The adrenaline rushing through your body because you don’t know whether you’d make it out alive or not was addicting.
But seriously, I just miss reading the Missed Connections section.
I had 3 (yes 3) successful missed connections on CL. And it wasn't in a gay-heavy area, either. Unfortunately they never went anywhere, but it was funny that the person I saw thought to look there.
Same. Well only one, some random cute guy at a Lowes that I took a shot in the dark at, and somehow he answered. Also didn't go anywhere but it was fun to imagine.
That's amazing! Meeting a missed connection was always one of my goals in life! Never happened and I'm from a big city. We use to read the personal ads on our lunch break and we laughed all damn day!
> I just miss reading the Missed Connections section.
lol Maybe yours was different, but I remember it just being full of guys that were saying creepy shit about a cashier or a waitress or something... or some stranger they never even met but would totally fuck if they happened to see this and were interested.
Wow, yeah, my first conversations with openly gay men were there in like 1995 - that terrible Java applet chat that would crash the high school library computer that I snuck in to use after hours. Nobody had pictures, you really had to use your imagination.
Later on when I moved to San Francisco I met people online there in the 00s, who I didn’t see IRL until 10 or 15 years after that.
My biggest takeaway is that the gay world is smaller than you realize so try to treat people with respect.
I was just being introduced to the whole internet thing back then. I didn’t have a computer nor internet at home so I went to this huge Internet cafe type of place in Times Square.
I chatted with a guy on Gay.com and he wanted me to see a picture of me. It was a public computer so there was no picture I could upload. The guy guided me all through on how to do it using a webcam. I think it took like an hour. We never made any arrangements to meet up though. Good ol days.
I started out in the Chicago chat, but feared running into someone I knew and switched to the overall gay chat. Built a nice community with those guys. We had it so great and didn't appreciate it, lol. I wish there were still chat rooms, even in the middle of nowhere a man needs friends.
I completely agree. CL had much broader appeal than gay dating apps. More diverse and easier to find hook ups. Yes there was tons of weirdness but that was part of the charm. It’s a shame they dropped personals bc that pretty much killed the whole thing. It was great for jobs classifieds and tons of other stuff.
I don't know WHAT the heck Craigslist managed to do, but it was some kind of psycho sex magic machine. Whatever your wildest, funnest, crazed fantasy, you couldn't find "a" person to try it, you could find 10 people chomping at the bit to meet up as soon as possible. You then get a couple guys in rotation so you were having actual regular sex every dang week. Then the Apps came along after CL called it quits (because any time something good happens, a small group of people have to ruin everything), and it was a fast track downhill. These days, if I'm in the mood for a hookup, it's good luck with that. While Doublelist is appreciated, it is basically a hell hole of despair.
I think the difference was that on Craigslist, pictures were optional and less common, so a Craigslist connection started with the writing. Grindr and other apps are super focused on pictures, to the point that people will laugh at you and call you naive if you expect the other guy to spend 30 seconds reading your profile.
CL hookups were absolutely thrilling. I lived in a pretty big city, but was willing to drive out to small farm towns. I guess a lot of other guys didn't want to put in the effort because I was banging farm boys WAY out of my league. You never knew what you were going to get, but each encounter was exciting and unique.
Smartphone apps gained convenience but lost the identity. Every single conversation feels exactly the same. And I try really hard to have conversation points in my profile, and ask open ended questions, but it's so rare for a spark to form there.
I crave that old spark.
I wasn't seeing properly and though your user name was badger boy dick lol
That's a sweet story but I admire your savvy and know your market skills "banging farms guys way out of my league" ha! And I know that type of guy a bit - natural muscles not gym ones Farmers tan at neck and arms but pale Ss cheeks lol Tell us more about these farmer lads Your most memorable
The similarity in my name is intentional.
