Online dating is finally going in the right direction.

After months of utter disappointment in my search to find that one true love, including various attempts at eHarmony.com, Match.com, and the falsely advertised Perfectmatch.com, someone has finally answered my calls for help.

His name is Jason Pellegrino, and along with business partner Sean Cohen, he has created the site HotEnough.org, a dating site that is for only the hottest of human specimens.

Like myself.

According to an article on CNN, the site works by forcing would-be daters to submit three photos to the site as a sort of "application." The people who are already members vote on how hot the person is based on their looks, and if the person scores an 8 or higher, they are allowed to become a member and date other hotties for a monthly price of $9.95. If they score lower than an 8, they are sent an email telling them that they should probably put a mask on or something when they walk the streets, because they are in fact that ugly.

Just kidding. They don't get that email, but I bet they still feel pretty ugly afterwards. And they should.

It's just nice to know that people are finally realizing the most important aspect to being attractive to someone is their looks. All too often, I have visited these dating sites hoping to find that Victoria Secret model-esque woman that just happens to love watching football and playing video games. Suffice to say, I haven't found her yet. But I believe this website will change everything.

A lot of people have begun to criticize the Web site for putting too much emphasis on looks rather than what's on the inside, whatever that means. They say it only perpetuates our already obsessive behavior of looking in the mirror and ridiculing our every flaw.

But how is that a bad thing? Let me remind you "critics" that we are going through an obesity epidemic. Maybe this is exactly what we need in order to get people get off their computer chairs and start exercising. Every day our country is getting fatter, and everything method we've applied to solve this problem, whether it is Jenny Craig, Tae-Bo or the South Beach Diet, has failed. Maybe nothing's worked because it has always been a "choice" to become healthy. Now, with sites like HotEnough.org, we're forcing people to be get in shape, or at least receive a buttload of plastic surgery, if they really want to have a well-balanced, serious relationship.

Yet, this is apparently a problem.

The real problem is that it has become too hard to meet the right person over the Internet. Well, the right person who fits the perfect archetype of what you want in your significant other and is incredibly good looking.

I thought finding a girl in the real world was tough, but when you go online, it's a whole new ball game. Not only do you have to carry out a conversation with this person over the Web, but you have to guess whether or not this person is who he or she says they are. You may think you're talking to a 20-year-old femme fatale with blonde hair and blue eyes, but most likely, you're talking to a 43-year-old man who lives in his mother's basement and has enough chest hair to open up his own carpet store.

It happens a lot. Trust me.

Then, when you finally do find the sites that force people to post pictures, you realize that none of them are even that attractive. Then it dawns on you —Attractive people aren't dating online because they are attractive. They don't need to go on the Internet, because they're so good looking, people are always going after them. Of course, then you wonder why you're on the Internet trying to find a date online, and if you're me, you realize you just happen to be the exception.

Which leads to the beauty of HotEnough.org. It's a site where all of us "exceptions" can finally come together and date. It gets rid of all the crap that other sites put you through, like taking personality tests and telling databases what side of the bed you generally sleep on, as if that makes any difference. Instead, it focuses on the only thing that truly matters: physical perfection.

And that is something everyone should strive for.

Reach columnist Eric Uthus at opinion@thedaily.washington.edu.