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Online dating got more interesting with the sharper, more provocative Nerve profile, which if most of you haven't even actually dated online, cahnces are your friends have probably made you sign up and inspect their profiles as well as their prospects. Time looks at the two women behind the questionnaire, Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, as they promote their new book, Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe. Gothamist is amused how Time also has to almost backpedal and establish that these are nice girls, not sexually rapacious city girls:
Sharkey is so old-school that she met her boyfriend at work, and Taylor, who has had nearly 20 personal-ad dates, is single. "My friend Jack loves to introduce me as 'my friend Emma who just wrote a sex manual and can't get laid,'" says Taylor. "I find myself making disclaimers that those who can't do, write sex manuals."
Gothamist can't help but thinks that perhaps "those who can't, blog."... Anyway, Taylor and Sharkey have also been touring around the States, The Big Sex Drive, promoting their book, even selling it at gas stations. The Boston Phoenix interviews them on road.
Taylor and Sharkey's advice column "Ask Em & Lo" on Nerve. This week: "What's the harm of hickeys?" A Mediabistro Q & A with them.
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If you ever want to meet losers, commitmentphobes, in-between relationshipers, and total pervs (in the bad sense), Nerve is your place. I did it for two horrible years and could probably write a book of my own on all of the bad dates.
total pervs? we should do a post on that.
so how does that make the guys on nerve any different from the guy who i meet in bars?
Guys in a bar will probably buy you a drink. Guys on nerve probably won't.
I think we should do a post about the high conversion rate of sex from meeting someone on Nerve. Out of all the sites, it seems the most catered to that.
I'm not surprized that Em&Lo complain about being sexless...for every thirty nerve dates I went on I would get action once. Actual statistic. Ouch.
Huh. Then I guess I know more slutty Nervers.
What about Lavalife's Intimite Encounters section? That seems pretty catered to the hook up.
Lavalife is kinda for investment bankers and jersey girls. I wouldn't do it.