tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24675356.post4785924753546741486..comments2023-07-11T04:00:56.031-04:00Comments on Irreverent: Musings on Faith, Love, Life and Politics: Sex Education: the post-grad versionWallacewriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664895798688527246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24675356.post-15872990908770153592009-11-07T17:29:11.006-05:002009-11-07T17:29:11.006-05:00I love the shoes on your blog, BigLittleWolf. You ...I love the shoes on your blog, BigLittleWolf. You have awesome taste. However I'm awful at any kind of hand sewing.<br /><br />And let's not talk shoe fetishes, or grown women dressed up as schoolgirls...<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder if knowing more about the inner life of some men is useful...all I can figure out is that now I could write a truly awful porn novel.Wallacewriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15664895798688527246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24675356.post-12632343255550712972009-11-07T16:38:26.061-05:002009-11-07T16:38:26.061-05:00I online dated for years before I realized - it do...I online dated for years before I realized - it doesn't work. Chemistry is felt in person, not in checkboxes and paragraphs of online prose. <br /><br />Still, online dating is a useful tool for meeting random strangers for random events - coffee, drinks, sex. <br /><br />In ten years of divorce, I've only met one girlfriend online. Every other woman I dated seriously was someone I met in real life, mostly through friends. BBQs, dinner parties, block parties, etc. <br /><br />There's a reason TIME magazine named eHarmony one of the 5 worst websites of 2007 - namely, for its “power to cause utter despair.”<br /><br />I leave you with two blog posts. The first, a general post about online dating: http://dadshouseblog.com/2008/09/29/online-dating-expectations/<br /><br />The second, a funny story from a specific date: http://dadshouseblog.com/2008/02/15/online-dating-expert-sadly/dadshousehttp://dadshouseblog.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24675356.post-77792346846178024892009-11-07T13:58:19.464-05:002009-11-07T13:58:19.464-05:00Believe me - it isn't just NYC. It's every...Believe me - it isn't just NYC. It's everywhere, and with the same variations on a theme (and then some). I've done the online dating thing on two sides of the Atlantic; fascinating enterprise, really, if you can retain your sense of humor. <br /><br />Perhaps you should find a poet you prefer, the right shoes, and a hobby. Like needlepoint or patchwork quilts. Kegel exercises, just in case. Drinking.<br /><br />I recall some Pennsylvania days of my own, early 80s. Pre-marriage, pre-kids, innocent in the gambits of sexual forays of many sorts. All we had were bars, and believe me, that scene was no better. At least online, you needn't hop on the interstate, and worry about having more than one glass of wine. <br /><br />(Enjoyed. Wonderfully written.)BigLittleWolfhttp://dailyplateofcrazy.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com