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HotEnough.org launches for those ultra-sexy people
A site launched today called "HotEnough.org." It is a site based purely on looks. Doesn't matter if Betty Jean has no education, is an absolute moron or can't tell you the capitol of NY, as long as she has big hoohas, a nice rump or long legs, she is in! What about Jake, if he has a 6 pack, lots of tats, or big biceps, he too is in. Doesn't matter that he is a jerk and a loser, as long as he is "sexy" he is in.
HotEnough CEO states Jason Pellegrino, "Let's face it. Most guys, and women I know, judge heavily on looks alone. And initially, when you're surfing an online dating profile, what more do you have to go by? Do you really care what the last book was that someone read."
Interesting note, it appears they "borrowed" their terms statement from Match.com. Easy to tell that it was not created first-hand because the company name is listed as "Hotenough" whereas the name on the site is "HotEnough."
Here is the HotEnough terms: http://www.hotenough.org/terms.aspx and here is Match.com's statement: http://www.match.com/registration/membagr.aspx
After meeting the criteria and passing an initial audition set in place by the site and a panel of judges, those who come out with a score of 8-10 on the Hot-O-Meter for the voting process will be honored with a free membership.
Applicants submit three photos, including a full body shot, to the site for consideration. If the site administrators determine the applicant is "hot enough", he or she is granted prospective member status and then moves on to the voting area. Prospective members must then receive twenty-five votes from other HotEnough.org members of the 8+ sort.
There appears to be subscription options, though I cannot find them. To register, you submit your photos, wait for the CEO to judge you, then after you pass that test, the other people on HotEnough must vote you into the active pool of "hotties." The site has a link for prospective members, but it takes you nowhere.
Lame. Lame. Lame.
Thank you 8.2!
For saying what I was thinking.
After clicking X on people I wasn’t attracted to on match.com
so many times I am definitely ready to go for this site,
it’s been long enough. People have actually asked me why I am still single!! Like there must be something wrong with me – I will go to a place where there are other hot people who are single and are not surprised that hot people can be single.
I am not worried about racism – my hotness is so radiant it blows
through racial barriers!
oh and I want cute kids – the guy who said something about celebrities
having ugly parents – um not all celebrities are good looking.
And there is this urban legend about ugly parents having good looking
kids – that’s an aberration – you only notice it so much because
it’s an aberration. I am going for the cute baby-daddy thank you
very much! I agree with “I am a hot woman and” on that point
I wrote the above comment – I just wanted to add that I like online dating because…
i) I am shy
and
ii)I can learn more about the person from their profile than I would meeting them in a bar or supermarket – so it’s not about desperation as someone above suggested it’s about being picky and wanting to know before you choose.
It gets overwhelming to try to deal with “attentions” from so many people in the real world, so much noise that you want to switch it off – everything starts to sound like a cat-call and you condition yourself to ignore. Usually you have no additional information to make your decision on regarding whether to give a guy your number or not so often it’s easier to avoid having to decide based on looks alone – yes I said it! and go online where I can read the person’s profile quietly at home and have a better idea of what the person is like without the hectic situations outside where you could miss someone nice because they are not as “aggressive”. Besides, with online dating I know the person can at least read and write.
To “The main thing I care about”
It’s not just “ugly” people who spend a lot of time developing their personalities – it’s people who understand that they are imperfect and want to be more or better regardless of their looks. For instance I am a perfect ten in looks but I think if it weren’t for my shrink I would be a total psycho so I invest a lot of time in “developing my personality” – which pretty much means learning to relate to others in a way that is as positive as possible for me first and then for the people I am interacting with. If I hadn’t felt that I was lacking in some way – which in my case was not physical beauty I would not have begun the self-work which I am and have been in the process of doing for close to a decade and I will probably never stop working on. If my shrink were listed on the stock exchange I would invest!
Oh and with all this talk of cute kids I have to add – the thing about having a cute kid and I know it’s not politically correct to say this but it’s important enough to me that I’ll say it anyway – you will have to be more watchful as a parent. I was a cute kid, not the gangly awkward kids who later become supermodels you hear about, I was always beautiful and I was also sexually abused as a child and even now I sometimes wonder if that was why. Some months into it my mom suspected, before I said anything, and she rescued me. She was a teen beauty queen by the way (oh and my Dad was handsome), later when I was an adult she told me she couldn’t quite pin it but she felt something familiar from her own childhood so she removed the person involved from all interaction with my family – maybe now there’s a branch of the family tree out there I don’t know about but I am glad – yes, my Mom kicks ass that hard! Needless to say if I get the chance to be a mom I will be one of those overprotective moms – it stops with me – Momzilla!!
I know this might be downer on the discussion, but I had to say it. Thanks for the therapy now…
Please carry on! As you were!