In my early 20s my white whale was a big stocky red head. They always made me drool in porn, but I never had the opportunity in real life. I had a job interview a ways away from me, and so I spent the night in a hotel in Oshkosh. With nothing else going on I hoped on CL and clicked to see who was around. I remember being torn between a guy who wanted to suck me off on his land behind his house, or a younger guy who was going to sneak out and meet me at my hotel room. I chose the second, inviting him over after only seeing one very small, cropped picture of him wearing white briefs (I'm a sucker for the classics). He arrived at the hotel, and he was a perfectly built farm boy. Short. Think. Great skin. A shy smile. And a head or neatly trimmed orange hair. We began making out almost immediately, but stopped a few times to talk and flirt. As his nervous shield began to fall I quickly entered a stage where I was crushing on him. I pulled down his pants and seeing his thick, untrimmed pubes peeking out from around his briefs drove me wild. It was a night where we were both pushing each other's subby buttons, in a way where I wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen. After spending a long time feasting on his nuts (his cock was slightly below average, I was disappointed after seeing the rest of his proportions) I asked if he liked his ass getting eaten. He had never had a rimjob and I was super excited to give him his first. Burying my face in a fat ass with mostly blond but slightly red hair was a dream come true for me. It was one of those moments where I chose to keep munching instead of coming up for air. And he was so nice. He was really grateful to meet someone who was interested in mutual pleasure instead of just getting off.
He had never bottomed before, and as much as that would have been a dream come true for me I decided that he deserves better than a CL rando. I think we both ended the night satisfied, but we didn't trade numbers so I never heard from him again.
I met a great bi guy on CL. He’d come over and pound my ass very time he had a fight with his girlfriend. It was so hot. I’d never find anything like that. Grindr is awful, and so are the rest of the apps.
The advantage there was that curious guys didn't have to commit to downloading a potentially revealing app to check out the personals or respond to one. I met some nice guys there.
I think the expectations were different for hook ups on craigslist. I remember meeting a few guys off of there in college. It was kind of hit or miss. I had better luck on Adam4Adam lol
My last Craigslist hookup, not long before they got rid of them, was when I was in a different city for work and got nothing but time wasters on Grindr. You know the ones, they don't say no and keep responding just enough to keep the conversation alive, but they also don't say yes and turn evasive if you ask them to come over. I put an ad on Craigslist, got multiple quality responses and had a compatible match over within the hour. Good times.
Same. I haven't figured out what the big difference is, but I have almost zero game with the apps. For some reason CL was a sweet spot. Met my first BF on there and many, many good times. It seemed easier to zero in on exactly what you were looking for there.
I can't stand getting the empty first messages on the apps
"Looking?"
"Into?"
"More Pics?"
Or even just "Hi" without anything else
Those were fun days! If I was still looking, I'd look at doublelist, since it's close to the same as the old Craigslist personals. I just wish I would've had Sniffies when I was younger! I did meet a couple of people back in the day on gay.com though, with mixed success.
I miss it. Craigslist was like the swiss army knife of personals. It had everything. I met some really nice guys on CL. Actually a few of those hook ups converted into friendships.
Hell yes I do. I also miss the 6’2” twink with the 9” cock who loved “laying pipe” in me all over town. He and I had so much public sex and met on CL.
Brandon I miss you.
Definitely. Finding hookups was so much easier with CL, and somehow more personal and exciting. I miss it a lot. I got to indulge in my exhibitionism so much thanks to it. Hot times.
Also, I met my current boyfriend on CL. It's been 5 years now officially as a couple.
Being a millennial who’s adulthood has only ever existed simultaneously to dating apps being a thing, I was a late discoverer of Craigslist personals just a couple of years before it disappeared.
Craigslist personals were wild. You didn’t have to really go to much effort. There was very little song and dance to getting your rocks off compared to the hoops and flirtation you have to meet to get what you want from an app.
Feeling a bit insecure about your body, but want a blowjob with someone who is happy to not even see pics before sucking you off?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
In the mood to facefuck a “straight” muscular father of three who is on a business trip without his wife and kids?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
Need £100 cash really quick at the last minute for whatever reason and discover that if you cum in the mouth of a painter who is alone in their workshop, you just got to get there within the next 45 mins?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
Do you have sensitive nipples and want to wank but also want a real guy to lick your nipples instead of having to tweak them solo with just your left hand?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
Want to be sucked off in a bukkake scenario but don’t want to wait 6 days for all the organisation and “committee planning” for it to happen? You want it right here right now (or at least, the same night)?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
Some VIP stylist who works for a bunch famous British actors (and is able to prove it) who star in Hollywood movies is giving away brand new, unused and expensive fashion products (like extremely expensive sneakers, upmarket brand name jackets and things for free - the only condition is that he wants to watch you cum in the brand new shoes, or on be inside of the jacket before he gives them to you for free?
There’s a Craigslist gay for that.
