The Social Sexwork

I know you thought I was going to come back from Miami with stories of how I had eye sex with an Italian in a club and how I became smitten over beautiful black men from London who were visiting the United States for one week. And, while all of the above are true (more on Miami in another post sometime soon), I also spent a tiny portion of my spring break watching, for the second time, what I will now deem one of my favorite movies...The Social Network.

With thoughts of Jesse Eisenberg's witty and incisive vernacular still floating through my mind, I stumbled across this article on a friend's Facebook status:

"UChicago Hookup Expands: Casual Sex Site Now Welcoming Other Schools"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/college-hookups-website-e_n_841474.html

For those of you who are like me and are too lazy to read links unless you're super interested, here's the gist: University of Chicago has a website where people can set up casual hookups with others. They describe it as being similar to the "casual encounters" (pronounced "you're a 50 year old creeper looking to prey on young girls") portion of Craigslist.

Let me just add an aside here for my fellow Terps. We don't have a casual hookup website because we have a casual hookup Cornerstone instead. Am I taking a jab at Chicago, Columbia, and whoever else is joining this website? Yeah, you can bet your five-pounds-heavier-from-all-of-the-alcohol-on-spring-break ass that I am. Because for those of us who are classy enough to at least drunk text someone before trying to get in their pants, this is just putting all of our hard work to shame.

If you read Free Love, you already know my take on the demise of human communication and how pathetic it is. No need to comment further. I'm just wondering if this site will be like Facebook...starts off with all of the prestigious schools (the site expands to Brown on April 4) and then trickles down to us plebians at public institutions. My God, I hope this isn't the case. We have to show those ivy-league recluses that we at least know how to do something right.

There's no life message today. Sorry if you were looking for me to enlighten you. I, too, just came off of a spring break complete with sun, alcohol, and dropping to the floor every night when Juvenile came on. My brain isn't quite back and I am not sorry for that. But, I guess if there is going to be a point it's that this website is pathetic, anyone who uses it is pathetic, and I hope it never makes its way to my home for 6 more weeks, UMD.

But, you DO have to have a .edu email address to use the site. Classy, Chicago. Classy.

Love freely,

tY