Dating is Not Just For the Skinnies -
Plus Online Dating in the Land of Size Zeros!
By
Lorena Maverick
Plus-sized daters face an uphill battle in the online dating wars.
Designers, media, fashionistas, and your neighbor next door are all so convinced that skinny is a better beautiful that they jog, crunch and starve their way to size zero, and they strongly suggest that you do the same. Online dating certainly reflects this preference for skinny-is-better.
Still, half a dozen top sites do exist for large people variously tagged as BBW (big beautiful women), or BBM for men; Lovely Large, Beautiful Big Girls, and so on. Our term is Large Singles, and for Large Singles, there a number of online dating options out there.
Before we begin, let us ask why it is that these sites almost exclusively deal with "largeness" is a woman's issue? Surely, there are large guys out there whose large physiques settle mostly around the middle and hindquarters.
Secondly, the adjectives "big plus beautiful" have been so inextricably bound up with Large Singles that it is almost impossible to find these sites without searching for "BBW" or some other such acronym. This adjective-sweetening reminds me of grade school camp counselors who try to make you feel better about something bad: like chubby cheeks or a missing tooth. But, we digress.
Putting these legitimate questions all aside for now, and in the interest of getting information out there on "lovely large" singles, let's look at some of the options for plus sized daters.
Taking a fast turn around the Google and Alexa search engines brings up dozens of dedicated sites for large singles, including Large and Lovely Connections -- a rather homely site that is apparently fairly popular. BBWCupid is a fun, cheerful, and upbeat favorite. Plus-sized, full figured daters can also find companionship and romance at:
LargeFriends.com,
BBW Personals Plus, BBPeopleMeet.com, and
BBW
Romance.com. All of these sites are top quality and sizeable web services that give large singles a decent sized dating pool from which to choose. These sites are colorful, well-stocked with profiles, and except in a positive way, do not make a huge deal about large singles, pun most definitely intended.
Smaller websites riding the niche of Large Singles include a number of smaller sites with fewer romantic bells and whistles, such as: .com, BBWDating.com, and LargePassions.com.
Moving more toward the social networking scene, VenusDivas.com (found at venusimaging.com) offers a plus size modeling and lifestyle community that is well made and sophisticated.
For a more adult plus dating slant, plus daters can visit BBWSexDating without getting embarrassed, as this site is only moderately racier than its more mainstream sisters, at least on the outside. As always, online daters should be extra cautious when venturing into the adult dating world.
Going international to find plus sized Large Singles is like crossing the Gobi Desert at high noon, in other words, dry.
Searching for Large Singles internationally brings a plethora of foreign brides sites that would have you believe that these sites have thousands of 200-pound lovelies from Pago-Pago all dying to meet you. Always the presumption is that all online daters are men. This additional bias is found large outside the US and Canada.
One fresh difference is Alternate Dating Sites/BBW. At first glance, this international BBW/BBM site looks like a bucket of boring links thrown together, but if you hang in there, this website, and its sister site, BBWSinglesfinder will get you to a few very interesting places.
Dating is not only for skinny people, young people, beautiful people. If that were true, most of use would never get a date, but there is a lingering bias against Large Singles in terms of presentation and offerings on internet dating sites. Such bias is changing, and not a moment too soon. Meanwhile, plus size online daters have options. Use them!
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Lorena Maverick is the pen name for the founder of g showcase featuring the most popular and most unusual dating and matchmaking sites online, including sites for ZingoMatch Plus Size daters.
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