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by ssnri 844 days ago
I enjoyed that book. After I read it I made my bio on dating apps: “Active, creative, hairy; but enough about Portia spiders.”

My question is: how successful do you think that’s been for me as a straight man?

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Depends on your metric for success I guess.

- number of matches ? Probably not. - number of fellow fans ? Probably.

Is sexual cannibalism off the table?
It depends on how physically attractive you are obviously, that variable confounds everything people say about dating apps and what works or doesn't
I go to yoga studios and the instructors hit on me.

Still have a mostly shit time with apps. Not zero dates, but going out and doing things in the real world is a much better strategy.

Being attractive is probably enough for women, not men though.

"Being attractive is probably enough for women, not men though. "

That is valid only for a certain subset of humanity.

You said "book" (singular), and I just wanted to let you know it's actually a trilogy, so there are more if you want to read them!
I'm not sure talking about hairy spiders in your opening sentence will work wonders with women.
It won't work until it works really well with one specific woman.
I'm not sure women are as homogeneous as you're suggesting.
I guess I’ll have to fall back on my oversized genitals
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