Online Dating You had sex where? — Page 2 — Page 4 She’s not an escort Date Night... Brandon University’s Student Newspaper: titillating students since 1910— Page 3 Volume— Page 104, Issue 6 21 — February 11th, 2014 Things are heating up The Sex and Love Edition Sex > Education Photo credit Krista Mills. baby... stage. Join us at the Quill as we take a ping pong by the way!) rubbed that string We can’t guarantee this year will be ALEX MURR A Y , A SSIST A NT DOCTOR -OF -LOVE long, hard, throbbing look at some of the of flowers in your face and they were still better, but it definitely won’t be worse W The Quillit or hate it, Val- more Can’t lurid tales from our school.Get Enoughmoist. of Yourthan the last two.Love Especially if you have entine’s Day is right around the corner. Believe me, this issue will be much Yeah, that one. You should probably the Quill on your side. Thathether means PDAs, you STIslove and a whole other better than the last Valentine’s Day you go get tested or something. So take off your shoes and get ready host of acronyms threatening to take off had in Thailand. You know, where the Girl Or the one before that where you to Bilbo it up. Things are about to get their pants and dance suggestively on at the Ping Pong Show (which did not have were weeping into that overused sock. sticky. § Volume 104, Issue 21 — February 11th, 2014 — 1 Features – 2 The cyberest of sex claims of harassment and threats. enough to leave his face in the picture.” KA TIE DRIEDGER , SENIOR REPORTER The Pitfalls of OnlineVictoria, Dating who requested to have her Victoria finally reached her breaking W a society that is dominated named changed for personal and security point once Steve began to reference the by technology, with televisions, computers, purposes, is a Brandon University student photographs and statuses that she had editorialstaff e live in Doctor of Love | Emily Diehl tablets, smart phones seen and used al- that has experienced the pitfalls of both posted on Facebook and Instagram. At that [email protected] most everywhere. It should not be surpris- online dating and social media. She said point, she reported his account for harass- Assistant Doctor of Love | ing that our societal lust for technology has that she joined the online dating website, ment and deleted her own account off POF. Alex Murray penetrated our love lives. Plenty of Fish, last summer in order to meet She said that she had no other choice but [email protected] new friends after moving to Brandon a year to block him on Facebook and significantly General Manager | Recent studies have shown that the earlier. However, she soon became over- increase her privacy settings across her ac- Elinor Murray stigma that haunted online dating in the [email protected] early 2000s has declined considerably in whelmed with messages from male users. tive social media accounts. Senior Reporters | recent years, making online dating more Although Victoria was relatively new to While Victoria said that the harass- Carissa Taylor, Katie Driedger socially acceptable. Various statistics show online dating, she suspected that some- ment has stopped, she said that she would Miss Q | that roughly 25 per cent of Canadians thing was not right when one particular never even consider trying online dating [email protected] male user, Steve, continued to send her again after this last experience. Classifieds | have at least browsed online dating sites numerous messages a day, even after Although Victoria did not feel as if she [email protected] at some point in time. However, males Advertising | are significantly over-represented on on- she told him that she wasn’t interested in needed to consult with a lawyer or police, [email protected] line dating sites compared to their female forming a relationship with him. “One day, her situation possibly could have led to a cunninglinguists counterparts. he sent me about seventy-five messages. criminal investigation. While no legislation There are a multitude of online dat- I kept on telling him to stop because he specifically relates to cyber-stalking in Can- Whitney Hodgins, Holly Kalyniuk, Krista ing websites to fit your needs depending wasn’t really my type and he was a little bit ada, cases related to online harassment Mills, Karleigh Paul, Shelby Steele, Amber too old for me,” said Victoria. “Steve had would fall under section 264 of the Crimi- Schroeder, Stephanie Bachewich (BUSU), on your age, budget, relationship status, Jenna Noordenbos (VCF) gender, and sexual preference. While some a really creepy vibe, you know. He kept on nal Code, section 264. online dating options allow the user to sort telling me how he wanted to meet me and Criminal harassment is defined as: through dozens to thousands of viable us- that he was starting to fall in love with me. “No person shall, without lawful authority ers to choose from, other apps like Grindr, I hadn’t even met him, yet!” and knowing that another person is ha- When asked if she considered block- rassed or recklessly as to whether the oth- The Quill is published weekly by The Tindr, and Blendr alert you of users in your ing Steve or deleting her account, Victoria er person is harassed, engage in conduct Quill, Inc., and is printed by The Kil- general vicinity that have similar interests larney Guide in Killarney, MB. – mostly for hookup purposes. Some apps, said that that option had not even occurred referred to in subsection (2) that causes such as Cougar Life and Ashley Madison, to her at this point, because she said that that other person reasonably, in all the cir- NOTE: Editorials, letters, and view- have a more specialized market. Whereas she could just ignore Steve’s messages. cumstances, to fear for their safety or the point articles do not necessarily apps like OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, eHar- The quantity and substance of the messag- safety of anyone known to them.” Victoria’s reflect the opinion of The Quill staff, es eventually escalated to the point where case would have fallen under subsection The Quill, Inc., or the faculty, staff, or mony, Zoosk, and Flirt.com tend to serve a Victoria blocked Steve’s account. Neverthe- (b): “repeatedly communicating with, ei- administration of Brandon University. wider audience. One of the benefits or downfalls, de- less, this did not stop the harassment be- ther directly or indirectly, the other person The Quill is a member of Canadian pending on where you stand on the issue, cause he created a new account under a or anyone known to them.” University Press (CUP), one of the of the social media and online dating expe- new name. “The messages were basically Plenty of Fish was contacted in regards world’s largest student organiza- rience is anonymity. Due to the expansive- the exact same; he didn’t stop. 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