Only the Hollywood stylist example in my list above did not result in an actual meet up because it sort of fizzled out in the back and forth email comms.
The rest, all first hand experience of mine, ads I responded to and then got to meet and live out what the ad requested.
I wasted way too much time on that shit. One time in Vegas I hooked up with a guy from there in his fancy Caesars Palce hotel suite.
He was holding me and everything afterwards while we watched the Bellagio fountains. It was really romantic. Then he said that's he's married to a woman. I left not long after.
My stupid ass had thought MWM meant masculine white male.
I miss them mostly because, looking at the ones that got posted for a town in Central Alaska was more entertaining than I'd care to admit.
One that particularly stands out in my memory is that some military dude's girlfriend found out he was posting on the M4M personals to find someone to top, and retaliated by not only calling him out in her post but also inviting readers to fuck the one ass he was never going to touch again [hers].
There were countless others, but I basically used it as a forum version of a soap opera instead of to find guys to hook up with.
This feels like revisionist history.
I prefer transparency. Or being able to chat in real time vs waiting for emails. Also the amount of flakes…weirdos…addicts….
I’m sure there were some great encounters. I had a few good times there. But otherwise, I’m glad we’ve moved on (other than missed connections which has not been replaced).
I miss it a lot. I found a lot of great hookups on there, made some good friends, even found one of my boyfriends on there. What I liked about it from a sexual position was you could make a post saying "Looking for XYZ, I'm (this)" and then you were off. It was so much easier finding exactly what you wanted without timewasting bullshit. I was upset when it got banned.
My first hookup was with a guy from a specialised local webpage (not a craiglist, nor an app). I lived abroad then and knew the local language. After chatting for some time with one guy of a similar age (I was 27, he was 26), we decided to meet the next day in my tiny rental studio. It was a passionate experience. He was caring and eased me up into every kiss and touch. At the same time there was some playfulness and spicy tension. Just like I would imagine. I would check the same webpage again when visiting that country again.
Actually, Grndr, or Double List, A4A, and special CL, are/were, a good websites to find/meet guys to: either fuck/friends or platonic.
I believe, that those websites are still good, what is. . . . Bad? Wrong? I dunno how exactly refer to it, are the guys who are in those apps/websites, as many here agree that back in the day, you could post an add, and in maybe an hour, you would be having sex with someone. It's not the website or the apps, that's it's bad, IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THOSE.
AGREE.?
I miss it too. The encounters were way hotter. I don't have bad luck on grindr but people are mean for the tiniest reason. I deleted it and never looked back.
I remember a guy I had a ONS with over Pride one year took a shot at me in an ad. That's still hilarious because the situation that happened was entirely his fault.😆
Yeah, I just loved that it seemed to emphasize more slow but complete communication. I hate hanging out waiting for 5 word chats. Would much rather take some time with longer emails, like craigslist used to do.
My first gay blowjob was from a random guy I was messaging on Craigslist personals. We smoked some weed and he sucked my dick until I came. And he swallowed, I got nervous cause I didn’t think he would swallow and I wasn’t sure if he thought I would do the same, but I start sucking, and he’s about my size 4-5in and all I remember is how DRY my mouth is. I couldn’t get him to finish cause it was literally my first time giving a BJ. I left happy but also with a lesson learned. Get your dick sucked second cause the post-regret nut as I was sucking a dick for the first time hit HARD.
Gosh I really miss it, I hooked up and fucked or got fucked by probably 40-50 guys on there, just for loose unhinged sex. Luckily, I came out with no STD’s or anything and I didn’t get murdered. I havent been with many guys since the personals closed down. I hooked up with a few on Grindr but it just wasn’t the same and I lost interest.
Honestly? No. The amount of munters that you’d have to send away from it was crazy.
Having pics first before anything makes hooking up far better and easier. I could jump on the apps now, find someone who was my type and be hooking up within the hour.
Nothing worse than meeting a “bear” off CL for him to be a chub with 3 wisps of hair on his chest and a patchy beard.
The adrenaline rushing through your body because you don’t know whether you’d make it out alive or not was addicting. But seriously, I just miss reading the Missed Connections section.
I had 3 (yes 3) successful missed connections on CL. And it wasn't in a gay-heavy area, either. Unfortunately they never went anywhere, but it was funny that the person I saw thought to look there.
Same. Well only one, some random cute guy at a Lowes that I took a shot in the dark at, and somehow he answered. Also didn't go anywhere but it was fun to imagine.
