Virtual Foreplay: Making Your Online Relationship a Real-Life Success - Softcover

Hogan, Eve Eschner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897933303 ISBN 13: 9780897933308

Publisher: Hunter House, 2001

Synopsis

Entering the world of online dating can be daunting and even dangerous. Virtual Foreplay addresses the need for a guidebook to this still largely unexplored area, but the author takes an unusual approach. Using real-life examples, she helps readers find their self, soul, and passion in a way that makes presenting themselves online an honest and satisfying experience. Chapters like "Fifty Ways to Delete Your Lover" and "Don’t Talk to Strangers--Except on the Internet!" keep the discussion lively as well as informative.

About this title

About the Author

Eve Eschner Hogan, M.A., is an inspirational speaker and a relationship specialist. She is the author of "Intellectual Foreplay: Questions for Lovers and Lovers-to Be," (Hunter House, 2000) "Virtual Foreplay: Making Your Online Relationship a Real-Life Success" (July, 2001, Hunter House) and co-author of "Rings of Truth" (Health Communications Inc, 1999). She holds a Master's Degree in Confluent Education, a Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology, a Teaching Credential in Hawaii and California and serves as Director of Education for Motivating the Teen Spirit, LLC.

Eve is an online relationship advisor for AmericanSingles.com, JDate.com, Relationship-talk.com, AskEveAdvice.com and serves as the "Wizard of the Dating Realm" on Wz.com. She is also a labyrinth facilitator, a wedding officiant and co-owner with her husband, Steve, of Makena Coast Charters Scuba Diving on Maui. She has appeared on Lifetime TV's "Love Letters of a Lifetime" special, "Woman to Woman" on CBS, Fox News National, in Cosmopolitan and Bride Magazines, among several others.

For over thirteen years, Eve has been facilitating seminars for corporations, schools, organizations and individuals seeking to improve their quality of life. As an agent of change, Eve has assisted thousands of people to achieve greater self-mastery and to create more productive, healthier relationships, whether in the workplace, the schools, the home or the heart—and now, on the Internet!

Reviews

As the web becomes more accessible, once-timid nontechnical types are using it to shop for everything including love. Hogan, a relationships adviser for AmericanSingles.com, stresses the importance of learning about ourselves from the ways we interact and describe ourselves online. Through a series of questions in each chapter, readers perform a self-assessment, which will, according to the author, help them understand what qualities are important to them in a potential mate. Unlike some recently published Internet dating manuals, this book does not offer a list of hot spots and things to say the first time you "meet." Instead, Hogan addresses the concerns of individuals seeking mature, long-term relationships. This book is not for beginners, as the author does not adequately explain Internet terminology or the various means of Internet courting. Likewise, veterans may feel put off by the commonsensical advice and the concentration on professional dating services. Nevertheless, this title does offer some useful guidance and can be considered for libraries with Internet-savvy patrons. Jeanne Larkins, New York
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hunter House
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897933303
• ISBN 13: 9780897933308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224