"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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I am in my early 30s yet apparently look 45. Chances with younger women?

BillyPilgrim

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why is pregnancy your major concern and not like HIV?
Ummm, so maybe he doesn't end up being "stuck with a young kid"?

 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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GoodMan32

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why is pregnancy your major concern and not like HIV?
Just over a million Americans have HIV. That's a pretty small percentage (0.36%).

It's unlikely any randomly selected escort has HIV. Then even if a condom were to break with an HIV-positive escort, there's still no guarantee I'd get HIV. I looked it up. The odds of getting HIV from a one-time unprotected exposure are, at most, 2%.

So we're talking 2% of 0.36%
 

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Just over a million Americans have HIV. That's a pretty small percentage (0.36%).

It's unlikely any randomly selected escort has HIV. Then even if a condom were to break with an HIV-positive escort, there's still no guarantee I'd get HIV. I looked it up. The odds of getting HIV from a one-time unprotected exposure are, at most, 2%.

So we're talking 2% of 0.36%
Which would be .007, or double-oh-seven if you will.
 

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I think the prevelance of HIV is higher in Sex workers.
Good point, I hadn't thought of that.

I found a study from the NIH where they estimate the HIV prevalence in female sex workers. The average estimate is 17% (various studies have produced various estimates, ranging from 0.3% to 32%).

Even if we use the high estimate of 32%, with a 2% HIV risk from a single uncovered exposure, the odds of getting HIV if a condom breaks with an HIV-positive escort are 0.64% (Still a lot lower than the odds of getting a younger escort pregnant from a broken condom)
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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