• How do you compete with a man named Enrique?

    I could play Radiohead on the guitar. He spoke fluent Spanish. Guess who got the girl.
    June 25, 2003

  • To tell or not to tell

    If you realize that you've already hooked up with your blind date's friend -- in your blind date's apartment, no less -- do you 'fess up?
    June 18, 2003

  • No room for love

    That's what we told each other. Two nights later, with the A.C. on full-blast, we were voraciously coupling in every way imaginable.
    June 11, 2003

  • twotimingpunk.com

    We jumped straight into serious rutting, the kind that makes you forget your own name. And sometimes, your judgment.
    June 5, 2003

  • Homecoming from hell -- with handcuffs

    It was 1979. I was a long-haired Robert Plant wannabe; she was a wrong-side-of-the-tracks brunette with hippie sensibilities. All I wanted to do was score.
    May 28, 2003

  • A mouthful of hair

    She was blond, cute, smart and interested. So what went wrong?
    May 21, 2003

  • Teenage wasteland

    We talked for a minimum of 10 hours a day, every day, for years. He was still a virgin when we finally met.
    May 14, 2003

  • Staying pure

    She was beautiful, sexy and intelligent. Perfect, really, except for that whole cult thing.
    May 7, 2003

  • A special Match Made in (the 9th circle of) Hell

    On orders from my shrink, I posted a personal ad. Now I really need therapy.
    By Stephen F. Milioti April 30, 2003

  • Endless love

    The men are deeper, and the sex can be sweet as well as hot. But dating at 41 is no less exquisitely confusing than it is at 21.
    By Virginia Vitzthum April 29, 2003

  • I should have told him I was a dyke

    I was a gay woman, he was a gay man. We tried. We really, really tried.
    April 23, 2003

  • Rise to the occasion

    I spent 24 hours with him stark naked, doing my best. My best wasn't good enough.
    April 16, 2003

  • Love came to the leather bar

    It was a one-night stand -- until my shrink told me to follow the guy cross-country.
    April 9, 2003

  • Blonde seeks Jew

    I just love men with prominent noses and liberal attitudes.
    April 2, 2003

  • Elvis from heaven, Elvis from hell

    He talked about his hair, his one girlfriend who went on to marry a creep, his hair, his painting and plastering career, his hair, journeying to Graceland and, lest we forget, his hair.
    March 19, 2003

  • So much for the porno fantasy

    She'd said she was a cheerleader, but she looked more like a football.
    March 13, 2003

  • Spill your guts

    Match made in heaven, or match made in hell? Salon wants to know.
    March 13, 2003

  • Smooching Sybil

    I had to break up with him five times -- once for each of his personalities.
    March 5, 2003

  • Jcofnanazareth.com

    Online he dazzled me with his mastery of biblical history. But over dinner, he pressed me to sleep with him no fewer than a dozen times, once for each apostle.
    February 26, 2003

  • She had me from the time I typed LOL

    We made a routine of waking up, making love like jungle monkeys, pausing for me to call in sick to work, and then back to the monkey sex.
    February 19, 2003

  • The tyranny of Valentine's Day

    Forget compulsory, greeting-card romance. This year write your own love story.
    By Charles Taylor February 14, 2003

  • Love and war

    We fell in love, he went into the military, now I have someone new. Should I tell him? Plus: A call for readers to share their war stories.
    By Cary Tennis February 14, 2003

  • "No, I don't want to cuddle"

    I told him I don't eat fish and I don't drink. He took me to a seafood restaurant and brought along three bottles of wine.
    February 10, 2003

  • "You told her the TRUTH? You idiot!"

    He thought honest feedback would help him score. It didn't.
    February 3, 2003

  • "Love manuals are evil"

    Salon columnist Carina Chocano talks about her new book, "Do You Love Me, or Am I Just Paranoid?"
    By Heather Havrilesky January 28, 2003
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