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The funny thing is that you can have some pretty intimate encounters online and find the feeling hard to transfer to the experience of meeting someone face-to-face. I know that sounds strange and counterintuitive, but it's a surprisingly common experience.

I know that most people find communicating through a computer fairly impersonal. Everything is typed, standardized and anonymous, but in a strange way that's why it's possible to have such intimate encounters.

When you first start talking to someone online, you can really say anything to them because there's so little consequence. They're nothing but a name and email address or a chat-window and you can ask and answer questions with very little self-consciousness, because you're talking with someone who has no footprint in your life and, if anything goes wrong, things can simply end with no collateral damage, awkward encounters or chance meetings.

A lot of people find that they can say things to a virtual stranger over the Internet that they can't say out loud to a close friend. The feeling of freedom is liberating, as you can suddenly reveal all your desires and hang-ups to another human being. This can create a fairly strong bond between two people very quickly and, in spite of the impersonal beginnings, can become something that matters quite a lot.

Once you've found someone you hit it off with out of all the sexy Arab women you've met online, it's easy to get overexcited about all that can come next. Now the difficult thing is to pick a moment in time where you can meet and still be comfortable with each other.

When the medium through which you communicate changes, suddenly the dynamic of the relationship changes, too, and you might be faced with a bit of awkwardness. The trick is to let the relationship grow enough so that the difficulty of meeting in person doesn't cause such a problem.