dating services led to a serious long-term intimate relationship or marriage,^[14] a subset of approximately 9,600 subscribers that had used at least one online dating service within the previous two years rated satisfaction with the services they used lower than Consumer Reports surveys of technical support service consumers for those services and rated satisfaction with free online dating services as slightly more satisfactory than services with paid subscriptions.^[15][16]

Trends

Social trends and public opinions

Opinions and usage of online dating services also differ widely. A 2005 study of data collected by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that individuals are more likely to use an online dating service if they use the Internet for a greater number of tasks, and less likely to use such a service if they are trusting of others.^[17] It is possible that the mode of online dating resonates with some participants' conceptual orientation towards the process of finding a romantic partner. That is, online dating sites use the conceptual framework of a 'marketplace metaphor' to help people find potential matches, with layouts and functionalities that make it easy to quickly browse and select profiles in a manner similar to how one might browse an online store. Under this metaphor, members of a given service can both 'shop' for potential relationship partners and 'sell' themselves in hopes of finding a successful match.^[18]

Attitudes towards online dating improved visibly between 2005 and 2015, the Pew Research Center found. In particular, the number of people who thought that online dating was a good way to meet people rose from 44% in 2005 to 59% in 2015 whereas those who believed that people to used online dating services were desperate fell from 29% to 23% during the same period. Although only a negligible number of people dated online in 2005, that rose to 11% in 2013 and then 15% in 2015.^[19] In particular, the number of American adults who had used an online dating site went from 9% in 2013 to 12% in 2015 while those who used an online dating software application on their mobile phones jumped from 3% to 9% during the same period.^[20] This increase was driven mainly by people aged 18 to 24, for whom usage almost tripled. At the same time, usage among those between the ages of 55 and 64 doubled. People in their mid-30s to mid-50s all saw noticeable increases in usage, but people aged 25 to 34 saw no change. Nevertheless, only one in three had actually gone out on a date with someone they met online. About one in five, especially women, at 30%, compared to 16% for men, asked for help with their online profile. Only five out of a hundred said they were married to or in a committed long-term relationship with someone they met online. For comparison, 88% of Americans who were with their current spouse or partner for no more than five years said their met their mates offline.^[19]

Online daters may have more liberal social attitudes compared to the general population in the United States.^[21] According to a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, people who had used online dating services had a higher opinion of such services than those who had not. 80% of the users said that online dating sites are a good way to meet potential partners, compared to 55% of non-users. In addition, online daters felt that online dating is easier and more efficient than other methods (61%), and gives access to a larger pool of potential partners (62%), compared to 44% and 50% of non-users, respectively. Meanwhile, 60% of non-users thought that online dating was a more dangerous way of meeting people and 24% deemed people who dated online were desperate, compared to 45% and 16% of online daters, respectively. Nevertheless, a similar number of online daters (31%) and non-users (32%) agreed that online dating kept people from settling down. In all, there was little difference among the sexes with regards to their opinions on online dating. Safety was, however, the exception, with 53% of women and only 38% of men expressing concern.^[20]

It is not clear that social networking websites and online dating services are leading to the formation of long-term intimate relationships more efficiently. In 2000, a majority of U.S. households had personal computers, and in 2001, a majority of U.S. households had internet access.^[22] In 1995, Match.com was created, followed by eHarmony in 2000, Myspace and Plenty of Fish in 2003, Facebook and OkCupid in 2004, Zoosk in 2007, and Tinder in 2012. In 2011, the percentage of all U.S. adults who were married declined to a historic low at 51 percent,^[23] while from 2007 to 2017 the percentage of U.S. adults living without spouses or partners rose to 42 percent (including 61 percent of adults under the age of 35) because declines in marriage since 1960 (when 72 percent of U.S. adults were married) have not been offset by increases in cohabitation.^[24][25][26] In 2014, the percentage of U.S. adults above the age of 25 who had never married rose to a record one-fifth (with the rate of growth in the category accelerating since 2000).^[27] Additionally, psychologists Douglas T. Kenrick, Sara E. Gutierres, Laurie L. Goldberg, Steven Neuberg, Kristin L. Zierk, and Jacquelyn M. Krones have demonstrated experimentally that following exposure to photographs or stories about desirable potential mates, human subjects decrease their ratings of commitment to their current partners,^[28][29] while social psychologist David Buss has estimated that approximately 30 percent of the men on Tinder are married,^[30] and a significant criticism of Facebook has been its effect on its users' marriages.

Mate preferences and mating strategies

Online dating services offer goldmines of information for social scientists studying human mating behavior.^[31][32][33]

Data from the Chinese online dating giant Zhenai.com reveals that while men are most interested in how a woman looks, women care more about a man's income. Profession is also quite important. Chinese men favor women working as primary school teachers and nurses while Chinese women prefer men in the IT or finance industry. Women in IT or finance are the least desired. Zhenai enables users to send each other digital 'winks.' For a man, the more money he earns the more 'winks' he receives. For a woman, her income does not matter until the 50,000-yuan mark (US$7,135), after which the number of 'winks' falls slightly. Men typically prefer women three years younger than they are whereas women look for men who are three years older on average. However, this changes if the man becomes exceptionally wealthy; the more money he makes the more likely he is to look for younger women.^[31]

In general, people in their 20s employ the 'self-service dating service' while women in their late 20s and up tend to use the matchmaking service. This is because of the social pressure in China on 'leftover women,' meaning those in their late 20s but still not married. Women who prefer not to ask potentially embarrassing questions – such as whether both spouses will handle household finances, whether or not they will live with his parents, or how many children he wants to have, if any – will get a matchmaker to do it for them. Both sexes prefer matchmakers who are women.^[31]

In a 2009 paper, sociologist George Yancey from the University of North Texas observed that prior research from the late 1980s to the early 2000s revealed that African-Americans were the least desired romantic partners compared to all other racial groups in the United States, a fact that is reflected in their relatively low interracial marriage rates. (They were also less likely to form interracial friendships than other groups.) According to data from the U.S. Census, 5.4% of all marriages in the U.S. in 2005 were between people of different races. For his research, Yancey downloaded anonymized data of almost a thousand heterosexual individuals from Yahoo! Personals. He discovered that Internet daters felt lukewarm towards racial exogamy in general. In particular, 45.8% of whites, 32.6% of blacks, 47.6% of Hispanics, and 64.4% of Asians were willing to out-date with any other racial group. Dating members of one's own racial group was the most popular option, at 98.0% for whites, 92.1% for blacks, 93.2% for Hispanics, and 92.2% for Asians. Those who were more willing to out-date than average tended to be younger men. Education was not a predictor of willingness to out-date. This means that the higher interracial marriage rates among the highly educated were due to the fact that higher education provided more opportunities to meet people of different races.^[34]

There is, however, great variation along gender lines. In 2008, Cynthia Feliciano, Belinda Robnett, and Golnaz Komaie from the University of California, Irvine, investigated the preferences of online daters long gendered and racial lines by selecting profiles on Yahoo! Personals – then one of the top Internet romance sites in the U.S.– of 6,070 heterosexual individuals, 1558 of whom white, between the ages of 18 and 50 living within 50 miles (80 km) of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta. They found that consistent with prior research, including speed-dating studies, women tended to be pickier than men. In fact, while 29% of white men wanted to date only white women, 64% of white women were willing to date white men only. Of those who stated a racial preference, 97% of white men excluded black women, 48% Latinas, and 53% Asian women. In contrast, white men are excluded by 76% of black women, 33% Latinas, and only 11% Asian women. Similarly, 92% of white women exclude black men, 77% exclude Latinos, and 93% exclude Asian men. 71% of black men, 31% of Latinos, and 36% of Asian men excluded white women. In short, after opposite-sex members of their own group, white men were open to dating Asian women, and white women black men than members of other racial or ethnic groups. At the same time, Latinos were generally favored by both white men and women willing to out-date.^[35]

Feliciano, Robnett, and Komaie found that white women who described themselves as athletic, average, fit, or slim were more likely to exclude black men than those who considered themselves large, thick, or voluptuous. Body type, however, was not a predictor for white women's avoidance of Asian men, nor was it for the white men's preferences. On the other hand, white men with a particular body type in mind were considerably more likely to exclude black women while women who preferred a particular height were slightly more likely to exclude Asian men. Women who deemed themselves very liberal or liberal were less likely than apolitical, moderate, or conservative women to exclude black men. In contrast, left-leaning white women were slightly more likely to exclude Asian men. Being Jewish was the perfect predictor of black exclusion. All white men and women who identified as Jewish and who had a racial preference excluded blacks, and all white Jewish women also avoided Asian men. White men with a religious preference were four times as likely to exclude black women, and white women with the same were twice as likely to exclude black men. However, religious preferences were not linked to avoiding Asians.^[35]

