Love, True Love

The internet says that "love is a drug"; if that's the case, is a relationship started by eHarmony just a placebo?  In this Wired article, they say that "a patient's hope of getting better and (the) expectation of expert care—the primary placebo triggers in the brain—are particularly acute in societies where volunteers are clamoring to gain access to the most basic forms of medicine."

In other words, to create the greatest placebo effect, you'd want a group of patients who are both desperate for help and trusting of the providers.  eHarmony's clientele is a self-selected group that has entrusted their love lives to a pay website; I don't even trust my masturbation to a pay website - I am not that desperate or gullible.

Would a typical eHarmony couple have fallen in love if they'd met in another context?  If the same couple had met at some shitty dive bar, no matter how well they got to know each other, they might each always be thinking "I need to break up with this trash". 

Ultimately it shouldn't matter where they met, as long as their psychosomatic delusions make them feel better.  But whether or not the love is real, can we at least agree that guys who sign up for eHarmony are just a bunch of dildos?

 

What if you married this chick after a few eDates, then realized the only thing making your dick hard was her boots.