I love how so many people get so upset at stuff like this… obviously ugly people.
OK one LAST comment: I would like to point this quote from an article I just found to the above anonymous person who mentioned Pellegrino himself is no looker:
“A man named Jason Pellegrino and his business partner created HotEnough.org, stating that online dating just doesn’t have enough hot-looking people and that their site will bring a lot more attractive people to the dating scene. Pellegrino himself has been rated as a 8.2 on a 10 point scale.”
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/198527/hotenoughorg_the_worst_dating_site.html
so APPARENTLY this guy is considered twice as hot as me by some? Well I reiterate my previous thought… something fishy in the air indeed
The above article also quotes that current members vote on who is allowed entrance. So…thinking *that* through a bit, with basic common sense will predict the possibility of a kind of trend in people who look a certain way, perhaps with a predilection for people look similar to them, choosing those people, and that resulting larger pool of people continuing to choose similar-looking people… I am not talking ethnic origin here necessarily but I find people do tend to gravitate towards people who look similar in social relationships… tall people with other tall people, a few blondes together. I rarely notice an exotic looking Asian chick with a midwestern looking blue eyes blond friend. Just a thought.
I like the idea, actually. Superficial attraction is part of human nature.
“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is a commonly used phrase, but IMO if the cover doesn’t turn your head you probably would have never picked up the book to begin with.
It all boils down to genes and the ability to provide. That’s why money and good looks are generally the criteria for getting together and often the catalyst for breaking up.
Although, I do agree that the “wait til the CEO judges you” thing is pretty lame. They should have done that differently.
OK…quite frankly what gives this Pellegrino guy the “right” to judge anybody. I just caught his interview on FOX News and he’s no looker to begin with(probably a three on his own scale…hey…there’s an idea…let his members judge him…probably wouldn’t work becuase he would then be unable to access his own site). It sounds like someone was a nerd earlier in life and is trying to find a way to get back at all the pretty people who turned him down…LAME
I too saw the Fox News interview, and jokingly signed up. I was ready to be turned down, and to have a little laugh about it. To my surprise, I ended up being a 8.2 out of 10 thus being accepted as a member.
Couple things…
Pros:
1) People assume the better looking someone is the dumber they are. Most of the people on this site have an extensive education background.
2) Might seem obvious but every single person is attractive enough to pursue something further. I will be the first to admit 90% of my decision to go on a date with a girl is based on looks…so this is a plus.
3) While it seems they have copied other sites for the basic info outline, I think it is a very good template to judge a potential date.
4) Rates are very good.
Cons:
1) The whole CEO judging thing needs to be fixed, and in due time they will need to with more people trying to become members.
2) The number of members as of right now is pathetic, due to its early stages. I currently live in Indiana, and am moving to Tampa Bay and there is only 1 girl within 100 miles of both of my locations combined.
3) The whole site is fairly hard to navigate.
Overall the site is alright right now, but in due time I think this site will thrive.
What a brilliant idea! Pay good-looking hookers to post their pictures on a website for socially inept losers to connect with. I love it. This guy will be be a millionaire, and I want to buy stock!
This is degrading. Why would a person subject themselves to such subjective criticism? Hopefully no Christian singles would lower themselves to this level
Why are you so angry? I am not a hooker! I am a highly educated, extremely athletic (Ironman triathlete),attractive, business woman (own restaurants and work them). . To make it better I am a mother too! Keep your insulting remarks to yourself. You are just showing the world how insecure you happen to be. If someone wants to go on a “dating site” don’t judge them…maybe it’s time for you to take a look at yourself?? Hooker? No just a good looker!
David says that this is degrading and stupid.
Those other guys said it was fantastic (for reasons both financial and superficial).
Who’s right?
Well, there are stereotypes for everyone, including hot people. No, I’m not even going to bother going around the bush and saying ‘attractive’ people, this site is obviously only for ‘hot’ people. And not really for people, for men.
Think about it. Women take a million things into consideration before dating a guy; his income, education, family, previous relationships, etc.. If women went on looks alone (as most men do), she’s considered shallow and close-minded.
Men go by looks and are totally supported by society. ON THE OTHER HAND, however, it really is a natural born thing for men to only date a woman if he thinks she’s…’worthy’.
But you know, it just gets harder and harder for me to vouch for HotEnough when I look at the pictures of their singles…Either all the women look like they’re either “OMG, OOYL!!1!” (”Omigod, out of your league!”) or, frankly, quite appalling, and the men all seem to be of Latino descent…
(Seriously, page through the ‘men’ part of the latest hotties. They are all CLONES.)
Then again, part of me really wants to support this.
