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Design, Dating and Disillusionment: If Only She Had Told Me She Could Work Me Like a Ball-Peen Hammer!
By Heather Murphy
(page 3 of 3)Lizzie had just one regret about the date—that she didn’t tell Anthony about her job as a dominatrix. “I probably should have told him,” she said. “He seemed really open-minded.”‘
When we took the liberty of dropping the dime on Anthony, he reacted like any red-blooded male overdue for a spankin’ would: “I would have never have expected that—that would really, really be a turn-on!” he said, adding that now that he knows about the “the dark side” of Lizzie he thinks he could overlook the kids and go out with her again.
They Rate the Date
Anthony’s rating was 10 out of 10. “The food and conversation were great,” he said. Plus, the S&M revelation gave him new perspective on Lizzie’s “luggage.”
Lizzie gave an 8 out of 10 rating. She would have given the date a 10, she said, had it not been for the RealTALK LA photographer, who hovered over them, frequently declaring, “Isn’t this awkward?” When she spoke with Anthony after the date, she told him her little secret. “He loved it; I was very surprised!” she said, adding “We’re planning on meeting again.”
They Rate the Place
Anthony raved, “Great date spot, great all around service. I loved the food—finished all of it. Four stars!”
Lizzie, too, was enthusiastic. “I don’t usually like pasta or Italian food, but it was so good I need to go back there. I even told my mom about the place.”
Are you interested in being set up on an all-expense-paid date? And no, you don’t get to choose your date; RealTALK LA reserves the right to pair you with the exact kind of person your mama warned you about. Still game? Then, e-mail realcupid@gmail.com.
For men who lack pickup skills
Hire a wing girl: Somehow, you still haven’t learned how to talk to women? Never fear—for upward of $200 you can hire a professional Wing Girl to accompany you to the bar or Lakers game or drum circle and coach you on how to relate to your objects of desire.
“We are the gutsy ones who will go up to women,” said Marni Kinrys, president and co-founder of the Wing Girl Method, which has helped more than 300 men fine-tune their approach to the fairer sex.
Not everyone can expect to be as dramatically altered as her client, a 31-year-old virgin who went from dateless to married in a year, but most come away significantly more confident, she said. Just be prepared to explain how you know your “nice friend Marni” if your Wing Girl night out leads to a date. For more information, go to www.thewinggirlmethod.com.
Get your waiter to do the leg work: Which is sleazier—using a line like, “If I told you that you had a good body, would you hold it against me?” or paying your server to find a “good body” and drag her over to you? It’s up for debate, but there is no doubt which one is less intimidating if you are connected in the Korean community and willing to dish out the bucks for a table at the Velvet Room, Prive or Karnac. The servers double as “bookers” and forage about the club looking for ladies who fit what the gents at their table’s “order.” Once found, they lure them to the eager men, with the promise of free booze. Every now and then, a spark ignites. For ladies who don’t want to get coerced into sitting with a bunch of drunk, horny strangers, here’s a solution as handy as it is hackneyed: wear a fake wedding ring.
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