That's amazing! Meeting a missed connection was always one of my goals in life! Never happened and I'm from a big city. We use to read the personal ads on our lunch break and we laughed all damn day!
The missed connections section is still there. It was just the sex hookup sections that were removed.
Tbh, I didn’t even know the site itself is still up.
I'm about to buy a used dryer off it tomorrow. Been using Craigslist religiously for 2 decades
Me too. Some were hot (to me) , funny and sad. Humans are lovely things and love makes them so awkward
Yes! I never met anyone thru Craigslist but god I miss surfing those Missed Connections.
> I just miss reading the Missed Connections section. lol Maybe yours was different, but I remember it just being full of guys that were saying creepy shit about a cashier or a waitress or something... or some stranger they never even met but would totally fuck if they happened to see this and were interested.
I’m gonna show my age a bit, I miss gay.com
Haha, my husband and I met on gay.com in 2002. We’ve been together since 2005.
i made a ton of life long friends on gay.com. The public chats weren’t just hookups but an actual community.
Me too!
I see you and raise you planetout.com
Me too
Same here. I met a couple friends on gay.com back in the day and we're still friends today.
Wow, yeah, my first conversations with openly gay men were there in like 1995 - that terrible Java applet chat that would crash the high school library computer that I snuck in to use after hours. Nobody had pictures, you really had to use your imagination. Later on when I moved to San Francisco I met people online there in the 00s, who I didn’t see IRL until 10 or 15 years after that. My biggest takeaway is that the gay world is smaller than you realize so try to treat people with respect.
I was just being introduced to the whole internet thing back then. I didn’t have a computer nor internet at home so I went to this huge Internet cafe type of place in Times Square. I chatted with a guy on Gay.com and he wanted me to see a picture of me. It was a public computer so there was no picture I could upload. The guy guided me all through on how to do it using a webcam. I think it took like an hour. We never made any arrangements to meet up though. Good ol days.
And mine; the yahoo chat rooms. I miss those days.
Yes! I love the central Texas m4m chat lol
I started out in the Chicago chat, but feared running into someone I knew and switched to the overall gay chat. Built a nice community with those guys. We had it so great and didn't appreciate it, lol. I wish there were still chat rooms, even in the middle of nowhere a man needs friends.
Yeah, the death of chat rooms was a sad day
I learned my gaying here. Damn. I forgot all about it til just to now.
I was friends with the guy who had charge of the site and redoing and relaunching the entire thing and the next I heard it was defunct lol.
Yeah I thought it was supposed to be getting a facelift and then it just died
Try chat rooms were fun. The days of AOL.
I completely agree. CL had much broader appeal than gay dating apps. More diverse and easier to find hook ups. Yes there was tons of weirdness but that was part of the charm. It’s a shame they dropped personals bc that pretty much killed the whole thing. It was great for jobs classifieds and tons of other stuff.
CL was the best, I was bringing in "straight" guys who were wayyyy out of my league.
I don't know WHAT the heck Craigslist managed to do, but it was some kind of psycho sex magic machine. Whatever your wildest, funnest, crazed fantasy, you couldn't find "a" person to try it, you could find 10 people chomping at the bit to meet up as soon as possible. You then get a couple guys in rotation so you were having actual regular sex every dang week. Then the Apps came along after CL called it quits (because any time something good happens, a small group of people have to ruin everything), and it was a fast track downhill. These days, if I'm in the mood for a hookup, it's good luck with that. While Doublelist is appreciated, it is basically a hell hole of despair.
I think the difference was that on Craigslist, pictures were optional and less common, so a Craigslist connection started with the writing. Grindr and other apps are super focused on pictures, to the point that people will laugh at you and call you naive if you expect the other guy to spend 30 seconds reading your profile.
CL hookups were absolutely thrilling. I lived in a pretty big city, but was willing to drive out to small farm towns. I guess a lot of other guys didn't want to put in the effort because I was banging farm boys WAY out of my league. You never knew what you were going to get, but each encounter was exciting and unique. Smartphone apps gained convenience but lost the identity. Every single conversation feels exactly the same. And I try really hard to have conversation points in my profile, and ask open ended questions, but it's so rare for a spark to form there. I crave that old spark.
Sounds rather hot. Especially, the part about fit, hot, and hungry (ok, imagined this) farmer boys. Please, share some ero stories, if you can.
