Bitchen Blogs

I was looking at my high school yearbook the other day. In the mid-70s the indispensable year book signing was:

Have a bitchen summer!

Mostly guys wrote that, cool shirtless guys with boxer waistbands peeking above their baby blue Levi cords. Cute guys with hair bleached white from lots of Sun In and more surfing. California guys. Sigh.

I hope you’re having a bitchen summer. Here are some cool Other People’s Blogs I think you’ll enjoy:

Naked With Socks On

This is one of the few blogs about relationships and sex that is written by a dude. A mature, intelligent man, actually. I enjoy reading his take on things. Here’s a post about how it feels when you really, really want someone you know you cannot or should not be with. Confession: I kinda hoped he’d give in at the end.

Wet Wednesdays: I Want You But I Can’t Have You | Naked With Socks On.

Falling For the Same (Wrong) Type Again and Again

Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Wince. Yeah, I do that. Here’s some advice about how to stop the insanity:

• First, the next time you find yourself telling the same unsatisfying story of your lovesick love life, ask yourself the simple question a dear friend once asked me: “how’s that working for ya?” The answer might just be: it’s not. Use it as your social barometer to measure the success of your dating life. If he’s a cold fish, throw him back.
• Second, make it your goal to try something new and unexpected if you truly want new and unexpected results. You might just be pleasantly surprised.
• Third, listen closely to your intuition. A man tells you who he is up front, right from the beginning. It’s whether or not you chose to listen that makes all the difference. If your inner alarm starts going off, make him history and move on.

Read the entire article here: Eliminate Dating Deja Vu

Advertising for Love:

A collection of funny, strange, poignant and just plain bizarre personal ads from the nineteenth century.

Thanks to VJ, a regular commenter on HUS, for providing this very entertaining link. Advertising for Love is a blog written by Pam Epstein, a PhD student in history at Rutgers University. She is close to completing her dissertation on the transformation of love and marriage in the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century in America.

Honestly, I was surprised at these personals – some are innocent, but there was plenty of Craigslist-style sex advertising going on back then! Bet you never thought of your great-grandmother getting it on with a sailor. Here’s a sampling of some funny bits:

His object is “mutual improvement!” I love that. I hope his good habits include satisfying her first.

While away our few remaining days? Too sad! And too bad they didn’t have Viagra back then, sounds like he lacks vigor.

Translation: booty call! I envision this happening down at the docks at low tide, the air reeking of rotten fish.

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