Prior research has shown that in the absence of direct personal contact, one's perception of members of a different group is often shaped by stereotypes, or 'cognitive structures that contain the perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and expectancies about some human group,' which are typically reinforced by mass media. Feliciano, Robnett, and Komaie found some support for this. In particular, white men's exclusion of black women was linked to the perception that black women deviate from (Western) idealized notions of femininity, for example by being bossy, while their favoring Asian women was likely due to the latter's portrayal in the media as 'the embodiment of perfect womanhood' and 'good wives.' On the other hand, white women's exclusion of Asian men correlated with the stereotype that the latter were asexual or lacked masculinity whereas their preferring black men corresponded with the latter's positive portrayal in the media as 'independent and respected.' Feliciano, Robnett, and Komaie observed that their findings on mate preferences mirrored actual cohabitation and marriage patterns.^[35]

In a separate paper from 2011 analyzing the same data set, Cynthia Feliciano and Belinda Robnett found in general, gender was a predictor of openness to dating outside of one's racial or ethnic group, with 74% of women and 58% of men stating a racial preference, though there was considerable variation among each. Latinos were quite open to out-dating, with only 15% of men and 16% of women preferring to date only other Latinos. 45% of black women and 23% of black men would rather not date non-blacks. 6% of Asian women and 21% of Asian men decided against out-dating. In addition, 4% of white women, 8% of black women, 16% of Latino women, and 40% of Asian women wanted to date only outside of their respective race or ethnicity. Therefore, all groups except white women were willing to out-date, albeit with great variations. 55% of Latino men excluded Asian women while 73% of Asian women excluded Latino men. An overwhelming majority of Asians, 94%, excluded blacks. By contrast, 81% of Latinos and 76% of Latinas avoided the same. For blacks willing to out-date, Latinos were most preferred.^[36]

In 2018, Elizabeth Bruch and M.E.J. Newman from the University of Michigan published in the journal Science Advances a study of approximately 200,000 heterosexual individuals living in New York City, Chicago, Boston and Seattle, who used a certain 'popular, free online-dating service.' The researchers were able to discern some general trends in the overall desirability of a given individual. For a man, his desirability increased till the age of 50; for a woman, her desirability declined steeply after the age of 18 till the age of 65. In terms of educational attainment, the more educated a man was, the more desirable he became; for a woman, however, her desirability rose up to the bachelor's degree before declining. Bruch suggested that besides individual preferences and partner availability, this pattern may be due to the fact that by the late 2010s, women were more likely to attend and graduate from university.^[37] In order to estimate the desirability of a given individual, the researchers looked at the number of messages they received and the desirability of the senders.^[38]

Developmental psychologist Michelle Drouin, who was not involved in the study, told TheNew York Times this finding is in accordance with theories in psychology and sociology based on biological evolution in that youth is a sign of fertility. She added that women with advanced degrees are often viewed as more focused on their careers than family.^[37] Licensed psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser told MarketWatch men typically prefer younger women because 'they are more easy to impress; they are more (moldable) in terms of everything from emotional behavior to what type of restaurant to eat at,' and because they tend to be 'more fit, have less expectations and less baggage.' On the other hand, women look for (financial) stability and education, attributes that come with age, said Kaiser.^[39] These findings regarding age and attractiveness are consistent with earlier research by the online dating services OKCupid and Zoosk.^[37][39] In an 2010 blog post, OKCupid observed that, 'The median 30-year-old man spends as much time messaging teenage girls as he does women his own age.'^[37] By analyzing data from between 2013 and 2017, OKCupid discovered that 61% what they called 'successful' conversations, or those with 'at least at four messages back and forth with contact exchange' took place between a man who was older than the woman. In half of these, the man was at least five years older. 2018 data from Zoosk revealed that 60% of men desired younger women, while 56% of younger women felt attracted to older men.^[39]

Aided by the text-analysis program Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, Bruch and Newman discovered that men generally had lower chances of receiving a response after sending more 'positively worded' messages.^[39] When a man tried to woo a woman more desirable than he was, he received a response 21% of the time; by contrast, when a woman attempted to court a man, she received a reply about half the time.^[38] In fact, over 80% of the first messages in the data set obtained for the purposes of the study were from men, and women were highly selective in choosing whom to respond to, a rate of less than 20%. Therefore, studying women's replies yielded much insight into their preferences.^[32] Bruch and Newman were also able to establish the existence of dating 'leagues'.^[39] Generally speaking, people were able to accurately estimate where they ranked on the dating hierarchy. Very few responded to the messages of people less desirable than they were.^[32] Nevertheless, although the probability of a response is low, it is well above zero, and if the other person does respond, it can a self-esteem booster, said Kaiser.^[39] Co-author of the study Mark Newman told BBC News, 'There is a trade-off between how far up the ladder you want to reach and how low a reply rate you are willing to put up with.'^[38] Bruch and Newman found that while people spent a lot of time crafting lengthy messages to those they considered to be a highly desirable partner, this hardly made a difference, judging by the response rate. Keeping messages concise is well-advised. Previous studies also suggest that about 70% of the dating profile should be about oneself and the rest about the desired partner.^[38]

At least three quarters of the sample surveyed attempted to date aspirationally, meaning they tried to initiate a relationship with someone who was more desirable, 25% more desirable, to be exact. Bruch recommended sending out more greeting messages, noting that people sometimes managed to upgrade their 'league'. Michael Rosenfeld, a sociologist not involved with the study, told The Atlantic, 'The idea that persistence pays off makes sense to me, as the online-dating world has a wider choice set of potential mates to choose from. The greater choice set pays dividends to people who are willing to be persistent in trying to find a mate.'^[32] Using optimal stopping theory, one can show that the best way to select the best potential partner is to reject the first 37%, then pick the one who is better than the previous set. The probability of picking the best potential mate this way is 37%.^[40] (This is approximately the reciprocal of Euler's number, ${\displaystyle e=\underset{x\to 0}{lim}(1+x{)}^{1/x}\approx 2.718281828}$. See derivation of the optimal policy.) However, making online contact is only the first step, and indeed, most conversations failed to birth a relationship. As two potential partners interact more and more, the superficial information available from a dating website or smartphone application becomes less important than their characters.^[38] Bruch and Newman found that overall, white men and Asian women were the most desired in all the four cities.^[39]

Despite being a platform designed to be less centered on physical appearance,^[41]OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder stated in 2009 that the male OkCupid users who were rated most physically attractive by female OkCupid users received 11 times as many messages as the lowest-rated male users did, the medium-rated male users received about four times as many messages, and the one-third of female users who were rated most physically attractive by the male users received about two-thirds of all messages sent by male users.^[26] Data released by Tinder has shown that of the 1.6 billion swipes it records per day, only 26 million result in matches (a match rate of approximately only 1.63%), despite users logging into the app on average 11 times per day, with male user sessions averaging 7.2 minutes and female user sessions averaging 8.5 minutes (or 79.2 minutes and 93.5 minutes per day respectively).^[26] Also, a Tinder user interviewed anonymously in an article published in the December 2018 issue of The Atlantic estimated that only one in 10 of their matches actually resulted in an exchange of messages with the other user they were matched with, with another anonymous Tinder user saying, 'Getting right-swiped is a good ego boost even if I have no intention of meeting someone.'^[26]

According to University of Texas at Austin psychologist David Buss, 'Apps like Tinder and OkCupid give people the impression that there are thousands or millions of potential mates out there. One dimension of this is the impact it has on men's psychology. When there is ... a perceived surplus of women, the whole mating system tends to shift towards short-term dating,'^[42] and there is a feeling of disconnect when choosing future partners.^[43] In addition, the cognitive process identified by psychologist Barry Schwartz as the 'paradox of choice' (also referred to as 'choice overload' or 'fear of a better option') was cited in an article published in The Atlantic that suggested that the appearance of an abundance of potential partners causes online daters to be less likely to choose a partner and be less satisfied with their choices of partners.^[44][26]

Before 2012, most online dating services matched people according to their autobiographical information, such as interests, hobbies, future plans, among other things. But the advent of Tinder that year meant that first impressions could play a crucial role. For social scientists studying human courtship behavior, Tinder offers a much simpler environment than its predecessors. In 2016, Gareth Tyson of the Queen Mary University of London and his colleagues published a paper analyzing the behavior of Tinder users in New York City and London. In order to minimize the number of variables, they created profiles of white heterosexual people only. For each sex, there were three accounts using stock photographs, two with actual photographs of volunteers, one with no photos whatsoever, and one that was apparently deactivated. The researchers pointedly only used pictures of people of average physical attractiveness. Tyson and his team wrote an algorithm that collected the biographical information of all the matches, liked them all, then counted the number of returning likes.^[33]

