Category Archives: Online Dating

I Would Die 4 U or How To Send a Message On A Dating Site

By vanessa | Published: December 7, 2011

You look intelligent but your writing is pretty dumb. Your second photo doesn’t look too bad. Are your lips real? You look utterly fuckable. Want to swap dirty pics? Are you down to fuck? No, these aren’t the ramblings of a madman, or a drunk guy at 3am, but some the messages I have received since reactivating my dating profile [...]

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Where Did It All Go Wrong?

By vanessa | Published: August 17, 2011

For some reason each time I write the opening sentence of this post I make it all coy, and witter on about how using dating sites is acceptable, and how no-one’s ashamed of it anymore, but I think a teeny tiny part of me is. This shame is patently ridiculous because I write about vaginas [...]

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An Open Letter To A One Night Stand: Part Two.

By vanessa | Published: April 21, 2011

Hiya! Me again! Now, I’ll understand if you’re upset after that last letter, I wrote it while I was a bit pissed off with you. It was a heat of the moment kind of thing I guess. If heat of the moment means more than two months later on an otherwise quiet evening in front [...]

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An Open Letter To A One Night Stand: Part One.

By vanessa | Published: April 16, 2011

Hi, First off: don’t worry, I’m not writing to you because I have crabs, and I’m not pregnant. No, this is nothing so exciting as any of that. This is more like a report card, less stressful actually, imagine a tv show review in the Radio Times. Basically I want to go over with you [...]

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5 People You’ll Hate Yourself For Dating

By vanessa | Published: November 25, 2010

5. The one who won’t get away Problem: They called and called, you ignored them over and over again. There were times you had the opportunity to kiss each other, but you decided it was a bad move. Their teeth stink and their hair is greasy but they’re just so sweet and they really really [...]

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Hey Gurl!

By vanessa | Published: October 25, 2009

Online dating intrigues me. Everything else in my life from where I go out, to what shoes I buy, seems to be tied to the internet so it just seems natural that I should go about finding someone to go out with in the same way. Plucking up the courage to contact a random pretty [...]

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