ClueChick: real clues from a real chick

Has everyone already seen The Midwest Teen Sex Show? If you haven't, you should. It's a riot! Also, how many of us could have used something like this when we were adolescents? Seriously.

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I have some bad news for you all. Are you sitting down? It turns out, shockingly, that people are horrified to learn that you can buy sex on CL. (Thanks to one of my attentive readers for bringing this editorial to my inbox.)

I wonder if people will ever get over being shocked that huge portions of our population are willing to pay for sex, and that, given a market, we, being good capitalists, will provide the commensurate product. You want to stop prostitution? Make it just as easy for everyone to get all the sex they want for free. I'm sure that little initiative won't get the same funding that abstinence only education is getting, but it might actually do some good.

Not that our current administration seems to want initiatives that are actually effective. Er, sorry, that's enough with the politics. Moving on...

There's been a bit of confusion in the past as to my stance on prostitution and paying for sex. In general, if everyone's fully informed and consenting, I'm in favor of it. I've yet to be tempted to trade my sexual favors for money, but I'm sure if someone came to me with enough money, I'd be willing to give it a swing. (So to speak.) What continues to bother me is when people try to turn the casual encounters section into the erotic services section. You want to pay for it? Great, find someone who wants money! But I'm looking for fun, not business, so you can leave your money in your pocket when you're propositioning me, please.

I might let you buy me a drink, though.

But back to that editorial. Maybe we should write Mr. Jamieson and let him know that CL, unlike any number of right-wing ideologues, knows how to draw reasonable boundaries, and that Craig, and the good folks at CL, aren't, in fact, responsible for policing their users' behavior. Something tells me, though, that he won't think much of my opinion, slut that I am.

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I'm travelling this weekend, so that means lazy posting. Like this:

Someone over at LiveJournal has written a great piece on "Nice Guys". Thanks to Cos for the link.

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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the person who runs Anonymous Sex, which is, as you might imagine, a blog about anonymous sex. He contacted me to ask if I had any stories of my own encounters that I might like to share, and while I didn't, at the time, I soon thereafter wrote The View, which is probably one of the least explicit anonymous sex stories out there, but sue me, I'm shy about sharing details!

At any rate, Anonymous Sex has some very entertaining stories, as well as some useful information about anonymous sex, from safety to reasons that people do it, to stories they want to share. Surf on over and check it out!

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I adore Dan Savage, and his advice column, Savage Love, is an inspiration for me, though I have a long way to go before I can even fantasize about being in his league. So, this evening, I'd like to point you all to an excellent (and long) interview with him, which you can find here, at the A.V. Club, including this:

You wonder why straight guys are all so endlessly perverse. Like I said earlier, all the poo-eaters are guys. And it's just because there's so much more pressure laid on men about male sexuality that just squeezes out in weird, perverse ways. It's kind of tragic. It's also tragic that straight guys have so little access to sex ... And it just put complete responsibility for sex on the men in those relationships. And men do sort of bear all responsibility—whatever's going wrong is completely their fault, women are always the victims. I just think there's no respect for male sexuality in this empathy culture that's shaped by and defined by a female perspective on relationships and emotions.

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If you enjoy my blog, you will probably also appreciate Dating Horrors, where they take an admirably snarky and humorous tone about the whole dating scene. Highly recommended!

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