If you aren’t happy unless you’re with someone who’s beautiful (ahem, ‘hot’), then there should be a site for you, just like there’s a site for Christians, and homosexuals, and black people, and Asian people, and Jewish people, and fetishists, etc..
It’s almost patriotic to even HAVE this site, because it really shows that US citizens have the freedom to do this sort of thing (even at the critisism of others).
And then I remember that it wasn’t really started with that dreamy intent. HotEnough was started by a fairly average guy who felt like he could make a good buck off of this idea, even though he wasn’t the first one to think it up.
Check out this site:
http://us.beautifulpeople.net/close_fullscreen.htm
Although it was started in Europe and therefore not as critisized as US born HotEnough, Beautifulpeople Network was first.
There are a million pros and cons to HotEnough and .com’s similar to it, but really, it all boils down to this:
“If you people are SO f*ck*ng hot, then get offline.”
Sometimes the most beautiful or hottest people are the lonliest because everybody thinks they must have a boy or girl friend, but in truth they struggle to find that right partner as everyone else. Not only that but hurts even more because they wonder why they can’t find that right partner even though they me be considered “hot” and “beautifu”. What can they do as most likely you will get bypassed by many potential prospects since they would think that this guy is so gorgeous or this woman is so hot and beautiful, they must be taken, there is no way they can be single. Sometimes beauty and being considered hot can be an omen, and some of the lonliest people in the world are hot and beautiful.
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I don’t think hot girls need to be on sites like this to get dates. Perhaps vanity is some factor. Not sure this really is a major appeal for hot women. I believe MillionaireMatch.com is more of a draw than this site for hot women
I am a hot woman and I am totally going to try this site. We can get dates but most of the time they are of sub-optimal hotness. I want a hot boyfriend. I also don’t want to have ugly babies – you know the ones where people go “Oh wow, cute… shoes” hahaha. I can’t punish my future kids by picking an ugly baby-daddy!
It’s not that girls need to be on sites like this to get dates… The idea is for girls to find out where all the better looking guys are so she can date them. There are way too many ugly guys out there hitting on girls and it gets quite tiring after awhile. But even an average looking guy can look better if he at least wears clothing that will attract the opposite sex instead of looking like he just rolled out of bed. There are also way too many fat guys out there!! Please lose the gut!
Hotenough.org is not only degrading, but also racist.
Think about it for a second. Epithets like nigger, cracker, spic, mic, all those other shit words ubiquitously floating out there in the world, are hateful and completely unnecessary. So is labeling someone as “ugly” or “fat”, same hate-driven meaning, just different words.
It’s sad to see that America has come to a place where looks matter the most in not only relationships, but every facet of life. Personality isn’t shit compared to a symmetrical face, gleaming white teeth, the perfect abs and the perfect body, etc.
So, f#$@ HotEnough.org, f#$^ its creator, and f#$@ all the superficial, condescending bastards that joined it, women or man, I don’t care.
The reason this site makes no sense is because online dating sites were made for “ordinary” (society’s universal definition, another stupid thing espoused by people with no souls) people. They need the sites because of people like you, racist, lookist bastards who judge prematurely. They need them, when all you “beautiful” people have to do is walk outside to get a date.
sounds like someone has a bad case of ugly
Spare me the “beauty on the inside” crap. You can waste a lot of time on a person who doesn’t have the basic discipline to skip a Big Mac or do 3 hours a week of body maintenance. What nobody has the balls to say is that this is a CHARACTER flaw, and it factors into their personality. Keeping fit requires a specific lifestyle and that site is matching people up by that as much as looks. Without full body picts other sites are ignoring the fundamental criteria humans have used to judge attractiveness since they crawled out of the muck. And if you need a Christian perspective on that go read the Song of Solomon in the Bible.
The whole voting process thing has me wondering…. A previous poster mentioned that all the guys “look like clones” but didn’t say much about the variety of women. But, several blogs have pointed out that there is little or no ethnic diversity. So, that has me wondering, since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, are people judging based on who is actually attractive or just solely on their personal preference? B/c if that were the case all blonde or brown eyed people would be getting a few point deduction from me! But hey, that’s just how I roll…
That also brings up the race/ethnicity thing as well. Just b/c one person wouldn’t date outside their race that does not speak for everyone. Not fair to prospective & current members who may suffer from a few peoples’ prejudices. Also, do both sexes vote freely or just men vote for women and vice versa? Because, that leaves the door open to haters who don’t want the competition. As anyone who has worried about a GPA before knows, just one or two below passing marks can drop your A average down to a C. I dunno, a 25 member vote on three pictures and NO OTHER INFO? It seems a little arbitrary to me.
Dude, you’re freaking hilarious.
