The holidays may be the time for a new relationship, with some online dating sites seeing an average of 40% more page views per user between Christmas and New Year.
“It’s been a trend that we’ve been noticing for many years now,” says Mamboo’s COO, Gloria Diez. “Could it be more than just the effect of the mistletoe?”
The company is reporting some interesting statistics, including members sending 30% more online gifts, as well as a 38% increase in spending on the site. The number of messages sent and received by members also doubled. Continue reading →
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David Weissman’s We Were Here is a new documentary about the emergence and spread of AIDS in San Francisco.
More than 15,000 people died from the virus by the mid 1990s. What the director captures is not just the pain of the group, but a real destruction of communities. Eventually many in the US and around the globe developed a deep sense of compassion for gays and went back to rethink the “moral question” of that time.
We Were Here has been described as a probing look into the emergence and rapid spread of HIV and AIDS and is a horrifying yet sensitive exploration of a community facing a dreadful experience and a true crisis.
Weissman goes through an entire community and explores many viewpoints that tell the truth, and well as providing a narrative that’s understandable from any audience’s point of view.
Whether or not you are familar with events of the 1980s and 1990s, you will still feel a strong connection with characters in the documentary. We Were Here has some very weighty moments, and the format can grow tiresome. It is made up of interviews with news broadcasts in between.
But it is saved by the fact that it does not fear going close to contradictions. Paul Boneberg, one of the film’s more political five, describes the gay community as such: “If you took a group of young men and told them that they could have sex as much as you want, how much do you think they’d have? They’d have a lot of sex.” Earlier on in the film one of the profiled people asks that people remember that ”[homosexuals] are not some network of people who just like to have sex.”
The five characters here don’t need to prove anything or make any grand arguments, so their willingness to share moments of great personal strength don’t come off as preachy. As Ed Wolf, a counselor who attested to being “terrified” by anonymous sex but somehow managed to comfort those who could not survive the disease’s grasp, says, “It’s not heroic, you just do it.”
The documentary was released in September and is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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Datepositive.net’s December Deal has added more than 1000 members to the website.
The deal offered a one-month membership for just one pound to new and exiting members.
Premium members could take advantage of the offer by adding a month to their Premium subscription for just £1.
We are more than happy with the results of the sale, and hope that existing members and new members have enjoyed the offer.
Look for more hiv dating and herpes dating offers like this in the future from www.datepositive.net
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It is great to know that the prices at www.Datepositive.net continue to be much lower than at hivmatch.co.uk.
We are offering a three-month membership for just £11.99, almost half the amount of hivmatch’s three-month membership which is £19.99.
Our six month membership is only £17.99, while at hivmatch the cost for half a year is £29.99, with a full year costing £39.99, compared to £23.99 at datepositive.net.
Our hiv dating site also has more members, so the site offering the best value is these really difficult economic times is datepositive.net.
At datepositive.net we understand how hard it can be to manage, and that’s why we have kept our prices exceptionally low.
We also give plenty of opportunities for free upgrades, and extensions to membership.
We wish to thank our members for their loyalty over the years and we will continue to reward existing and new members with exceptional value at a safe and secure website.
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Hi,
We have not one, but two fantastic offers this weekend.
1. Buy a three-month or longer Premium between now and Monday, November 21 and we will give you six months free Premium.
You can either upgrade or add to your Premium membership to take advantage of this offer.
2. Buy a one-month membership for just £5.99 and we will give you an additional month for free.
These offers give fantastic value for money and you’ll get to enjoy all the benefits of membership.
Thanks,
Steve
www.Datepositive.net has two fantastic offers this weekend.
1. Buy a three-month or longer Premium between now and Monday, November 21 and we will give you six months free Premium.
You can either upgrade or add to your Premium membership to take advantage of this offer.
2. Buy a one-month membership for just £5.99 and we will give you an additional month for free.
These offers give fantastic value for money and you’ll get to enjoy all the benefits of membership.
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