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It has come to the attention of some of my readers and more than a few respondents that my Craigslist ads have been almost puritanically free from any mention of sex.
I guess that's a fair observation if you're viewing each post within the context of the full 100 days I have planned. My concern however, is that devoting an entire Craigslist post to the topic of sex, at least one posted to the same category in which I've been posting, makes me seem at minimum, a little unclassy. At least to those women who read it out of context.
Let me clarify one point. I'm not a prude; I'm just a traditionalist in a very small and inscrutable number of ways. I wear a tie to work. I drink cocktails with gin instead of vodka. I drive an domestic V8 sedan. And I generally try to separate sex from any situation where drinking is frowned upon. That includes work, posting to the internet, and driving in view of the police.
Sex is pretty far down my list of motivations for this project, but it would be self-importantly separating myself from the rest of humanity, or more accurately, from the rest of vertebrate life, to deny that it's any part of the reason. I can come off as overly intellectual, but it's silly to ignore one biological imperative when I've spent entire e-mail conversations talking mostly about another (sandwiches, in this case.)
You can, however, safely assume that I'm at least not consciously making any of my dating decisions with sex as a goal. I honestly prefer that timetables for that sort of thing be determined by whiskey and television schedules. My ease with the subject should not be taken as apathy or a lack of appreciation however.
I view heterosexual women with the same appreciation and bafflement that most people reserve for fire fighters. I have no interest in doing what you do, but I'm glad for my own sake, and the good of the world, that someone does.
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I guess that's a fair observation if you're viewing each post within the context of the full 100 days I have planned. My concern however, is that devoting an entire Craigslist post to the topic of sex, at least one posted to the same category in which I've been posting, makes me seem at minimum, a little unclassy. At least to those women who read it out of context.
Let me clarify one point. I'm not a prude; I'm just a traditionalist in a very small and inscrutable number of ways. I wear a tie to work. I drink cocktails with gin instead of vodka. I drive an domestic V8 sedan. And I generally try to separate sex from any situation where drinking is frowned upon. That includes work, posting to the internet, and driving in view of the police.
Sex is pretty far down my list of motivations for this project, but it would be self-importantly separating myself from the rest of humanity, or more accurately, from the rest of vertebrate life, to deny that it's any part of the reason. I can come off as overly intellectual, but it's silly to ignore one biological imperative when I've spent entire e-mail conversations talking mostly about another (sandwiches, in this case.)
You can, however, safely assume that I'm at least not consciously making any of my dating decisions with sex as a goal. I honestly prefer that timetables for that sort of thing be determined by whiskey and television schedules. My ease with the subject should not be taken as apathy or a lack of appreciation however.
I view heterosexual women with the same appreciation and bafflement that most people reserve for fire fighters. I have no interest in doing what you do, but I'm glad for my own sake, and the good of the world, that someone does.
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