Big Beautiful Women (BBW, in standard personals lingo) can use the Internet to find a relationship, just like anyone else. While the dominant paradigm for beauty in the mass media at the moment tends toward thin women, it has not always been the case that the most venerated and desired women in the world are size fours. Popular culture is fickle, but there are always people with personal taste that has nothing to do with what they're being sold by advertisements and inane sitcoms.

Be Honest and Find a Person with Whom You Are Compatible

If you've tried internet dating as a larger person, you have probably encountered a situation with someone who abruptly broke off contact upon finding out that you weren't their physical type. People do that to others for a lot of reasons, but there's no question that superficial concerns top the list. Then again, you have to wonder if a person who was talking to you every day as if she was totally into you suddenly cut off communication because her husband (whom you've never heard about) found out, or because an ex decided that he wanted her back. Unquestionably, two of the pitfalls of online dating are the fact that unexpected rudeness is possible, and it's pretty easy to lie.

That being said, there are still a lot of great reasons to try internet dating, and there are a myriad of success stories to prove it. If you're honest about who you are and what you want, you can find someone who's on the same page. If you want to find someone to meet at a bar tonight, you can do that. If you want to find someone to talk to and get to know very slowly, you can do that, too.

You probably realize that there is a big difference between people who either like or don't mind a heavier partner and people who take it to an obsessive level. This serves only as a caution that if you self-identify as a BBW, you need to be on the lookout for people who may not see you as an individual, but a fetish. The same thing can happen to Asian women, Russian women, petite women, and so on--the peril does not necessarily increase proportionally with the introduction of the Internet, but you always have to be careful.