They found that men and women employed drastically different mating strategies. Men liked a large proportion of the profiles they viewed, but received returning likes only 0.6% of the time; women were much more selective but received matches 10% of the time. Men received matches at a much slower rate than women. Once they received a match, women were far more likely than men to send a message, 21% compared to 7%, but they took more time before doing so. Tyson and his team found that for the first two-thirds of messages from each sex, women sent them within 18 minutes of receiving a match compared to five minutes for men. Men's first messages had an average of a dozen characters, and were typical simple greetings; by contrast, initial messages by women averaged 122 characters.^[33]

Tyson and his collaborators found that the male profiles that had three profile pictures received 238 matches while the male profiles with only one profile picture received only 44 matches (or approximately a 5 to 1 ratio). Additionally, male profiles that had a biography received 69 matches while those without received only 16 matches (or approximately a 4 to 1 ratio). By sending out questionnaires to frequent Tinder users, the researchers discovered that the reason why men tended to like a large proportion of the women they saw was to increase their chances of getting a match. This led to a feedback loop in which men liked more and more of the profiles they saw while women could afford to be even more selective in liking profiles because of a greater probability of a match. The mathematical limit of the feedback loop occurs when men like all profiles they see while women find a match whenever they like a profile. It was not known whether some evolutionarily stable strategy has emerged, nor has Tinder revealed such information.^[33]

Tyson and his team found that even though the men-to-women ratio of their data set was approximately one, the male profiles received 8,248 matches in total while the female profiles received only 532 matches in total because the vast majority of the matches for both the male and female profiles came from male profiles (with 86 percent of the matches for the male profiles alone coming from other male profiles), leading the researchers to conclude that homosexual men were 'far more active in liking than heterosexual women.' On the other hand, the deactivated male account received all of its matches from women. The researchers were not sure why this happened.^[33]

Niche dating sites

Sites with specific demographics have become popular as a way to narrow the pool of potential matches.^[45] Successful niche sites pair people by race, sexual orientation or religion.^[46] In March 2008, the top 5 overall sites held 7% less market share than they did one year ago while the top sites from the top five major niche dating categories made considerable gains.^[47] Niche sites cater to people with special interests, such as sports fans, racing and automotive fans, medical or other professionals, people with political or religious preferences, people with medical conditions, or those living in rural farm communities.

Some dating services have been created specifically for those living with HIV and other venereal diseases in an effort to eliminate the need to lie about one's health in order to find a partner.^[48] Public health officials in Rhode Island and Utah claimed in 2015 that Tinder and similar apps were responsible for uptick of such conditions.^[49]

Economic trends

Although some sites offer free trials and/or profiles, most memberships can cost upwards of $60 per month.^[50] In 2008, online dating services in the United States generated $957 million in revenue.^[51]

Most free dating websites depend on advertising revenue, using tools such as Google AdSense and affiliate marketing. Since advertising revenues are modest compared to membership fees, this model requires numerous page views to achieve profitability. However, Sam Yagan describes dating sites as ideal advertising platforms because of the wealth of demographic data made available by users.^[52]

Online matchmaking services

In 2008, a variation of the online dating model emerged in the form of introduction sites, where members have to search and contact other members, who introduce them to other members whom they deem compatible. Introduction sites differ from the traditional online dating model, and attracted many users and significant investor interest.^[53]

In China, the number of separations per a thousand couples doubled, from 1.46 in 2006 to about three in 2016, while the number of actual divorces continues to rise, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Demand for online dating services among divorcees keeps growing, especially in the large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. In addition, more and more people are expected to use online dating and matchmaking services as China continues to urbanize in the late 2010s and 2020s.^[31]

Reception

Trust and safety issues

As online dating services are not required to routinely conduct background checks on members, it is possible for profile information to be misrepresented or falsified.^[54][55][56] Also, there may be users on dating services that have bad intentions (i.e. date rape, procurement, ...).^[57][58][59]

One online dating service once introduced a real name policy, but that was later taken removed due to unpopularity with its users.^[60]

Only some online dating services are providing important safety information such as STD status of its users ^{[61][62][63][64]} or other infectious diseases, but many do not.

Some online dating services, which are popular in gay, bisexual trans and queer people^[65] are sometimes being used by people as a means of meeting these audiences for the purpose of gaybashing.^[66][67][68]

A form of misrepresentation is that members may lie about their height, weight, age, or marital status in an attempt to market or brand themselves in a particular way.^[69] Users may also carefully manipulate profiles as a form of impression management.^[70] Online daters have raised concerns about ghosting, the practice of ceasing all communication with a person without explaining why. Ghosting appears to be becoming more common.^[71] Various explanations have been suggested, but social media is often blamed,^[72] as are dating apps and the relative anonymity and isolation in modern-day dating and hookup culture, which make it easier to behave poorly with few social repercussions.^[73]

Online dating site members may try to balance an accurate representation with maintaining their image in a desirable way.^[74] One study found that nine out of ten participants had lied on at least one attribute, though lies were often slight; weight was the most lied about attribute, and age was the least lied about.^[75] Furthermore, knowing a large amount of superficial information about a potential partner's interests may lead to a false sense of security when meeting up with a new person.^[76] Gross misrepresentation may be less likely on matrimonials sites than on casual dating sites.^[77]

Some profiles may not even represent real humans but rather they may be fake 'bait profiles' placed online by site owners to attract new paying members, or 'spam profiles' created by advertisers to market services and products.

Opinions on regarding the safety of online dating are mixed. Over 50% of research participants in a 2011 study did not view online dating as a dangerous activity, whereas 43% thought that online dating involved risk.^[78]

Billing complaints

Online subscription-based services can suffer from complaints about billing practices. Some online dating service providers may have fraudulent membership fees or credit card charges.^[79] Some sites do not allow members to preview available profiles before paying a subscription fee. Furthermore, different functionalities may be offered to members who have paid or not paid for subscriptions, resulting in some confusion around who can view or contact whom.

Consolidation within the online dating industry has led to different newspapers and magazines now advertising the same website database under different names. In the UK, for example, Time Out ('London Dating'), The Times ('Encounters'), and The Daily Telegraph ('Kindred Spirits'), all offer differently named portals to the same service—meaning that a person who subscribes through more than one publication has unwittingly paid more than once for access to the same service.

Imbalanced gender ratios

Little is known about the sex ratio controlled for age. eHarmony's membership is about 57% female and 43% male,^[80] whereas the ratio at Match.com is about the reverse of that. When one gets into the specialty niche websites where the primary demographic is male, one typically gets a very unbalanced ratio of male to female or female to male.^[81] As of June 2015, 62% of Tinder users were male and 38% were female.^[82]

Studies have suggested that men are far more likely to send messages on dating sites than women.^[83] In addition, men tend to message the most attractive women regardless of their own attractiveness.^[84] This leads to the most attractive women on these sites receiving an overwhelming number of messages, which can in some cases result in them leaving the site.^{[citation needed]}

There is some evidence that there may be differences in how women online rate male attractiveness as opposed to how men rate female attractiveness. The distribution of ratings given by men of female attractiveness appears to be the normal distribution, while ratings of men given by women is highly skewed, with 80% of men rated as below average.^[85]

Allegations of discrimination

Gay rights groups have complained that certain websites that restrict their dating services to heterosexual couples are discriminating against homosexuals. Homosexual customers of the popular eHarmony dating website have made many attempts to litigate discriminatory practices.^[86] eHarmony was sued in 2007 by a lesbian claiming that '[s]uch outright discrimination is hurtful and disappointing for a business open to the public in this day and age.'^[87] In light of discrimination by sexual orientation by dating websites, some services such as GayDar.net and Chemistry.com cater more to homosexual dating.

