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Not Ok, Cupid, Not Ok!: 2.5 days of online dating lunacy

 

This week I changed online dating sites (there’s a story there, you’ll hear it next week) I put my profile on the new site around midnight on Sunday. It is now noon on Wednesday. I’m here to share with you some of the cray-cray that has entered by inbox in the last 60 hours. So, without further adieu I will share with you the things that 2.5 days of online dating brought into my life. Enjoy!

file0001653628515 6 sets of measurements – Totally unsolicited. Fun fact: apparently just about everyone on this site has a 9 inch cock- I’m wondering if that was a prerequisite.

 

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 5 requests for pictures – Ones with less clothes than the ones featured in my profile. FYI, nothing in my profile indicates I’d be down for this.

 

 

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 3 offers of pictures – Guess what they wanted to send me pictures of!

 

 

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3 invitations to adultery– To be clear, these were from men who stated that they were in monogamous (as opposed to open or poly) marriages and would be conducting our “relationship” in secret.

 

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2 requests for pegging – I’m just saying, can we let a girl at least learn her password before we ask her to anally penetrate us? Is that too much to ask? Just give me a minute.

 

 

Now, this list has been a lot of fun to put together but it represents only a small fraction of the men I’ve heard from. I did the math: I heard from over 150 guys, this list accounts for 15 (there was some overlap in this list). So, we’re saying about 10% creepy or 90% regular human beings. There were even some really good ones in there- I’ve got some dates lined up already! Don’t let this list scare you, it’s done in jest. Next week we’re going to talk a bit more about online dating- We’ll talk about finding the right site for what you want (and my misadventures in wrong-site dating) and I’ve got some great stuff to show you from Reid Mihalko (who I just adore) and the awesome folks at The Intimacy Dojo about crafting a profile that attracts people you actually want to talk to. It will be a lot of fun!


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JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.

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