When it comes to love and sex, guys have so many problems with the truth they should have business cards that read, “Professional Liar.”
Take a look at any city magazine’s “Most Eligible Bachelor & Bachelorette” feature and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s a typical answer a guy gave in a section called, “What I look for in a woman:”
“Someone with a good sense of humor who likes to have fun, is confident in who they are, likes to travel, and is honest and goal-oriented.”
Oh, Please. Ireland’s pastures long for that kind of manure. We men are visually-oriented sexcentrics, yet we will never, if asked what we look for in a mate, say what we really want: Read the rest of this entry »
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It breaks my heart whenever I hear women or gay men say that there aren’t any good men over 40 left to date, because it’s just not true. Sure, it feels true when you’re sitting across the table from your blind date—a guy who wears black socks with sandals and whines about how his seventh divorce really was all his wife’s fault, because frankly, in his opinion, all women are inherently evil, gold diggers or both.
But there are a lot of decent, kind, available men over 40 who are single and looking for someone to love.
We all know that once you hit your fortieth (err, thirtieth) birthday, you’re not going to have much luck spending every weekend hanging out in a bar, gripping a bottle of light beer, and listening to the same old jokes, meeting the same people in different clothes. When we belly up to the bar, we’re much more likely to meet that smarmy loser whose exposed silver chest hairs seem perilously likely to fall in our drinks than be the man of our dreams.
So where do you go to meet these wonderful, enlightened, please-let-them-be- attractive, minimally damaged men over 40?
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