Lawsuits filed against online dating services

A 2011 class action lawsuit alleged Match.com failed to remove inactive profiles, did not accurately disclose the number of active members, and does not police its site for fake profiles;^[88] the inclusion of expired and spam profiles as valid served to both artificially inflate the total number of profiles and camouflage a skewed gender ratio in which active users were disproportionately single males.^[89] The suit claimed up to 60 percent were inactive profiles, fake or fraudulent users.^[90] Some of the spam profiles were alleged to be using images of porn actresses, models, or people from other dating sites.^[91] Former employees alleged Match routinely and intentionally over-represented the number of active members on the website and a huge percentage were not real members but 'filler profiles'.^[92]

A 2012 class action against Successful Match ended with a November 2014 California jury award of $1.4 million in compensatory damages and $15 million in punitive damages.^[93] SuccessfulMatch operated a dating site for people with STDs, PositiveSingles, which it advertised as offering a 'fully anonymous profile' which is '100% confidential'.^[94] The company failed to disclose that it was placing those same profiles on a long list of affiliate site domains such as GayPozDating.com, AIDSDate.com, HerpesInMouth.com, ChristianSafeHaven.com, MeetBlackPOZ.com, HIVGayMen.com, STDHookup.com, BlackPoz.com, and PositivelyKinky.com.^[95] This falsely implied that those users were black, Christian, gay, HIV-positive or members of other groups with which the registered members did not identify.^[96][97][98] The jury found PositiveSingles guilty of fraud, malice, and oppression^[99] as the plaintiffs' race, sexual orientation, HIV status, and religion were misrepresented by exporting each dating profile to niche sites associated with each trait.^[100][101]

In 2013, a former employee sued adultery website Ashley Madison claiming repetitive strain injuries as creating 1000 fake profiles in one three week span 'required an enormous amount of keyboarding' which caused the worker to develop severe pain in her wrists and forearms.^[102] AshleyMadison's parent company, Avid Life Media, countersued in 2014, alleging the worker kept confidential documents, including copies of her 'work product and training materials.' The firm claimed the fake profiles were for 'quality assurance testing' to test a new Brazilian version of the site for 'consistency and reliability.'^[103]

In January 2014, an already-married Facebook user attempting to close a pop-up advertisement for Zoosk.com found that one click instead copied personal info from her Facebook profile to create an unwanted online profile seeking a mate, leading to a flood of unexpected responses from amorous single males.^[104]

In 2014, It's Just Lunch International was the target of a New York class action alleging unjust enrichment as IJL staff relied on a uniform, misleading script which informed prospective customers during initial interviews that IJL already had at least two matches in mind for those customers' first dates regardless of whether or not that was true.^[105]

In 2014, the US Federal Trade Commission fined UK-based JDI Dating (a group of 18 websites, including Cupidswand.com and FlirtCrowd.com)^[106] over US$600000, finding that 'the defendants offered a free plan that allowed users to set up a profile with personal information and photos. As soon as a new user set up a free profile, he or she began to receive messages that appeared to be from other members living nearby, expressing romantic interest or a desire to meet. However, users were unable to respond to these messages without upgrading to a paid membership ... [t]he messages were almost always from fake, computer-generated profiles — 'Virtual Cupids' — created by the defendants, with photos and information designed to closely mimic the profiles of real people.'^[107][108] The FTC also found that paid memberships were being renewed without client authorisation.

On June 30, 2014, co-founder and former marketing vice president of Tinder, Whitney Wolfe, filed a sexual harassment and sex discrimination suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against IAC-owned Match Group, the parent company of Tinder. The lawsuit alleged that her fellow executives and co-founders Rad and Mateen had engaged in discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation against her, while Tinder's corporate supervisor, IAC's Sam Yagan, did nothing.^[109] IAC suspended CMO Mateen from his position pending an ongoing investigation, and stated that it 'acknowledges that Mateen sent private messages containing 'inappropriate content,' but it believes Mateen, Rad and the company are innocent of the allegations'.^[110] In December 2018, The Verge reported that Tinder had dismissed Rosette Pambakian, the company's vice president of marketing and communication who had accused Tinder's former CEO Greg Blatt of sexual assault, along with several other employees who were part of the group of Tinder employees who had previously sued the Match Group for $2 billion.^[111]

Government regulation

U.S. government regulation of dating services began with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA)^[112] which took effect in March 2007 after a federal judge in Georgia upheld a challenge from the dating site European Connections. The law requires dating services meeting specific criteria—including having as their primary business to connect U.S. citizens/residents with foreign nationals—to conduct, among other procedures, sex offender checks on U.S. customers before contact details can be provided to the non-U.S. citizen. In 2008, the state of New Jersey passed a law which requires the sites to disclose whether they perform background checks.^[113]

In the People's Republic of China, using a transnational matchmaking agency involving a monetary transaction is illegal.^[114] The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men under the Republic Act 6955 (the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law) of June 13, 1990; this law is routinely circumvented by basing mail-order bride websites outside the country.^{[115][116][117]}

Singapore's Social Development Network is the governmental organization facilitating dating activities in the country. Singapore's government has actively acted as a matchmaker for singles for the past few decades, and thus only 4% of Singaporeans have ever used an online dating service, despite the country's high rate of internet penetration.^[118]

In December 2010, a New York State Law called the 'Internet Dating Safety Act' (S5180-A) went into effect that requires online dating sites with customers in New York State to warn users not to disclose personal information to people they do not know.^[119]

See also

• Stable marriage problem and the Gale–Shapley algorithm

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Further reading

• Khan, Khalid S.; Chaudhry, Sameer (March 17, 2017). 'An evidence-based approach to an ancient pursuit: systematic review on converting online contact into a first date'. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 20 (2): 48–56. doi:10.1136/ebmed-2014-110101. PMID25678447.
• Bruch, Elizabeth E.; Newman, M. E. J. (August 8, 2018). 'Aspirational pursuits of mates in online dating markets'. Social Sciences. Science Advances. 4 (8): eaap9815. arXiv:1808.04840. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.9815B. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aap9815. PMC6082652. PMID30101188.

In Dating My Daughter you’ll assume the role of a divorced father who hasn’t seen his daughter in years. Now that she’s 18 years old, she contacts you and tells you that she would like to have a “father-daughter” date with you. You’ll have the chance to get to know your daughter better, build a special relationship and why not, maybe convince her to have more “father-daughter” dates with you in the future…

We intend to give every main character in this VN a satisfying conclusion and to try and tie up as many loose ends as we can before the story ends. Preferably all of them!

The previous update contained quite a lot of drama with Cassandra finding out about your relationship with D, the tension between your daughter and her best friend Elena, modelling rival Tyra has unfinished business with D, adapting to living with your daughter and Georgina in your new house, and then the mysterious phone call just before the end of v31.

In this new release, we’ll find out who was on the other end of that phone call and what their intentions are, you will have a night out with both D and Jennifer (or just your daughter if you are not on the Jen path), and things heat up when Cassandra makes her intentions known to both of you.

Your daughter will also try some new things with you that she hasn’t previously and we will see another petal drop in this update, leaving us with just three petals remaining!

Another character who has been a stumbling block for you and your daughter will return to town. Any idea on who that might be?

And after the pregnancy scare at the start of this chapter, we can confirm to you that in this update, you will be able to knock Dee up which will have some implications for her career in the modelling industry (if you decide to do this).

Changes we’ve made
In the main menu on the Load Game screen, we have added the option to be able to skip through more than 12 pages of your saves at a time.
Previously you could only skip through one at a time after the ninth page.

$20 Tier Members Bonus Download Link

For $20 tier members – We have uploaded the images separately for you to download them all!

This is something that quite a number of our fans have requested recently and we will be doing the same for Sunshine Love for members of our highest tier.

Available in the Settings menu
If you haven’t seen this yet, for those that have the walkthrough, there is an option to enable an “In-Game Walkthrough” in the Settings menu.

Thanks to anyone who sent me or any of my team any errors that you found in the game.

With not much of a break in between working on both VN’s, we sometimes don’t have the time to go back and fix certain problems which is why this revision month is in place (to give us a chance to do that).

We want our games to be as perfect as we can possibly make them, and that doesn’t happen without your help.

So again, we thank you 😀

Animated Scenes:
– D handjob on the beach (two angles)
– D blowjob on the beach (two angles)
– Jen missionary sex with F on the beach (two angles)
– Jen riding F on the beach (two angles)
– D riding F on the beach (two angles)
– D riding F in the car (three angles)
– D riding F reverse cowgirl (two angles)
– D riding F reverse cowgirl with Georgina (two angles)
– D riding F reverse cowgirl with Elena (two angles)
– D riding F reverse cowgirl with Jennifer (two angles)
– D and F sixty-nine position + Cassandra and D dual blowjob (two angles)
– Cassandra blowjob + D grinding (two angles)
– D and Cassandra sixty-nine position + F and Cassandra doggy position (two angles)
– D and F standing sex + Cassandra ball sucking (two angles)
– Cassandra and D dual blowjob

