How ClueChick discovered CE
I was thinking today, as I was avoiding doing my paying job, that I don't think I've talked about how it is I discovered the Casual Encounters section of Craig's List in the first place. Back in the day, of course, I was as sweet and innocent as... well, okay, even then I wasn't exactly sweet and innocent, but I had been dating the same person for ages and really wasn't interested in casual sex because I was sure it just wasn't for me.
One of my friends -- you all know her, in fact, as it's the one and only sapiophile -- told me about the CE section in a somewhat disbelieving voice. I was amazed and delighted to hear of such a thing, but I was also confused. Could there possibly be, I wondered, enough people who look for that sort of thing to support a whole section on Craig's List? I looked, and by gum, there certainly was.
Satisfied with my sociological discovery, carried on with my life.
Some months later, I had my first one night stand, completely spontaneously and somewhat by accident (I would have seen him again, though if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have been willing to), and I really enjoyed it. By then, I was single and had no desire to be dating, but I suddenly saw the light with regards to casual sex. Well, thought I, OkCupid delivered the first one, but how do I find more of these guys? (Have I told you all about my first one night stand? I don't remember.)
Then I remembered some vague memory about Craig's List, a sociological discovery, and bafflement at people who would look for this very thing.
Aren't I lucky that someone else thought of it before I did, so all I had to do was sign on?
