Also perhaps the people using these sites aren’t getting much out of their current scene and the reason for that may be that the liberals are actually conservatives without knowing it and the conservatives are actually liberals without knowing it.

#16 because at that age they are still learning how to get along with other people and treating them as responsible people inspires confidence and responsibility, while junk food in schools is taking the place of something that is not junk food and what kind of thing is that teaching us?

My immediate thought was “Well, of course!” Because men tend to be more conservative than women, but are far less likely to make political views a dealbreaker. I mean, I know plenty of female liberals who would NEVER even consider a date with a Republican or libertarian; but I can’t think of many men who would turn down a date with an otherwise attractive woman because they didn’t agree politically.

For the woman, it is often a case of “He’s a conservative, and thus obviously wants me to be oppressed and perpetually pregnant whilst he gleefully withholds cash and food from poor people,” whereas for the men it seems to be more of “Well, she’s got some wacky ideas, but she’s really hot.” Probably something to do with the female propensity for emotionalizing things, and the male ability to detach and compartmentalize.

I’d also be interested to see if there was a difference on eHarmony, where the participants are much more interested in marriage. I would guess that eHarmony users are not only more conservative, but would also be inclined to be somewhat pickier in their matches as they are presumably looking for a permanent, marriageable partner. That is a scenario in which I could see men being more concerned with their potential mate’s political/religious/cultural views.

Regarding conservatives or liberals being more “moralizing,” in my experience they are probably about equal but about different things. I’m always amused by my liberal friends insisting that 16-year-olds should be treated as completely competent adults in all matters pertaining to sexuality, contraception, abortion, etc.,; but that we need to get the junk-food vending machines out of the high schools because won’t someone PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

this is why conservatives oppose abstinence only programs and liberals support them? i think your conception is glib and superficial. explaining part of the specific answer with general frameworks, but predicting in the other direction on other specific issues, suggests that there isn’t much juice in the framework. (in fact, david haidt finds that conservatives tend to be ‘moralizers,’ though i have no idea about the underlying primary research there either….)

That has been my experience as well, but then again, I was using the apparently “hipster” OkCupid.

Fascist! Only fascists appeal to that idiocy. They fear the ugly face in the mirror.

#4, tell me if you can get the data out of match.com it does sound like a suspicious sexy result….

sure clark, sure…. (me thinks the latter day saint doth protest too much)

(For the record I’ve not used any of these)