In-game Walkthrough Code: notoriety

v0.31
About this update
After my team and I played the beta versions of this release and we went over the content numerous times, we’re pretty satisfied that we’ve covered quite a lot, given screen time for all the main characters, and above all else, progressed the love story between F and D.
This update also contains scenes for Elena, Georgina, Cassandra, and Jennifer!
Elena has now settled into college life in Seaside but despite her busy schedule with studying, she wants to focus on spending some quality time with you and your daughter.
You’ll get to see some of that in this update.
Georgina is now working full-time and living with you and Dee, but what about the future? What about marriage and maybe adding “more” to your sweet little threesome?
How could you possibly make this work with both of them?
And what about Cassandra? After the way the last update ended, will she keep your special relationship with your daughter a secret?
Will Cassandra want to continue working with you both? If you’re on her path, how will this change Cassandra’s feelings towards you and D?
As mentioned above, Jennifer will feature, however, the scene in which she features is building up to what happens when you see her in the next update (an evening scene in v32).
We have a small scene with Martin (he’ll feature more towards the end of the story), and we’ve also included a character that will be very familiar to you all in a scene that happens later in this update. You won’t want to miss that scene!
For those of you who are on multiple paths, we are slowly starting to mesh them together from this update onwards.
So if you have been wondering what it would be like to have a relationship with not one, but two other women at the same time while you are dating your daughter, you’ll soon find out how we will make these combinations work! 😉
At the end of Chapter 3 and also the start of this final chapter, we saw D and F waiting to find out if they were pregnant.
As we know now, they aren’t, but we have been leaving clues in the story and also the walkthrough that getting D pregnant will be something you will be able to do for real! Keep your eyes peeled for further clues and options on the screen that can determine whether you decide you want to have a baby with her or not.
Changes we’ve made

In the settings menu, we have added the option to change the style of writing on your screen. It’s something we offered as an option for Melody and Sunshine Love, but not for DMD until now.
You can now also add a description to your saves. Because we started a new chapter, it wasn’t a default option in the game settings so we’ve had to create it for you.

v0.29.1
• Having anal sex for the first time now results in a different scene than if you were already on the anal path (Day 35)
• The final renders of the F/D/Georgina threesome now properly reflect whether F climaxed in D, Georgina, or both of them (Day 38)
• Added a sex scene featuring the MC, Elena, and Jennifer (Day 40)
• The sex scene with Georgina now appears without needing to be on the Cassandra path (Day 41)
• The in-game walkthrough now indicates the points from the pill choice (Day 41)
• Added some more animations to the F/D/Jennifer threesome (Day 42)
• Added renders of Cassandra on the phone when you are at the afterparty (Day 42)
• The narration at the end of the chapter was changed from a second-person point of view back to first-person
• The results of Cupid Night from Chapter 1 will be automatically transferred to Chapter 4
Things we’ve fixed in this update:

• Fixed a lot of grammar and some plot holes (remember, the game is written in British English, except for some minor exceptions) 😉
• Added sound FX and music for all of Chapter 3 (once the game is completed, we’ll look to add more sound FX in wherever we can)
• Music is now properly controlled by the “Music Volume” instead of “Sound Volume” in the game settings
i.e. Any scene where music tracks are playing (mainly club or dance scenes). The “Sound Volume” controls the audio for the sound effects
• Background sounds and foreground sounds can now play at the same time, instead of interrupting each other
• If you accidentally click “New Game”, you can now return to the menu without having to answer all of the questions first
• Added a “Deleted Scenes” section to the menu for Chapter 3 (you’ll see this on the Home Screen)
My main writer HearszAM had already written two extra scenes for Day 40 which I didn’t have time to create renders or animations for.
However, I have added those scripts into this section so you can read how these scenes played out.
He has also written scenes for Olivia and a scene for Margo (also for Day 40 originally), but at some point, I’ll look to use them in Chapter 4 instead.
• Added “Pat’s Gallery” (you’ll see this on the Home Screen)

v0.29
Things we’ve changed:
– Changed some lines to the Chapter 3 endings montage screens.
– Several renders fixed/replaced.
– Replaced Ruby with Cindy during the orgy scene at the competition after-party. We’ve also added a scene where Ruby decides to leave the party in disgust, which is more in line with what her character is like.
– Fixed any plot holes, bugs, continuity errors listed by fans.
– Updated and fixed any errors on the Chapter 3 Walkthrough.
Things we’ve added:
– Discussion between F, D and Georgina about her moving in with them.
– A sex scene with F, Dee and Jennifer on Day 42 (plus animations)
– A sex scene with F, Dee and Georgina on Day 42 (plus animations)
– A sex scene with F, Dee and Ryan on Day 42 (plus animations)
– A sex scene with F, Dee and Martin on Day 42 (plus animations)
– Added Martin to the Chapter 3 endings montage screens, and changed some lines for the Georgina and Jennifer screens.
– Music and sound effects added to every day in Chapter 3 (Chapter’s 1 and 2 will have sound FX added in very soon!)
Additions to the Settings Menu:

– For those with the walkthrough, there is now an option to enable an “In-Game Walkthrough” in the menu. You can enable it in the Settings menu.
When choices come up onto the screen there will be details (shown in yellow) to let you know what the best choices are to make for extra love points, bonus scenes, or scenes with other characters. (See picture 1)
– We’ve also added an option to enable or disable animations in the game. You can get access to this feature in the Settings menu.

Thanks to anyone who sent me or any of my team any errors that you found in the game.
With not much of a break in between working on both VN’s, we sometimes don’t have the time to go back and fix certain problems which is why this revision month is in place (to give us a chance to do that).
We want our games to be as perfect as we can possibly make them, and that doesn’t happen without your help.
So again, we thank you 😀

Animated scenes:
Day 42:
Georgina+Dee+F sex scene:
– D and Georgina dual fingering scene
– D blowjob in shower scene
– Georgina blowjob in shower scene
– F doggy shower sex with Georgina (full shot)
– F doggy shower sex with Georgina (close-up penetration)
– F doggy shower sex with D (close-up penetration)

Jennifer+Dee+F sex scene:
– F missionary sex with Jennifer (full shot)
– F missionary sex with Jennifer (close-up penetration)
– F doggy sex with Jennifer (full shot)
– F doggy sex with Jennifer (close-up)
– F doggy sex with Dee (full shot)
– F doggy sex with Dee(close-up)
– D handjob with Jennifer

Ryan+Dee+F sex scene:
– Dee blowjob scene (Ryan and Dee)
– Ryan spoon sex with Dee and blowjob for F (with Ryan and F together)
– Ryan spoon sex with Dee (close-up penetration)
– Dee blowjob for F (close-up oral)
– F spoon sex with Dee and blowjob for Ryan (with F and Ryan together)
– F spoon sex with Dee (close-up penetration)
– Dee blowjob for Ryan (close-up oral) x 2
– D cowgirl sex with F and blowjob for Ryan (with F and Ryan together)
– D cowgirl sex with F (close-up penetration)

Martin+Dee+F sex scene:
– 69er scene (Martin and Dee)
– 69er scene (Dee close-up oral)
– 69er scene (Martin close-up oral)
– Martin missionary sex with Dee (full shot)
– Martin missionary sex with Dee (close-up penetration)
– Dee blowjob scene (Martin and Dee)
– Dee blowjob for Martin and sex scene with F (with Martin and F together)
– Dee sex scene with F (close-up penetration)

v0.28
As we’ve mentioned in previous posts, we will be doing a full revision of this chapter during the first few weeks of December, and we are aiming to release a FINAL version of Chapter 3 just before Christmas.
It’s been a long but satisfying ride that has taken us to this point in our game-creating careers, and we thank you all for your patience with what is arguably our biggest ever release to date, in terms of content, lines of code, the number of renders used.
There’s been several times where we’ve wanted to end this game sooner, and even when we tried to make Chapter 3 the last one, we found that we still had too much story left to tell.
We don’t want to finish this game where we’re left asking ourselves that “we still could have added so much more”.

During the first year of making DMD (2016/17), we already had specific goals, fetishes to cover, and character combinations/paths that we wanted to see eventuate at some point in the game.
A lot of those initial plans have finally been worked on this year, and we will continue to do so right up until the conclusion of the story.
With Chapter 4, we intend to put a lot more emphasis on the father-daughter relationship, and where the two of them could potentially end up in the future.
There have been numerous endings mapped out to hopefully satisfy every kind of fan of our game.
About this update
The start of the prestigious “Seaside Modelling Competition” that your daughter has been entered into has finally arrived!

My team and I have had numerous talks about this particular update all year, and we’ve done everything we can to make it as perfect as possible.

The last thing we wanted was to create a “half-baked” competition, and the other focus was to give it a realistic feel.

There have been a lot of messages from you guys (and girls) about what you’re hoping to see in this final part of the story for Chapter 3.

Not all of the scenes that we had mapped out for these final two days of Chapter 3 have been added into this update, due to time constraints.

But that’s what our revision month is for! We have around thirteen extra sex scenes still to be added into this Chapter.
So don’t panic if a combination or a specific scene you were hoping would feature in this update doesn’t happen.
It could very well be included within the December update. 😉

We have however left some clues in this release to give you a fair idea of what these scenes could feature in the December update.

Some paths will come to an end in this Chapter, characters will say their final goodbyes and some will become very important in Chapter 4, our final chapter of the game.
There may even be the odd character or two that will return 😉

We don’t really want to give too much away, so it’s probably best that you all play the update and then leave your feedback in the comments section below.

We’ve also dropped in several TV and film references into this update. See if you can figure all of them out 😉

For those of you who are interested to find out what eventuates with Ryan (plus you and D), we have added a “Ryan/F sharing” path into the Relationships Menu.

