Why don't girls post their pics?

I met someone once through a dating site about 6 years ago. The picture he had posted was 15 years old and I had a current picture posted on my profile. When we met I was very shocked as you can imagine. After I got home I pulled my profile off that site and have never visited another dating site to this day.

As for why women don't post pictures of themselves, maybe it because they don't want random pictures of themselves floating around the Internet.

Because some girls prefer to base there relationships and compatibility on the inside not the out!

I'm going to have to disagree with Archer here. I used to belong to a couple of dating sites, and at first, I posted pictures. I stated very clearly on my profile that I was not looking for random hookups and sexual encounters, but rather an actual relationship. I tried to post pictures that were flattering, but not really sexual. Well, I don't want to sound like I'm bragging here, but it's just the truth: I'm a pretty attractive woman. And I got so many creepy, sleazy messages from guys that I made it my policy to provide pictures only upon request after sending a few messages back and forth. Instead, I used a picture that was too distant for anyone to derive anything sexual (it was a picture of me hiking out on a ledge over a waterfall...you could see me, but quite distantly).

I wouldn't go meet a guy off the internet without having sent him a good picture of me first. But after some bad experience, I developed a screening process before providing close-up pictures. I don't do the dating site thing anymore, but there are reasons for not immediately providing pics other than being a fake or a hypocrite. And on that note, yes, I still did look at profiles of guys without pics.

Probably they are afraid of being judged I am sure just as much as guys are. I have found much worse ones who post pics of other girls for whatever reason, and believe it or not on sites I have been contacted by girls with and without pics that their profile seems pretty realistic only to find out later more than likely A the stole someone unsuspecting pics and B they were scammer from Africa looking for me to send them money, and that happened 4 times on one site alone and didn't look like the site did anything about it because still have gotten them after the fact.


Here is another story they want to see what kind of man or thereof quality man who will read the profile and not just gawk at the pic. For me personality means more than looks, trust me looks aren't everything they are only initial.

A lot of profiles on those sites are fake. Spammers and people trying to scam you out of some money. I had someone claiming to be from Nigeria, and she was in town and needing cab fare or something atrocious like that... if you aren't aware of the Nigerian email scam look it up.

Other than that, possibly they get too many sleazy guys sending them messages and they want someone to communicate with a faceless prospect before letting them see who they are. Another reason could be that they don't have any confidence in their appearance, or possibly they don't have any photos of themselves on their computer.

I usually never communicated with the ads which had no pictures, because so many of the profiles that did have pictures turned out to be fake profiles. It's easier to make a profile with no picture and not have to make anything up except a description. Finding several pictures of someone to use on a fake profile takes more effort.

I don't bother with the dating sites any more, as you can never be sure who you are communicating with, and the first impressions you emote and see on them are set-in-stone. One typo on your description, or maybe listing a hobby that someone doesn't understand means they never give you a shot. Better to just get shot-down in person :)

The women who are legitimately looking for hookups are afraid of too much attention from people they know. Last thing they want is their coworkers, old classmates or neighbors saying, "Hey! I saw you on the internet dating site". Which defeats the goal of trying to find someone. Another fear is that many women lack confidence in their appearance. Yet in return, they demand the standard requirements out of men: Tall, handsome, race-specific, wealthy, and for those "adult" sites; packing a big one.

The rest of the women are fakes. They post those profiles as a joke, do it as a school project, or as solicitors for websites to take your money and spammers looking to steal any identity info from you. In many cases, you can't even trust the profiles with pics, too easy to download pics from porn sites and hope nobody notices the fake pics. Even your most famous dating sites like Yahoo Personals and E-Harmony have way too many fakers.

Take my experienced word on this input. I have wasted way too much time and money on those dating sites to no appreciable results. It would help if I was taller and younger but in recent years, even this makes little difference. Just too many spammers out there.

Remember the dating rules: women are not to aggressively seek out men, it's unlady like. We are supposed to approach them first, regardless of the risks men face.