the gigolo

why i'm upset about this, i don't know. it may be some real insight into my twisted psyche.

a couple of weeks ago, i got a message on the dating website i'm on from this smokin' hot guy. smokin' freakin' hot. hawt. and he told me he thought i was hot and came right out and told me he'd like to pleasure me. no apologies. he gave me his msn address (iscrew@domain.com - and he was serious) and said we should chat. he said he could come to my place or he would "host"at a nice hotel downtown (hence, the Gigolo moniker i've given him). his profile was bare-bones - one or two interests listed and a couple of sentences to list what he was looking for. i'll admit it. i bit. sort of.

i sent him an email that said that i was oh, so tempted because he was so fantastically hot, but that i was sure he had made the offer to other people already, so have fun.

he immediately sent me another email with his "real" msn. so i added him. we chatted once and to be honest, he came across as intelligent and nice. Moderately horny, but he didn't push the issue either. i was intrigued.

yesterday, Mon and i were talking about our matches on the site and we were talking about how we hate it when guys post gratuitous ab shots. then she starts telling me about this guy who emailed her and they had a brief exchange and then he blocked her for saying something he thought was stupid. she described him and i immediately thought it was the Gigolo.

today, we had a minute and she showed me his email. it was him. it was the Gigolo. but under a different profile. WTF! what a shyster! i read what his first email to her was and it was something to the effect of, "I was so intrigued by your smile, I had to write you." nothing, not one hint of anything sexual. it was just a normal email. i was stymied. he had even given her his "real" email address.

what was his motivation? i didn't understand but i wasn't too bothered. until now.

i just had a minute to read his "other" profile - it listed about 30 different interests and it had a funny "point" list of things he gaves points for and things he took points away for. i got 48 points, by the way. based on this profile, he seems like a great guy. i would have definitely messaged him with the profile alone (okay, the fact that he's uber-hot does help a bit).

so, why didn't he message me under his PG profile? why do i get dirty-Gigolo instead of the Boy Nextdoor?

the other side to this story? i met him online six (count 'em) years ago when he messaged me for the same thing. the odd part? i kept the photos he sent me because i was so intrigued by him then. what are the odds that we would meet again on a different site, six years later? what are the odds that he would proposition me again?

and here i go again, looking for oddities in the situation that will make me stand out from everyone else. what is wrong with me? the guy is so obviously a player, it shouldn't bother me that he didn't offer me his "real" self. grrr. i don't understand. i suppose i can take solace in the fact that, even after six years, he still thinks i'm hot.

but i'd rather be smart and funny.