29 October 2007
Platonicpartners.co.uk is a website specifically launched for “online daters” who seek nothing more than a loving relationship. Platonicpartners.co.uk says that it will help the silent minority of adults seeking “celibate, platonic, non-physical or partly physical relationships” and help them to find a mate.
The site was founded by Susie King, a former life coach, who was moved to set up the forum after a close friend attempted suicide because of his sexual impotence. He did not want a future without a loving relationship. The issue had also come up repeatedly during her work as a life coach, with clients admitting that they could not or did not want to have sex any more, but still sought love and affection.
I started to do some research into how many people might be in the same boat and the figures suggested it could be as many as five million at any one time,
she said. That data came from the Sexual Dysfunction Association, a charity originally dedicated to male impotence. These days it offers support for a wide range of conditions in men and women, including low libido. Its research found that a third of women have no sex drive at all either permanently or at some point in their life. It also found that the effects of sexual problems are profound. One fifth of men with sexual problems said that it had led to the break-up of their marriage or relationship.
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