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Ever since early in high school, I have been a big fan of reading the personal ads in the newspaper. We used to have newspapers readily available in study hall, so I would read them and “lol” at some of the ads in there, even though I knew people who had met that way and didn’t think it was weird. Some of them were just worded comically. I especially liked the ones with the ladies who were “really curvy” or who obviously wanted a rich guy.

Later in high school I found out about Nuvo newspaper, which has way better personal ads. Instead of just hinting at the prospect of sex, the Nuvo ads seemed to be dripping with it. Innuendo gave way to out-and-out requests. It was sort of like going from a county fair to the state fair; the county fair was always something to look forward to, but only because you hadn’t been to the far superior version. [note: this is a poor analogy for me since I don’t like fairs of any kind, but you get the idea]. Nuvo wasn’t readily available at the high school so I didn’t get to see that one as much, but it’s a free paper and I’d pick it up whenever I was somewhere that had it.

Eventually I lost interest in that sort of thing and I stopped reading them, except for a few instances here and there. I don’t know if it was just that the content was getting stale (if you read them long enough, it seems like you eventually read the same thing over and over and over) or I matured (this theory to be refuted momentarily), but looking at sexy personals faded from cherished pastime to cherished memory.

Then I found out about Craigslist.

For those that don’t know, Craigslist is a free online classified ad service that is available in pretty much every major US city. It is a great way to sell your crap without having to pay a bunch of money to the local paper to get it listed. As you might have guessed, they also have free online personal ads.

The ads in Craigslist are under a few different categories, such as “strictly platonic,” “women seeking men,” and my favorite, “casual encounters.” The latter section is for people who just want to hook up and get their freak on, and it’s chock full of risqué hilarity. Let’s take a gander, shall we?

A fair amount of the ads on here are clearly spam for porn sites or the like, so I will try to weed those out. It is also worth noting that as far as Craigslist usage goes, Indianapolis is small potatoes. It is worth your time to look at bigger places like Chicago or NY for more good stuff. Onward.

This one is funny to me because of specific and tame it is. I doubt that it would not go past this if the dude wanted more, but what the hell do I know.

flirting and passionate kissing - w4m - 35
I am married, prefer if you are, too. Looking to flirt with attractive, educated, smart and witty guy. Meet for drinks, witty banter, educated conversation and then find myself thinking about nothing else than what it feels like to be kissed by you.

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