It should appear in the menu as soon as you start Day 41. In case it doesn’t, it’s best to play a save from the evening of Day 40 through until when Day 41 begins.
We created this new option to avoid any confusion with the Margo/D path, a path that Ryan was originally attached to.

NOTE: If you went to the “Rave Cave” club with Margo and Ryan on the night of Day 39, then the “Ryan/F sharing” path will automatically be set to YES when Day 41 begins.

If you didn’t, then it will be set to NO. You can manually change this in the Relationships Menu if you need to.
*See picture attached to the post
And if you didn’t happen to notice this during the last update, a “Cassandra” path was also added to the Relationships Menu, to make it easier for you to view her scenes with D or to avoid them altogether (just like with every other possible combination in the game!)

V0.27
“DMD” v.0.27 IS READY FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY!
Animated and bonus scene:
Day 39:
· Morning – D missionary
· Morning – D Reverse cowgirl
· Morning – F playing with D’s boobs before D leaving to the park
· Evening – Kissing D
· Evening – Latex suit – Handjob
· Evening – Latex suit – Blowjob
· Evening – Latex suit – Pussy licking
· Evening – Latex suit – Vaginal doggy
· Evening – Latex suit – Anal doggy
· Evening – Latex suit – Anal doggy
· Evening – Latex suit – Doggy sex (with sex toy in D’s ass)
· Evening – Margo – Side sex (D)
· Evening – Margo – Reverse Cowgirl (Margo)

Day 40:
· Morning – Georgina – Boobjob
· Morning – Georgina – Doggy
· Morning – Georgina – Sitting Fuck
· Morning – Georgina – Sitting Fuck – Grabbing boobs
· Morning – Georgina – Missionary
· Evening – Elena – Reverse Cowgirl
· Evening – Elena – Missionary
· Evening – Jennifer – F teasing her with his dick

Android users: There are two versions. The first one is for newer Android devices. This is the one I recommend you download. If that version doesn’t work or doesn’t install or if you have an older Android device, download “Android 2” version.

We’re edging ever closer to the end of Chapter 3, and we still have so much more of the Dating My Daughter story to tell!

First off, a big thank you to every single one of you who has supported us not only through what’s been an incredibly tough year for everyone, but ever since I started creating DMD, my first-ever game.

Nearly four years ago, I started creating the “Dee” character, not thinking at the time that it would have grown to be as popular as it’s become.

I never intended to make this many updates of the story, but it’s because of you guys, or fans, that my debut visual novel is still being produced.

It’s not always been perfect, it’s not always been easy, but whenever we’ve found the going to get tough, we have had you, our fans, who continue to inspire and motivate us to keep going,
and to not give up so easily. So again, we really do appreciate you sticking by us through the three games we’ve produced thus far. Hopefully we can make many more for you all!

Final Words

We really hope you are satisfied with the continuation of DMD, Version 0.27, and again, thanks for sticking by us. We make these games for you as much as we do for ourselves.

If you would like to join the Unofficial MrDotsFan channel, the invitation link is: https://discord.gg/z728uFB

Feel free to share this link with anyone who you think would like to join the great community they have at “(It’s A Heart) MrDotsFans – Unofficial Fan Page”.

IMPORTANT: If you do decide to join, please make sure to read the rules in the “info-and-rules” section before you commence posting in other channels.

Two members of my team (HearszAM and Jeff Steel) are on this channel as well, so the Discord is another way you can reach me through them.

We won’t allow anyone to stop what we’re trying to achieve, which is to continually create high-quality content for our games, and any games that we intend to produce in the future.

As always you can leave your thoughts, feedback, errors/bugs found and any constructive criticism on today’s update in the comments section below.

We always strive to do our best and to give our fans a satisfying hour (or so) of entertainment with each release for all of our games.

Thank you for your continued support because without it, our games would not exist.

MrDots

v0.26
Good morning/evening, to wherever in the world you are reading this from!
So after a short turnaround (around about four weeks) since our debut release of Sunshine Love was posted up for you all, DMD is back with a brand-new update – v26! It is now available for you to download and play!
As most of you would know by now, we are currently developing Chapter 3, with plans for a fourth and final chapter that should take us through until the end of next year.
It will also allow us to include all the endings and fetishes that we have in mind for the story, and to also tie up any loose storylines as best as we can.
We know there are certain combinations and fetishes that you would like to see in the game, and there are many things that we still have planned before DMD concludes. But there’s only so much we can put into one update and we are slowly but surely getting through every possibility.
Some of these pathways will require a build-up over a number of updates – some of them will longer than others, but they will be worth it in the end.
We create visual novels for a living, so creating a plausible storyline for these various paths is what our main intention is when developing these stories.

About this update
Quite a bit has happened in this chapter so far, and as you would know if you have played up until the end of Day 36, everything is gravitating slowly towards D’s debut in a major modeling competition. She’s still in the middle of her preparation and aside from Angie and Cassandra booking her in for photo sessions, she now has your former co-workers Georgina and Martin (if you are on his path) to help you both out.

There are also characters that are hoping that D fails in her quest to become the next most talked about model on the scene.
Will Rachel find out where you and your daughter are when she finally arrives in Seaside, or will she give up her search and head on home?
What will be the repercussions of sleeping with your daughter at the end of the last update, with Martin staying over and asleep in the next room?
Will Georgina say anything to you or D about how she knows about your forbidden romance with your daughter?
And how will you and D celebrate your engagement? Will it be a memorable occasion?
Now that a few different sharing paths are in play, you will also have to decide which ones you want to stay on or which ones you should end.
Most decisions that you make from here on in can change the way the game ends for better or worse, so if you have the Walkthrough, you may want to consider using it.
Try and keep an eye on how the Relationships menu changes while you are playing the game.
And for those of you who are on the D-path ONLY, don’t forget to pick up those LOVE points when they are available.
They will be vitally important when the game comes to its final conclusion!
Thank you!

We are incredibly thankful for those of you who have supported us at any point during the production of our first two games, and especially those that supported us through the production and completion of our second game MELODY, which was completed in December of 2019.
The team and I are even more grateful for your continued support and feedback ever since we released our third game, SUNSHINE LOVE.
The next version of SL will be out around early to mid-June, with an official release date to be confirmed later this week.

Final Words
We really hope you enjoy playing DMD v0.26, and again, thanks for sticking with us. We make these games for you as much as we do for ourselves.
As always you can leave your thoughts, feedback, errors/bugs found and any constructive criticism on today’s update in the comments section below.
We always strive to do our best and to give our fans a satisfying hour (or so) of entertainment with each release for either of our games.
Thank you for your continued support because without it, our games would not exist.
MrDots

v0.25
About this update

With more time on our hands now for what we have in mind for how to end DMD, the next few updates will each be dedicated to one or two various paths that you may or may not be on. This update may seem a little shorter in playing time due to two things:

– If you are only playing the D path, and

– We didn’t start working on this update until late January, giving us less time than usual. That time was dedicated to our very first release of Sunshine Love, because we want it to be a big opening release for you guys who are subscribed to either of our two pages (Patreon and Subscribestar).

If you have played DMD up until the end of v24 (Day 34), you may have noticed in the “D menu” the number of sharing paths that have been added to the girls that you can individually date (Elena, Jen, Georgina).

This update continues on where Day 34 ended, with our two main characters reflecting on their adventures from the night before, and how or if it will affect their relationship in the future. Some of their close friends already know about your forbidden romance with D, but what happens when the wrong person finds out that you’re dating your own daughter?

A couple of D’s best friends will feature in this update, as will a couple of yours. There’s a very risqué photoshoot that D will model for, and one huge moment, possibly the most important in the game thus far that will also happen.

Now that a few different sharing paths are in play, you will also have to decide which ones you want to stay on or which you think that you should end.

