EHarmony Goes Gay, Sort of
After losing a lawsuit, the heterosexual-only dating service eHarmony has opened it’s gay mirror image, Compatible Partners. It officially opens for business on April 1 (yes, we know) but it seems to be working now, offering:
The founder of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren is a psychologist with a divinity degree. He was initially affiliated with Focus on the Family, and the site was promoted as being “based on the Christian principles of Focus on the Family author Dr. Neil Clark Warren.” However, Dr. Warren began to distance himself from FOTF and Dr. Dobson back in 2005, claiming among other things that they were becoming too narrowly political for the dating site. He stopped radio appearances with them and bought back the rights to the books he’d written for them.
If you decide to give it a try, let us know what you think in the comments.
Hey, I’m single. Maybe I could try this out as an XGW experiment and come back with my findings. The only problem would be that I wouldn’t be able to compare it to places like Chemistry.com, which has always been serving the gay community. Also, how would I deem it a “successful” site? Having the experiment end in my getting married? lol.
I am going to guess it will be pretty slow starting off. Chemistry .com already attempts to match using criteria and even Match. com has a less extensive matching process. Hardly anyone will be on CP at first.
I wonder what their plans to promote it look like.
Found on Bottom of the Website:
eHarmony Compatibility Matching System® Protected by U.S. Pat. No. 6,735,568
Interesting…
Does Exodus hold any Patents?
Dumb Question, I know, but a curious thought.