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the amazing part is that these men are getting laid! Maybe not through Craigs List, but some women, somewhere, are bouncing their tits in his face. Astounding.

That isn't a standard response for you? Hell, I get half a dozen a day like that or worse on adult friend finder.

As a guy, it kills me to see something like that response to your ad. I mean to be that illiterate and that clumsy and still possibly find a woman to sleep with when more articulate men go begging is just painful.

That being said, if I received something like that I would go and meet the sender. Sort of like a car crash--you just have to look and see how bad it really is.

B: As a guy, you might go and meet the sender, because you would only get one of those. I get dozens or hundreds of them, and my life is way too interesting to waste my time seeking out car crashes to watch.

Plus every meeting with a guy in meatspace comes with a little risk; in return for the possibility of awesome nookie, that's a risk I'll take. In return for a chance to laugh at a dolt? Not so much.

Sapiophile:

What you say makes sense. Since I am not a woman, I lack the perspective that comes from the experience of having to wade through dozens of idiotic ad responses.

I guess there is a part of me that enjoys the humor and the stories that come out of the weirdness of the casual sex world as much as I do the actual sex.

People like the respondent CC posted are just kind of fascinating to my at a psychological level. I mean I want to understand why someone would write something like that. Does he really think a woman is going to seriously want to read that? And does he think she is really going to be impressed by the numerous typos, etc.? I guess I read something like that and I wonder if the guy is simply a neanderthal or if he is just totally clueless.

I am simply sort of fascinated to find out what would motivate someone to write that sort of socially-stunted and illiterate response.

Ellie: It's pretty typical, but I think for people who aren't on the market, so to speak, the idea that people actually respond like this seems rather unlikely. I was certainly floored at first, and I still somehow manage to be surprised!

sapio: That's just depressing.

B: Yeah, it's baffling, isn't it?

It's entirely possible that this guy comes off much much better in person than in text. Maybe he's not very literate, but sounds much better in speech, looks good, has a nice accent, has some money, who knows. It's hard to say. So if he has good luck meeting women for sex offline, I don't think that's baffling. I'd only be surprised to learn he gets any dates via online services.