Most decisions that you make from here on in can change the way the game ends for better or worse, so if you have the Walkthrough, you may want to consider using it.

v0.24
This update in a lot of ways is all about setting up the various sharing paths that we have in mind for F and especially D.
You will find by the end of this update that we have added four “sharing” paths into the main menu under “relationships”.
If you have the Walkthrough, we have left details on how to access the scenes where you and your daughter interact with other characters in some very special and saucy situations!
V24 also looks at how you and your daughter prepare for the all-important modelling competition in the next week of the game.
Be mindful of what day it is when the characters mention them in their conversations or thoughts. (Hint: the two days in this update are a Friday and a Saturday).
There will be three new characters that feature in this update, and D’s mother Rachel unexpectedly finds a new friend that you’ll all remember from Chapter 1.
One thing that we sometimes like to do with our two games is to reintroduce characters from the early parts of the game, who may have been favorites with a section of fans. They may or may not have some influence on D’s modelling career, or even her sexual progression with you, her father.
– New menu options and changes
Aside from adding more relationship options into the menu bar, the biggest change that we have made to this update is removing almost all of the points scoring system.
So once Day 33 begins, you will notice in the menu section that the boob, ass, sharing, exhibition and BDSM points have been removed, but we have kept the LOVE points.
We’ve kept these points because your final total score here will be very important towards the back end of the game. It may determine what endings you get by the time DMD is completed.
The reason for this is that it was becoming more increasingly difficult to keep track of the points and it was a nightmare from a coding perspective.
We also looked at it from a player’s point of view, and saw that it would be frustrating for you all to have to go back a day, or even several days in the game to pick up those one or two extra points from these categories, just to see an alternate scene.
So we’ve found an easier way to monitor this.
With the new additions of the sharing relationships, this will make things much simpler for you all to view alternate scenes.
So for example, if you are on the D-only path and you are out to dinner with Olivia and Graham, you can change the Olivia/D threesome option from “No” to “Yes” to see what happens after dinner with those two. Or you can keep it set or change it to “No”, to see what happens between you and your daughter instead!
And even if you decide not to be on any of these sharing paths, they will pop up in the menu during various points in this update anyway.
This is just to give you all the option to view alternate scenes, in case you change your mind.
If you have the Walkthrough, then there will be clues as to when and what scene these sharing options will pop up in the relationship’s menu.
Lastly, the various points that we have just taken out are still relevant up until the end of Day 32. So, for those of you who have not played up until the end of that day,
if you have the walkthrough, be sure to continue to collect the necessary points if you want to see specific scenes (e.g. collect ASS points to do anal-related activities with D).
The WT will still show these points up until the end of Day 32, but from Day 33, we will tell you what choices you need to make to get certain scenes
(e.g. sharing D with another male or female character) or specific options (e.g. anal sex, DP) in future updates.
So, from this update onward, choices that refer to sharing your daughter with other people, her doing sexual things in public, anything related to bondage or anal play, will be determined by decisions that you make at certain points during each update, rather than having to accrue a set amount of points.
– The “Elena issue” during the Q and A at the start of Chapter 3
At the start of Chapter 3, you were asked to fill out a questionnaire that asked you what characters you are in a relationship with, what specific choices you made in previous chapters, etc.
There was an issue with the Elena questions in particular, specifically the questions: “Have you rejected Elena?” and “Do you intend for Elena and D to have a sexual relationship?”
The issue was that the second question wasn’t necessary if you chose “Yes” as your answer to the first question.
If you select “No”, the very next question will be: “Do you intend for Elena and D to have a sexual relationship?”
If you select “Yes”, then this second question will not come up.
We have fixed this issue now. Thanks to one of our supporters on the discord for bringing this to our attention.

V0.23
We are incredibly thankful for those of you whom have supported us at any point during the production of both of our games, and especially those that continue to fund the ongoing development of DMD and MELODY.

Three Years of Making Adult VN’s

This week we celebrated our three year anniversary since I first launched my Patreon account, and began working on the very first release of DMD.

Around the time when I began making this game, even in my wildest dreams, I wouldn’t have ever imagined how successful or how popular the game would go on to become.

When I began designing the characters, coming up with the initial story line, and creating the first of many beta tests, nothing could prepare me for the amount of people who would go on to support and also fund me during its development.

I still regularly get messages of support from all around the world, and for me it’s a dream come true to be able to do this for a living.

Three years after those very first ideas and designs, here we are several updates later, many “days” into the game, and still going strong.

We’ve endured some struggles and even threats to have this game taken down, so that a conclusion at one point seemed impossible.

But this is our story, and as I’ve always maintained, especially during that troubled time once the game was taken down from Patreon, we have every intention of seeing DMD through until the end. And because of you guys (and girls) that have pledged, commented, and supported me during all this time, you all thoroughly deserve that.

About this update

For this update, we’ve put a lot of focus being on the various relationships that you the main character, may have chosen to have with the other female love interests in the game, aside from your daughter. You’ll notice from one of our previews this month that D’s friends Elena and Jennifer will feature, as will a few other fan favourites.

This update is in some ways the (long) beginning towards various endings in the game.

Of course, you will have to make certain decisions within this and future updates in order to get those endings, so if you have the walkthrough, be sure to use it to keep yourself on a specific path or a combination that you might be interested in seeing later on in the game.

There’s plenty of points on offer, not just Love points. BDSM, Sharing, Exhibition points can be attained, and if you have a certain amount collected already, then it will allow you more options and D will be open to try more things with you, and maybe with another guy or girl as well!

Again there are two days in this update – Days 31 & 32 – and in terms of words written, Day 31 is by my count the biggest day in the game so far.

There’s plenty of new renders, record-breaking lines of code and several new animations.

The walkthrough plus the coding for the game was incredibly difficult to put together, mainly due to how many characters feature and the number of different paths that progress forward in v23.

We’’d like to give a special shout out to a writer of ours, “Rosch”, that has helped contribute quite a number of scenes since the very first chapter of DMD.

Look out for his special scenes later in this update, one featuring Jen and Elena, another with Jennifer solo.

The Q and A’s at the start of the game

Before Chapter 3 began during our last update, we mentioned that would be asked to answer a quick Q & A before starting this chapter.

In this update (v23), there are a couple of questions that you need to answer correctly in order to view special scenes within this new release.

Also, if you watched a specific adult film on the evening of Day 28 with your Daughter, then there will also be a special role-play scene in this update.

Again, please use the Walkthrough if you have it to help you find these special scenes.

Days 31 & 32

Dating Site Picture In Suit Size

If you haven’t played the previous update or if you didn’t happen to notice this previously, we have removed the friendship points from the game.

Attaining a certain amount of BDSM, ASS, EXH or SHARING points before the start of this update may be the difference between getting certain options or viewing certain scenes on either Days 31 or 32.

The Walkthrough will give you clues on how many points from any of these categories that you will need to view these.

As always, you can leave your thoughts, feedback and constructive criticism in the comments section below.

We always strive to do our best and to give our fans a satisfying hour (or so) of entertainment with each release for either of our games.

Animated and Bonus scenes:

Day 31

– D rimming F at the beach (bonus scene)
– D giving F a blowjob (animated)
– E masturbating D (animated)
– Titfucking D in the bedroom (animated)
– D riding F (animated)
– D riding F facing away (animated)
– D riding F facing away and E kissing D (animated)
– E jerking F off while D watches (animated)

Day 32

– Elena normal and anal sex (animated)
– D giving F a blowjob in the morning (animated)
– D giving F a handjob in the morning (animated)
– Elena handjob in the shower (animated)
– F having sex with Georgina from behind (animated)
– D dressed up as a schoolgirl in the evening (bonus scene)
– D blowjob in the evening (normal and schoolgirl) (animated)
– D boobjob in the evening (normal and schoolgirl) (animated)
– D footjob in the evening (normal and schoolgirl) (animated)
– D cowgirl in the evening (normal and schoolgirl) (animated)
– Trying anal sex with D (bonus scene)
– Spanking D (bonus scene)

Final Words

I really hope you enjoy playing DMD v0.23, and again, thanks as always for sticking with us.

Not many game creators get to three years of developing them, and we make these games for you as much as we do for ourselves.

We also have an Unofficial Discord Fan if you would like to chat with other like-minded fans of my two games, share your own fan art, ideas etc.

Anyways, if you’d like to join the channel, the invitation link is below:

https://discord.gg/6uwj636

Please make sure to read the rules of the channel in the “info-and-rules” section, before you do anything else.

In this channel, it has our work schedule and approximate release dates for our two games between now, and the end of the year.

Feel free to share the above link with anyone who you think would like to join the great community they have at “(It’s A Heart) MrDotsFans – Unofficial Fan Page”.

The two members of my team (HearszAM and Jeff Steel) are on this channel quite often, so the discord is another way you can reach me through them.

You can also list any bugs or post your suggestions on there, for either of my two games.

Thank you everyone for your continued support because without it, our games would not exist.

Here’s to another three years!

Dating Site Picture In Suitcase

MrDots

v.0.22.5:
Bugfix Release
– Love points limit increased to 400
– Grammar errors fixed.

v0.22:
This update will be the beginning of Chapter 3 – The Finale.
For those that have played through until the end of Chapter 2, you will remember that D and F are about to arrive in their new home Seaside.
We figured that it would be the perfect way to end this Chapter, and the ideal way to begin this new one with D and F moving into their new home.
V22 further progresses the relationship between D and the MC, and we will see how they put plans in place for their special relationship in the future.
They’ll meet up with some familiar faces, and someone F was hoping not to see again (one person in particular). Specific locations from Chapter 1 when D and F visited Seaside last time will also feature again.
As for F’s other relationships on the side (if you’re on the other girls paths), we have used this update to prepare those particular flames to be re-introduced into future updates. Not all characters will feature in v22, but now that we know that we have more time to work on the game, they will all be given their own special endings before we reach the final conclusion.
Without giving too much more away, we can safely say that this is the biggest update of the game that we have ever done.
There’s well over 1,700 new renders, record-breaking lines of code, several new animations, and even the walkthrough for Days 28 and 30 took several hours to get right!

