Personal Adds

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by jbs on January 20, 2004 @ 2:41 pm

Personal adds are strange things. Theoretically, personal adds should be the best thing since sliced bread for dating.
I mean, we use the market for everything else, why not us too?

Ebay should totally get into personal adds. But here’s the thing, personal adds have recently gotten into vogue. I think
a big part of it is that internet personals tend to have pictures. And judging from the “featured personals” on the onion
These people are what I’m talking about.

Casual sex must be back in style. I’ve heard that, through friends who are younger (and lets face it) more in touch with the Yoot than I am, but how can this be? How can causual sex have come back in the midst of a dramatic increase in a broad spectrum of STDS.

Oh.

I am not against sex. I am not against casual sex (though if having sex with you is casual you should work on your technique :) ). What I do have a problem with is people being risky without need or caution. These 20 year olds looking for Play in the online personals kinda freak me out. I think all the doom and gloom surrounding sex when I went to school didn’t work because not enough people died. The speeches worked, the problem is now people don’t think it’s a problem.
Or worse, it’s someone elses problem.

This situation may be like those dumbasses on the drive weaving in traffic in their motorcycles with their girlfriends on the back wearing high heels. My wife seems them and get’s pissed because they should be wearing helmets and I ussually remind her that the problem isn’t that they aren’t wearing helmets it’s that too few of them every really crash.

Anyway, you should look at these personal adds. Even if your not looking, because they are an infant social movement that is gaining ground.



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace