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Claudia Parsons has filed this report about new documentary television series "Hooking Up" which follows 11 New York women navigating the pitfalls of online dating in a show that one reviewer calls "hard-core voyeurism." The ABC News show, a cross between the hit comedy “Sex and the City” and a reality TV show, shines a light on the increasingly popular American pastime and pulls no punches.

"You can get a couch, you can get a bike, you can get a boyfriend, you can get laid," opera singer Shelly says on the show about how the Internet can give a woman all she needs. Including  sexy men.

From hair salon manager Cynthia, who describes one date as "pure torture," to 28-year-old real-estate broker Amy, who tells a man on a second date "I want to meet a husband," the series, which starts on Thursday, details the trials and tribulations of hunting down Mr. Right.

Executive producer Terence Wrong says "Hooking Up" is no reality show. He likens it to his previous fly-on-the-wall shows about the New York Police Department and a hospital.

"You shouldn’t have to be somber and earnest and make a decided effort not to be entertaining in order to be a legitimate news documentary," Wrong said.

The women in "Hooking Up" are attractive professionals aged between 26 and 38.

Maryam, a half-Iraqi half-Iranian photographer, says she is looking for "marriage material" but ends up attracted to a man whose picture has him lying shirtless on leopard-print sheets.

JUNK IN THE TRUNK

ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Co., contacted major dating Web sites to post ads inviting women to participate in the series, and more than 150 were interviewed. They had to agree to date only men they meet online, and to go out on dates at least once or twice a week.

The men, who were warned in advance their dates would be filmed, are as frank as the women. One man notes that a prospective date only posted pictures showing her from the waist up: "She may be hiding what’s called junk in the trunk."

The show airs at 9 p.m. and while it contains quite open discussion of sex and dating, the cameras melt away if there is any prospect of more than a kiss or a cuddle.

Daily newspaper Newsday said the show was "hardly perfect" but it was hard not to keep watching. "Mostly, it’s hard-core voyeurism," reviewer Verne Gay wrote.

After shooting 1,200 hours of footage over 10 months, Wrong’s conclusion is online dating is effective for "chronically shy" people."Often on the Internet people are deceitful," Wrong said.

"When you show up at a date you could be meeting an ax murderer or a Nobel Prize winner."

With online dating so popular, all manner of niche sites have sprung up. The Australian Dating market has embraced the new way of meeting people with absolute enthusiasm. Now all you have to do to meet someone is join a responsible Dating website and get online asap.

One such site Adult Matchmaker, would be dest described as being suited for the "person who knows what they want" The site has been in Australia since 2002, and boasts over 700,000 members.

Tania Robinson, a 32 year old blond mother of two from Sydney, compares popular Adult Friend Finder to going to a ritzy bar rather than a dingy pub full of "dirty old men.

Even Oxford Street in the heart of Sydney’s gay community has had to sit up and notice the competition from Gay Matchmaker which now has over 200,000 gay members.

Internet Dating sites in Australia have become the single most popular way of meeting new friends in todays modern lifestyle.

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