Press Release Summary = The huge space for online daters can accommodate everyone
Press Release Body = American singles have been logging on to online dating services for just about as long as the Internet has been around, but now services exist for every interest and fad under the sun.
Irvin Leroy weighs 110 pounds, is masculine and very friendly. He lives in northern California and is looking for a girlfriend to share long walks on the beach and rolls in the grass.
If that sounds like a personal advertisement, it is, but the subject described is a dog. Around 50,000 pet owners, like Leroy\'s, have posted information on the website datemypet.com, in search of a mate. The common bond among them is the passionate love of their pets.
There\'s truckerpassions.com for singles who drive semi-tractor trailer rigs, grapedates.com for wine lovers, tallfriends.com for tall people, dharmadate.net for practicing Buddhists, hippiepersonals.com for progressive peaceniks and punkpassions.com for lonely hearts who are part of the punk scene.
Many vegetarians seek each other at veggiedate.com where more than 16,000 men and women describe more than their culinary affections.
\"Everything is wonderful,\" gush newlywed vegetarians Anna and Ilya of Moscow in a thank you note on the website. The Russian couple met over the English-language vegetarian online dating service.
The US company Spark Network operates 26 niche matchmaker websites, including sites for blacks, single parents, members of the armed services and Jewish singles. The site for Jewish singles, jdate.com, has 600,000 members, making it the largest.
On the other end of the scale is the site gayharmony.net, which has 600 profiles of gay men and lesbian women, said the gay magazine Bay Area Reporter. The site claims it is the only dating service for gay and lesbian Christians.
The website largeandlovely.com noted last month that 5 million overweight men and woman had visited its website.
Perhaps the online dating service farmersonly.com has benefited from the success of the homosexual-themed movie Brokeback Mountain, which has launched a bit of a cowboy revival in the US. Although it is for heterosexuals, the site offers ranchers, nature lovers and farmers of every sort a place to look for down-to-earth partners.
Wealthy singles also have a place tailored to their tastes on the Internet. Sites like sugardaddie.com and millionairematch.com cater to rich men and women who like to spoil their mates and be spoilt themselves.