: Lesson learned this week: If,

February 15, 2001

Lesson learned this week: If, on a whim, you sign up on an online personals service just before

Valentines Day, people will respond. Approximately 60 people, so far, it would seem. Mostly men in their

40s who are looking to cheat on their wives, and guys who think they're gay but would like to do it with a

women "just the once." I deleted all the really foul ones, but let me just leave here the highlights of two

emails:

Hi crouton

Do you like to be a friend of Iranian well educated tall good lover man? yes? so why don't you write me we

can get toknow each other better.

so long

and

I have a interesting fact for you. A study was done with a group of men and women. They showed the two

groups a variety of visual stimuli. With the group of men they found that pictures of skantilly clad women

enduced a certain response (dilated pupils, endorphin levels increased). With the group of women however,

pictures of skantilly clad men did not have the same effect. But pictures of new born babies and enfants

did. I'll let you draw your own conclusion if you would like to exchage ideas with me feel free.

I also got one from someone who said he was an herbalist and a botanical chemist and a freelancer of an

unusual type and he really liked the greatful dead. To him I couldn't help but write: "Am I insane &

reading things that aren't even there, or are you some sort of weed enthusiast?"

I feel as though I'm the most desireable person in internetland, all of a sudden. Only, the desirers leave

something to be desired.

Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at February 15, 2001 11:59 PM