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Have a seat. Switch on the computer. Dial into a network. Type in a password. And welcome to the world of the WELL -- the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Romance may be just a few keystrokes or the click of a mouse away. The California-based electronic bulletin board is one of the many new cybersocieties where men and women can meet and message each other in a network less smoky than a singles bar, less nerve-racking than a blind date. There are no worries about appearances. No flesh. No sweat. Utopia? No way. Romance gone awry has gummed...
Meet Lisa, Nancy and Beth (not their real names). In January, Lisa, 42, made contact with a man by way of the electronic bulletin board. Entranced with his terminal manner, Lisa allowed their e-mail relationship to progress to "voice-level" -- that is, they called each other and soon were satisfying < their mutual lust in steamy phone sex that sometimes lasted up to four hours. The bills were huge. He lived on the East Coast, she on the West. Lisa thought she was in love, and she believed he felt the same...
Lisa was so enthralled with her bulletin-board lover that she decided to move on to what WELL users call an F2F -- a face-to-face. She agreed to split the cost of a plane ticket to fly her telephonic paramour to the West Coast. "We had a great weekend," she says, "including fabulous sex." But afterwards her lover turned cold, and the e-mail correspondence dissolved. A heartbroken Lisa grieved on a section of the network called WOW (Women on the WELL) -- where no men are allowed. And that is how she met Beth and Nancy and discovered that...
...admits he conducted cyberrelationships with more than one woman at a time, he insists he is the victim in this matter. "I feel my privacy was radically violated," he says of the women's electronic onslaught. "I didn't make any relationship promises I didn't keep." In the bulletin-board free-for-all, he wrote, "I believe that I was supportive, caring and tender with these women. I gave as good as I got." He adds, "I was experimenting in a new area for me. I didn't think that the same concerns about fidelity I apply reflexively...
...bulletin appears to have been posted there for nearly four years. Dated October 10, 1989, it is called, simply, "Gilbert Laboratory Notebook Practice...