I need, nay, the intellectual engagement, and legions of smart, educated men feel similarly.

So it pains me to no end to see my smart, educated, lovely female friends remain single, alone and lonely in spite of their best efforts. Surely there is something wrong with the world if they remain single for so long.

A smart woman wants to date a smart man, since men less intelligent than her frankly bore her to tears.

She wants to be able to hold a stimulating conversation with her partner and to know that he's at least equal to her (if not better) in this department.

This fact is usually dispelled by women who don’t fit the mold of this with statements such as “you can have ANY guy you want” or “you’re one to complain”.

This gives the beauty instant guilt resulting in the not-so-hot girl feeling better about herself and the beauty thinking there may be some truth to this.

Going into the dating pool, the beauty has to battle against insecure men, unspoken stigmas (will explain in the next paragraph) and female haters (who aren’t as hot).

“Beautiful women who get a fair amount of attention get full of themselves,” he says.

In one part, the researchers looked at the top 20 actresses on IMDb and found that they tend to have rocky marriages.

In another, women were asked to judge the attractiveness of 238 men based on their high school yearbook photos from 30 years ago.

The two services used by these individuals were OKCupid and Match.com, two of the largest and most popular dating websites on the Internet.

What I learned from carrying out an interview of a female and the interview of a male trying to dig into this intriguing subject was that using the Internet for dating is equally painful for men and for women, but for very different reasons.