MATCH.COM FACILITATING UNREGULATED AND UNEQUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOREIGN WOMEN

[bronxman]

You go Match.com!

Does this look familiar?  No, its not Cherryblossoms, but it may as well be.  Search 18 to 25 years old in the Philippines and you get 50 pages!  In violation of local Philippine law to boot!

http://international.match.com/search/searchsubmit.aspx?tp=S&rn=2151016435017&pn=1&do=0&r2s=0&q=man,women,18,25

If the above link does not show a list of women, hit the search button on the right or view the screen shot that is attached below.

This is a typical and real scenario: a group of filipinas sharing a computer at a local internet cafe in Manila are recruited by the lure of Match.com's FREE profiles and of course by the prospect of foreign romance.  An American man pays for a Match.com membership and sends "winks" to the non-feminist objects of his desire. After all, they are young and fertile and do write very nice "I am your future wife" ads. The filipinas pool their money and pay for a single Match.com membership and one girl communicates unconditionally with the man.  Then, the women share the contact information and men start receiving emails from other filipinas (to the man's delight no doubt).  The man can look up the corresponding profiles on, you got it, Match.com. Repeat this hundreds of times, and you get the idea.   Filipinas, to their credit, are VERY skillful when it comes to spending VERY LITTLE money to communicate with American men via the Internet.

This is what you will read on the Match.com site:

Why is match.com the most popular way in the world to find love on your terms? Is it because we've inspired twice as many marriages as any other site in the world?

Browse
Start by telling us the type of person you're looking for and get going right from our homepage. It's absolutely free and the best way to get a feel for what we're all about. With over eight million members we're sure there's someone who'll catch your eye.

Join. It's free.
Like what you've seen? Take the next step and become a member. First, fill out a free profile. It lets people know you're out there and ready to meet that special someone. In addition to creating a free profile, members can post pictures and send winks, the perfect way to break the ice with someone who's caught your eye.

Subscribe
Okay, you've seen someone interesting, you've read their profile and filled out yours. Now it's time to subscribe. This is when the fun really begins. Subscribing has proven to be our most successful way to meet people. It gives you unlimited access to everyone on match.com. That means more chances, more choices, more ways to connect and find your match. You'll even have your own dedicated Match email address so you can communicate with anyone at anytime safely and privately.

Scope of Service
The Service enables you to contact other members. Match.com is not a marriage brokering service and is not obligated to successfully broker any other members for you.

No, Match.com is not a marriage brokering service despite the same presentation of women's ads as those demonized by feminists on sites selected for regulation under the IMBRA.  Match.com is not a marriage broker because marriage brokers do not exist on the Internet.  Match.com is not a marriage broker because, like EVERY OTHER dating service, Match.com does not operate as a broker or get paid for successfully marrying anybody.

Yes, the ads below are from MATCH.COM!!!! Hey Miller, look at Chassy.  She wants nothing to do with YOUR law.  DO.  YOU.  UNDER.  STAND.  You will not regulate her! Oh how sweet it is to be a serial premeditated violent predator torturer on Match.com. How sweet it is.  Thank you Layli, thank you.

chassy7

25-year-old Woman
Cebu City, Cebu
Seeking: Man 25 to 77
3 more photos
Active within 24 Hoursi am what i am
im a happy nd simple person... who loves to live life to the fullest so that i wont regret dying... love me hate me.. convicted with out trial... im grounded by gods' creation,stupid wen in love......

christine_jade

19-year-old Woman
Cagayan De Oro, Misamis Oriental
Seeking: Man 25 to 50
Active within 24 Hours im very single who looking for person who willing to love me...who will be mine...i will be go0d to you if youre go0d to me..im willing to give up everything just for you...im y0ung but my mind ia matured enough to t...

wilmz1

18-year-old Woman
Bato, Cebu
Seeking: Man 18 to 50
Active within 2 weekshi im wilma francisco....
I am a cute girl, nice two dimples ,i am kind, understanding, and everything here in myself..I'm looking here for a man that willing to help me, when i have a problems..a man that nice to talk,a man t...

[Delphi_Programmer]

No, Match.com is not a marriage brokering service despite the same presentation of women's ads as those demonized by feminists on sites selected for regulation under the IMBRA.  Match.com is not a marriage broker because marriage brokers do not exist on the Internet.  Match.com is not a marriage broker because, like EVERY OTHER dating service, Match.com does not operate as a broker or get paid for successfully marrying anybody.

