Because people are lazy.

Before someone jumps down my throat with a terminator tank, no, I'm not talking about [i]everyone[/i] who goes there. There are people who genuinely just want to do a long standing role play with a partner. Not with a group, just a partner, and that's not lazy, no, that's a personal preference.

[b]Lazy[/b] is just how prevalent the... "Romance" in 1x1 is. You could also describe it as sleazy. It's low-class entertainment for vagabonds and the generally immature. I put it in quotations because there's two kinds of romance. Everyone claims to be type 1, most are type 2.

[b]#1:[/b] Romance as a genre choice, a thematic style, not as the singular dominating point. It's not about wangst, it's simply a story that happens to contain romance. It's one of the two genres that traditionally cannot stand on its own anyway: You see a lot of romantic comedies in film for this reason.

[b]#2:[/b] Because they want [s]porn[/s], er, [s]a quickie[/s], uhm, what I mean is, they want [s]a ton of PG13 cybersex[/s]... 

Look there's no nice way to put this, but a lot of the "romance" in 1x1 is literally just a series of meat shops. Stop me when you've seen this before: [Title]x[Title]. Like WerewolfXVampire, GirlXBoy, etc. [b]This is literally the definition of a meat shop, where you select what kind of meat you want to pound[/b]. And cook. :hehe

Why is 1x1 so sleazy and lazy? Because it's fucking easy. First of all, you usually only want a single partner, and 1x1 is all about that. Second of all, you only need to get one other person to agree, and 1x1 is all about that. Third of all, the very title itself is kind of a dead giveaway: 1[b]x[/b]1. Yes, it can stand for one on one. It can also stand for something else that is definitely not PG13 and would make Fonz blush brighter than the sun at mid day in Norway during the summer.

As if the meat shopping wasn't enough of a problem, you also have a lot of people there who register and basically just stay in that section permanently, without ever having read the rules on the site. For example: How many times have you seen comments about "adult content" being partially or even completely allowed in one way or another? Or even having to mention adult content allowance or denial... On a site that flat out denies adult content.

Again, not saying everyone who wants to RP in the 1x1 section is lazy or sleazy, there are some people who genuinely just want a partner... But the majority of it is just cheap, sleazy, lazy, softcore [i]pornography[/i]. If you're [i]really[/i] lucky, it might be censored.