I’ve joined another online dating site. The concept is that guys only make profiles, and gals make the first move. That’s pretty good for me, since I tend to make a profile and then never look at the site again.
But anyway, since I hate writing about myself, who wants to make my profile page for me? I need a “headline” (2−100 characters), an “about me” (150−1000 characters), and an “ideal match” (150−1000). You could help me find my lobster! (I still don’t know what that means, by the way.) If you write something for me, I’ll post it and keep it until someone suggests something better. (And this site gives me metrics to prove it. In fact, I think a big part of why I’m even considering a pay site is that metrics feature.)
it’s a very down-to-earth dating site. the only problem is i doubt very many females are using the site since it’s new — no blog, no user stats, and very few twitter followers.
i heard about the lobster theory on friends. phoebe says something like lobsters fall in love for life and then walk around with linked claws.
your headline could be “yea, i’ll do that!” i read it’s good to be positive…
I second Michow. Supposedly lobsters only mate once in their life and they stay faithful to that one mate.
BUT THAT’S NOT TRUE:
For more than twenty years, Dr. Jelle Atema of the Marine Biological Laboratory has been studying lobster mating behavior. He claims lobsters make tender lovers.
A female lobster can mate only just after she sheds her shell. Lobster society has evolved a complex, touching courtship ritual that protects the female when she is most vulnerable. When she is ready to molt, the female lobster approaches a male’s den and wafts a sex “perfume” called a pheromone in his direction. Unlike a female moth, whose sex pheromone may attract dozens of random suitors, the female lobster does the choosing. She usually seeks out the largest male in the neighborhood and stands outside his den, releasing her scent in a stream of urine from openings just below her antennae. He responds by fanning the water with his swimmerets, permeating his apartment with her perfume. He emerges from his den with his claws raised aggressively. She responds with a brief boxing match or by turning away. Either attitude seems to work to curb the male’s aggression. The female raises her claws and places them on his head to let him know she is ready to mate. They enter the den, and some time after, from a few hours to several days later, the female molts. At this point the male could mate with her or eat her, but he invariably does the noble thing. He gently turns her limp body over onto her back with his walking legs and his mouth parts, being careful not to tear her soft flesh. They mate “with a poignant gentleness that is almost human, ” observes Dr. Atema. The male, who remains hard-shelled, inserts his first pair of swimmerets, which are rigid and grooved, and passes his sperm into a receptacle in the female’s body. She stays in the safety of his den for about a week until her new shell hardens. By then the attraction has passed, and the couple part with hardly a backward glance.
Tim — you’re right, it doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of traction. I’ve only had two people express interest, but both of those people were far and profile-less, so I wasn’t very interested in actually paying to reply to them.
Michow and Peggy — Thanks, I did not know that.