gothic sex exchange

[B]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Pauline Law wrote:

> ah, but the means in which one goes about having more sex makes all the
> difference --  it strikes me as... uh, gauche?
>
> back in my days as a vivacious, sparkling youth, we used to walk up to
> people and say, _in person_, "nice boots, wanna fuck?"

That seems *more* gauche-- potentially putting someone in an
uncomfortable, akward position in the (likely) event that they don't.
Not to mention the uncomfortable rejection for the asking party.

The anonymity and depersonalization of the internet is a double-edged
sword.  Mostly it sucks, breeding usenet flame wars and passive-aggressive
LiveJournal rants that are personal attacks thinly veiled as "general
commentary" by not explicitly mentioning the offending party by name.
However, as far as minimum-hassle sexual gratification goes, I think we
have some potential applications here...

And of course people have (theoretically) been doing this sort of thing
using different mechanisms, like magazine ads, before the advent of GSE or
the internet.

Anybody who has actually used something like GSE, I'd love to hear your
stories... despite lip service to the idea, I'd probably never *use*
something like it, as I find someone's personality a key ingredient to
eroticism.


brian j. parker
gamer, geek, & black-clad cliche

"Brian...resigned a few months ago to spend more time with his video
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