Men for men on craigslist

I was an early enthusiast of the Craigslist M4M personals section when it arrived in New York Metropolis in the early aughts. I’d recently broken up with my college boyfriend — the only man I’d ever had sex with — and was eager to expand my horizons (anonymously, of course). I was still mostly closeted, clinging to the scraps of my fleeting heterosexuality and looking for someone similar — ideally a college lacrosse player home on summer break, which is why I marketed myself as a “straight preppy jock who NEVER does this.”

It definitely worked. Within minutes, my inbox would be peppered with a half dozen Dave Matthews fans — likewise claiming to be “totally straight” — lining up to deepthroat my Dancing Nancy.

Nor did it take long for the practice of posting, proofreading and occasionally meeting guys to devolve into a compulsion — thanks in part to a burgeoning coke practice. I manically enveloped myself in Craig’s lowercase royal blue Times New Roman font — and honed my imaginative writing chops in the process — by suggesting elaborate role-play scenarios. For instance: “Step brothers with wandering hands are forced to disseminate a be