– kitchen sex with D x 2 positions (animated)
– going down on D while she’s on the phone
– beach sex with D x 3 positions, 2 locations (animated)
– tit fucking D on the beach (animated)
– BJ from D on the beach (animated)
– dual masturbation D and F sofa scene (animated)
– ball lick from D
– BJ from D in bedroom (animated)
– cowgirl sex with D (animated)
– D bondage bedroom scene (bonus)
– going down on D in the bedroom (bonus)
– teasing D with sex objects (bonus)
– missionary sex with D (bonus animated)
– shower sex with D (animated)
– oral sex in the shower from D (animated)
– Olivia squeezes D’s breasts (bonus)
– D and F on the playground (bonus)
– BJ from D on the playground (bonus animated)
– missionary bedroom sex with D (animated)
– oral sex in the bedroom from D (animated)
– doggy-style bedroom sex with D (animated)
– Elena masturbation scene watching F and D have sex (bonus)
– F and D have sex next to Elena when she’s asleep (bonus)
– BJ from Elena in the spare room (animated)
– cowgirl sex with Elena in the spare room (animated)

v0.21.5:
Hi guys,
I just wanted to inform you that I’ve updated the download links to DMD v.21.5. The main focus of this version was to fix the bugs you’ve reported since DMD v.21 came out.
Some of the bugs fixed are:
– Plot holes involving Georgina and Jennifer routes.
– Kissing scene between D and Jennifer.
– Android users: Users got stuck in the keyboard dialogue when starting the game with no saves from CH1, naming a save or trying to change D’s name.
– Grammar errors
Final words
DMD v.21.5 does not contain any new scenes I’m afraid. If you’ve already played v.21 then there’s no need for you to download the whole game again. If you’re an Android user and you’re having issues when starting the game with no saves from CH1, changing D’s name or naming your saves, then I’d recommend that you try this version out.
We’ll return to DMD in June. The release date for DMD v.22 is set to June 29th, 2019

A scene gallery containing every scene in chapter 2 and 3 can now be accessed from the main menu. All the scenes are already unlocked/viewable, meaning you don’t have to replay the game to be able to see the scenes in the gallery.

I’ve currently made over 100 improvements to tons of events in the game so that you will always be able to see dozens of missable scenes. So now all the scenes will play for events instead of only one. It’s also now possible to do every route and unlock every reward in Chapter 1 in only one playthrough. Read the full list of improvements below to see all of the changes.

Chapter 4:

Day 44: Obtaining the sex toy will no longer cause you to miss points.
Day 44: Choosing to not have public sex will no longer cause you to miss points.

Chapter 3:

Day 28: A quick start option has been added to the beginning of the game that will set all of your stats to the maximum.
Day 28: You can now cup the daughter’s breasts and squeeze her ass in the morning instead of only one.
Day 28: You can now choose any outfit without missing points.
Day 28: You now won’t miss points if you choose to cum outside when on the beach.
Day 28: You can now grab the daughter’s boobs and ass before dinner instead of only one.
Day 28: During the evening sex scene you can chose to use the feather AND the vibrator on the daughter instead of only one, choosing to cum on her won’t cause you to miss points, and you can also choose both choices when given the option to kiss her instead of only one.
Day 30: Fixed a bug in the game where Jennifer’s phone call won’t trigger if you aren’t in a relationship with Elena.
Day 30: Choosing to have a blowjob in the shower will no longer cause you to miss points.
Day 30: You can now choose any dress with Olivia and without missing points.
Day 30: It is now always possible to do the anal scene in the evening on the no Elena route and you won’t miss it if you’re in a relationship with other girls.
Day 30: Having sex with Elena will no longer cause you to miss points.

Chapter 2:

Day 14: When starting a new game all of your points will be 100, even if you load an old save.
Day 14: All three shower options for Georgina will play instead of only one.
Day 14: All four of Jennifer’s sex scenes will play (fingering, bj, deflower, and anal) instead of being forced to pick one and miss the others.
Day 15: You will now always get the extra money from work instead of not getting any money if you did Georgina’s scenes.
Day 15: While kissing the daughter in the hotel you can touch all three parts of her instead of only one.
Day 15: You can do both options while playing with the daughter’s nipples instead of only one.
Day 15: While taking a bath with the daughter you can wash all three parts of her body instead of only one.
Day 16: You can touch the daughter’s thighs and boobs in public instead of only one.
Day 16: When looking at books at the library you can touch the daughter’s boobs and ass instead of only one.
Day 16: You can now do both options with the daughter’s breasts at the spa.
Day 17: All five options will play when touching the daughter in the morning instead of only two.
Day 17: Georgina will now show you her whole body when video chatting with her instead of only half.
Day 17: You can now kiss the daughter on her feet and belly when at the park.
Day 17: Now you can now do the alcohol bar date AND the drive-in theater date instead of being forced to pick one and miss the other.
Day 17: Removed the dumb gameover caused by drinking whiskey at the bar.
Day 17: You can now grab the daughter’s boobs and ass while dancing instead of only one.
Day 17: When at the hotel at night you’ll be able to see both the feet and panties options instead of only one.
Day 17: Now ALL of the daughter’s scenes will play (handjob, boobjob, footjob) at the hotel instead of being forced to pick one scene and miss the others.
Day 18: You can now kiss the daughter in all three spots in the morning instead of only one.
Day 18: If you are doing Jennifer’s route the store clerk will no longer flirt and hit on her.
Day 18: You will no longer lose points if the daughter deep throats you on the train.
Day 18: When you’re on the train with Elena all the scenes for all three sex positions will play, instead of forcing you to pick one and miss the others.
Day 18: The special 69 scene at the end of the day will always play, even if you are doing Elena’s or Georgina’s route.
Day 19: Holding the daughter’s ass in the truck will no longer cause you to lose a point.
Day 19: The daughter will always show you her tits in the truck, even if you are doing Elena’s or Georgina’s route.
Day 19: Now you can do the daughter’s barn scene AND Elena’s barn scene instead of being forced to pick one and miss the other.
Day 19: All options will play during the daughter’s barn scene instead of only some.
Day 19: Cumming on the daughter’s tits in the barn will no longer cause you to lose a point.
Day 19: Both the daughter and Elena will ride the mechanical bull instead of only one.
Day 19: You will no longer lose points when the daughter shows her tits after falling off the bull.
Day 19: You will always be able to do the nude photoshoot, even if you are doing Elena’s or Georgina’s route.
Day 19: You can take photos of the daughter in all six positions instead of only being able to do two positions.
Day 19: Cumming on the daughter’s face at night will no longer cause you to miss a point.
Day 19: An option has been added that let’s you skip Elena’s and Jordan’s relationship scene.
Day 20: When you wake up in the morning now all three scenes will play (Elena blowjob, daughter blowjob, daughter bedroom) instead of only one, even if you don’t meet the requirements for the three scenes.
Day 21: You can now tease the daughter’s crotch and chest on the plane instead of only one.
Day 22: You can now touch the daughter’s breasts, ass, and pussy in the morning instead of only one.
Day 22: You can now touch the daughter’s breasts and pussy after making the phone calls instead of only one.
Day 22: You can now touch the daughter’s breasts, ass, and pussy in the morning instead of only one.
Day 22: You can now touch the daughter’s breasts and pussy after making the phone calls instead of only one.
Day 22: All of the sex options in the apartment can now be chosen.
Day 22: Added an optional skip choice for the shower rimjob scene.
Day 22: At night choosing to have the daughter jerk you off doesn’t cause you to miss points.
Day 23: You can now touch the daughter’s breasts and tease her pussy in the morning instead of only one.
Day 23: You can now wash both parts of the daughter’s body in the shower instead of only one.
Day 23: Added an option to enable or disable future scenes between Martin and the daughter.

Release date: 27 November, 2021
Genre: Sexy girls, Ren’py, Date-Sim, Sexy Girls, Blonde, Big Tits, Father-Daughter, Seduced, All sex, Incest, Voyeur, Beautiful ass
Censorship: NO
Developer / Publisher: MrDots (Other Games:Melody, Sunshine Love)
Platform: Windows / Linux / Android
Version: Chp.1 Final + Chp.2 Final + Chp.3 Final + Chp.4 v0.33 Extra + Walkthrough + Lains Mod
Language: English, Italian (install patch)
Size: 2.37 GB