Girl, you are funny! You can’t be serious otherwise you would have realized that most of the beautiful celebreties in the show biz or in Hollywood have average looking parents. And they themselves don’t have the best looking kids. Good luck in life.
All this comments about this website amuse me a lot.
I tell you WHO gives Jason Pellegrino the “right to judge”:
all the people that put themselves in such a position!!!
Nobody forces this pretty people to sign up on this stupid website.
So if you think this is wrong (which I DO, altough I work as a model), don’t log on to this website and teach your kids some values in life so they don’t feel to sign up for such a crap either.
The main thing I care about in a girl is looks. There are plenty of very good looking girls who have great personalities too, so, if you are a desirable man, and looks are important to you (as they are to most men), why bother with a woman who doesn’t physically appeal to you.
Like my mother told me, it’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich woman as a poor one. ;-)
However, this site is lame. I signed up weeks ago and have yet to have my account approved. I’m sure they will approve me because I am a very good looking guy. They wrote a couple of e-mails saying “please be patient, we have thousands of applications,” and “it will take 10 business days,” and then I heard nothing else. It’s been weeks.
The site itself looks pretty lame and boring…not very well developed. They are going to have to build the thing first … because now it looks like an amateur hack job.
Everyone is vain, so Im sure the appeal is that people like to see if they make the cut. It’s not a bad idea for a draw. But if they don’t get themselves together, they are going to piss a lot of people like me off who took the trouble to fill out the application and got nothing in return.
I wrote the comment immediately above…
I wanted to mention that by the way, I’m an honors graduate from an Ivy League college and have an extremely high IQ. I don’t think that it is an absolute truth that brains are inversely proportional to looks.
However, from my own personal observations, I do believe that one often finds that people who are not physically attractive often spend more time developing their personalities, perhaps as a compensation for their lack of physical appeal, or perhaps because they have fewer social opportunities and more time to be introspective and pensive.
So, in my experience, sometimes the most interesting people are not especially attractive.
But there is certainly no absolute rule. I know a number of people who have it all. :D
I’m so sick of people bashing this site because:
1. People are shallow. So match and eharmony let anyone on their sites. Are these people any less shallow? No; they are just less attractive. I posted my pic on match and got over 10,000 views, 1200 emails, and 3000 winks, all in 3 months. Do you think its fun for me to sift through all that crap…’cause it’s not!
2. Just because attractive people can pick up people at bars doesnt mean that they meet quality people. We pretty people go to the same bars as ugly people and deal with the same crappy people that everyone else in the dating world has to deal with.
3. There is definitely a market for it. People act like online dating is only for the ugly and desperate. Silly me thought it was for people that are looking for someone special, and just hadn’t found them yet, but hey, what do I know.
4. Being attractive doesnt make you a crappy person, just like being ugly doesnt make you a worthwhile person. Attractiveness is just one of many qualities that I look for/require, but conveniently its a quality that is easy to spot.
And my favorite critic is the one that’s complaining…”but what about the rest of us uglies.Who are we supposed to date.” Truly nothing has been lost here. The people on hotenough were never going to pick someone average (or below) off of a dating site. Guess you’ll have to spam someone else incessantly.
Wow…I can’t believe anybody would actually want to be with someone they found on a “I’m hotter than thou” website. be %^#$ed if i would want to be with an egotistical bitch
I just signed up and so far was voted theough initial phase from CEO but am getting slaughtered in the voting process..lol After 15 votes I am a 6.5! haha
Someone above did mention that if someone gives you a vote of 2 you are basically out!
25 votes is too small.
Great site-hope it gets more popular. This planet over-burdened with ever increasing number of overeating obese people who are themselves unhappy and make people closely related to them ( spouses ) unhappy. Stay fit, stay in shape, live long and make yourself and others happy; thats what it is all about.
Being good looking does not mean being dumb.
I just tested it out too, mostly out of curiosity since I am not photogenic (despite people telling me I should model my whole life), and wanting to compare it to the ratings I got on hotornot.com (ranging from 8.3 to 9.2). I think 25 votes is too small a sample too… I got a 6.9 and was a bit disappointed lol so I didn’t make it. I think the ratings on that sight aren’t measuring with the same norm most use but much more stringently, how the hottest people rate eachother? And I think hotornot is probably somewhat lenient…. or is this hotenough secretly an online prostitution ring full of sexy photos for high class gorgeous hookers? lol I know I didnt turn in any very sexy photos of my skantily clad self…
Also, what i found almost ridiculous really is my first rating was a 4… 4 being below average and I am a bit peeved lol (I am 5′9 110, green eyes and long red hair) – in what world would someone consider me a 4? Maybe I bear a striking resemblance to that voter’s abusive 6th grade math teacher or something? Methinks I smell something fishy…