Are there any real women on Craig's List?
One of the most common questions/complaints about Craig's List, especially the Casual Encounters section, is, "Are there any women out there? If I post an ad, will an actual woman ever read it? Those rare w4m ads... are they really women?" Naturally, it's not as simple an answer as you might like.
First, obviously, yes, there are women out there. I'm one of them, and I know some others, too. We do read some of your ads, and we also respond to some of them. Furthermore, we post our own ads and read the responses we get.
That said, lots of the purported women are not really women. This is a fact of life on the internet, and if it's going to piss you off, you should stick to interacting with people face-to-face. If you post an appealing ad, there's a reasonable chance that you will hear from a bold fellow who figures it's worth a shot to see if you're bi, or, at least, heteroflexible. And some of the w4m posts are written by men hoping to get some nice pictures. Others are written by webcam businesses to snag your email address and spam you with offers to view their cam, for a small fee, of course.
It's not always easy to distinguish the "real" women from the posers and spammers, but we're out there.