No.  It is a personals ad service, just like the personals ads in the newspapers, magazines or the ones circulated in the mail, like Cupid's Destiny, before the Internet was available.  Women from the Philippines have advertised in EVERY ONE of these, including the Sheela Wood column, a column in tabloid magazines that has resulted in many mostly American happy couples since 1950.

Until now, no one has ever questioned or attacked the validity of these services or the people who use them.  "Marriage broker" services operate under the exact same format.  No one is "matching" anyone.  If anything, the traditional dating service, where you fill out a questionnaire, interview a counselor and have your matches "set up" for you (a. la. "Lifestyles International") is more like a marriage broker than any free-will personal ad column.  Incidentally, these services, which include eHarmony, are far more authoritarian about whom they allow to be matched than a personal ad column could ever be.

[Delphi_Programmer]

Does this story look like "marriage brokering", "mail-order bride 'trafficking'", "sex tourism" or "bride purchasing"?

This column is a personals ad column, published in a magazine that is on the shelf at checkout lines in most grocery stores.  Sheela Wood has been bringing lonely hearts together since 1950.  While most people who meet through her column are American, they sometimes come from other countries.

People place and answer ads of their own volition, and choose whom to contact and continue communicating with.  Over time, relationships develop, just as they would in any venue through which men meet women.  Some of these people choose to meet in person, and sometimes the relationships end up in marriage, like Clarance and Nora's.  Meeting someone in or outside of a national border doesn't magically make a relationship "trafficking" or not, nor does it change the format and method through which people meet, or change the risks of meeting a stranger through correspondence.

A mandate to put regulations on one form of personal advertising is a mandate to put the same regulation on all forms of it, or none of them.  It is not fair to single out some of them, rename them to something else, and put special regulations on only them.  As illustrated here, some of the same women who might "sell" themselves in "mail order bride" columns, might also place ads in columns like this one, and meet people the same way that hundreds of Americans meet each other each week.

[bronxman]

That demon Layli Miller has NEVER and will NEVER logically explain or justify why someone like Nora from the Philippines who CHOOSES to use a dating service must work an entire month and scrape together the same $35 (or more) that men pay and spend that money on a venue that must benefit more Americans than foreigners just so she can advertise HERSELF without being subject to mandatory communication conditions.

That evil Miller has NEVER and will NEVER logically explain why someone like Nora from a remote village in the Philippines who CHOOSES to use a free dating service must be burdened with American-feminist-contrived paperwork that she can only receive by mail AND must work for two days (if work is available) to be able to afford postage to send the paperwork back to America before being able to communicate with an American man. 

Nora HATES Layli Miller for efing up her life chances.  Miller really is the devil.

[frank johnson]

At the very least, the Daughter of Satan.

Right Larry?

[frank johnson]

“Thank you for posting that Sheila Wood ad!”, screams Layli hysterically, “Finally I have her address so that I can send an IMBRA enforcement squad to break down her front door and arrest her! Can I have some more addresses of other sex trafficking ring International Marriage Brokers like hers?”

“I mean just look at that poor frightened and obviously abused helpless, ignorant non-English speaking victim that premeditated torturer is holding against her will.”, Layli continues while foaming at the mouth, “Not to mention he is a pedophile just like Daddy Larry because he is 20 years older than her. He is 46 so she must only be in her early teens. He must be punished and she must be saved by the Bahai Cult Faith. I’ll get a lot of tax dollars to take care of her and, Hell, I might actually spend one or two of those tax dollars on her although the rest goes where all tax dollars go – to ME and the Bahai Faith New World Order takeover!”

[bronxman]

That Sheela Woods article is clearly a promotion showing how the dating service can help an older divorced American man with access to young fertile worthy women in the Philippines.  Yes, Sheela Wood is using a "marketing practice" so venomously hated by feminists.  

Remember, the majority-foreigner and equal-charge rules were devised as a means to isolate dating services with abhorred "marketing practices" that feminists claim, however unsubstantiated, are a magnet for unsavory men who would never consider using feminist-approved Match.com.  These rules have no logical or rational basis except to isolate and regulate.  If services that cater to an American woman majority or charge equal fees are utilizing those despised marketing practices, then we can point to yet another reason that proves IMBRA is a failed and useless law.

[tristan]

a.  Is Sheela Woods still in business?

b.  Does she comply with IMBRA?

[Delphi_Programmer]

The Sheela Wood column is published in Globe, the National Examiner and Sun magazines.  The last time I checked it was still in business; however, it is a paper-only column that for some weird reason never went online.   They do still publish ads from foreign women.

I am not aware that they do or don't comply with IMBRA.  As a U.S.-based service that specializes mainly in introducing Americans to Americans, I would tend to think they are exempt, as is Match.com.