"No First Date": An Experiment in Getting Weird on Dating Websites

It’s the single-serving sites with the simplest premises that work best.  At Wal-Mart, you don’t necessarily have to wear what some dictionary would call a “shirt.”  Hipsters always have to make a contest out of being terrible.  And most men will overlook virtually anything to bed an attractive woman.  That’s what drives No First Date, a series of conversations on a free dating website between a man posing as a pretty lady and his/her numerous gentleman callers.  In each, the writer sees how weird his female avatar can get before her suitors disengage.  It plays out like a cross between Boiling Point for desperate men and To Catch an Idiot.

Some of the victims are creeps, some are nice guys who are probably too naive to be using the internet, and some are simply fools, but this is pretty no harm, no foul all around I think.  Be sure to at least read the top few “Most Popular” ones.

No First Date.  Thanks to Jessika for the tip.