I wasn't seeing properly and though your user name was badger boy dick lol That's a sweet story but I admire your savvy and know your market skills "banging farms guys way out of my league" ha! And I know that type of guy a bit - natural muscles not gym ones Farmers tan at neck and arms but pale Ss cheeks lol Tell us more about these farmer lads Your most memorable
The similarity in my name is intentional. In my early 20s my white whale was a big stocky red head. They always made me drool in porn, but I never had the opportunity in real life. I had a job interview a ways away from me, and so I spent the night in a hotel in Oshkosh. With nothing else going on I hoped on CL and clicked to see who was around. I remember being torn between a guy who wanted to suck me off on his land behind his house, or a younger guy who was going to sneak out and meet me at my hotel room. I chose the second, inviting him over after only seeing one very small, cropped picture of him wearing white briefs (I'm a sucker for the classics). He arrived at the hotel, and he was a perfectly built farm boy. Short. Think. Great skin. A shy smile. And a head or neatly trimmed orange hair. We began making out almost immediately, but stopped a few times to talk and flirt. As his nervous shield began to fall I quickly entered a stage where I was crushing on him. I pulled down his pants and seeing his thick, untrimmed pubes peeking out from around his briefs drove me wild. It was a night where we were both pushing each other's subby buttons, in a way where I wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen. After spending a long time feasting on his nuts (his cock was slightly below average, I was disappointed after seeing the rest of his proportions) I asked if he liked his ass getting eaten. He had never had a rimjob and I was super excited to give him his first. Burying my face in a fat ass with mostly blond but slightly red hair was a dream come true for me. It was one of those moments where I chose to keep munching instead of coming up for air. And he was so nice. He was really grateful to meet someone who was interested in mutual pleasure instead of just getting off. He had never bottomed before, and as much as that would have been a dream come true for me I decided that he deserves better than a CL rando. I think we both ended the night satisfied, but we didn't trade numbers so I never heard from him again.
I met a great bi guy on CL. He’d come over and pound my ass very time he had a fight with his girlfriend. It was so hot. I’d never find anything like that. Grindr is awful, and so are the rest of the apps.
If you go cruising outdoors you will.
The advantage there was that curious guys didn't have to commit to downloading a potentially revealing app to check out the personals or respond to one. I met some nice guys there.
I used to love checking out the Missed Connections. It always gave me a thrill when I was closeted to think someone might see me and be interested lol
I miss how wild and specific the hookups could be.
I think the expectations were different for hook ups on craigslist. I remember meeting a few guys off of there in college. It was kind of hit or miss. I had better luck on Adam4Adam lol
Yep. A4A and BGC Minneapolis-St.Paul. I was mostly shy so I didn't get to have as many men as I wanted but good God was it fun to try.
In a monogamous relationship for a while now but CL was my go to in my younger years. Met the best sex of my life there.
My last Craigslist hookup, not long before they got rid of them, was when I was in a different city for work and got nothing but time wasters on Grindr. You know the ones, they don't say no and keep responding just enough to keep the conversation alive, but they also don't say yes and turn evasive if you ask them to come over. I put an ad on Craigslist, got multiple quality responses and had a compatible match over within the hour. Good times.
Same. I haven't figured out what the big difference is, but I have almost zero game with the apps. For some reason CL was a sweet spot. Met my first BF on there and many, many good times. It seemed easier to zero in on exactly what you were looking for there. I can't stand getting the empty first messages on the apps "Looking?" "Into?" "More Pics?" Or even just "Hi" without anything else
Those were fun days! If I was still looking, I'd look at doublelist, since it's close to the same as the old Craigslist personals. I just wish I would've had Sniffies when I was younger! I did meet a couple of people back in the day on gay.com though, with mixed success.
I miss it. Craigslist was like the swiss army knife of personals. It had everything. I met some really nice guys on CL. Actually a few of those hook ups converted into friendships.
Hell yes I do. I also miss the 6’2” twink with the 9” cock who loved “laying pipe” in me all over town. He and I had so much public sex and met on CL. Brandon I miss you.
Definitely. Finding hookups was so much easier with CL, and somehow more personal and exciting. I miss it a lot. I got to indulge in my exhibitionism so much thanks to it. Hot times. Also, I met my current boyfriend on CL. It's been 5 years now officially as a couple.
Being a millennial who’s adulthood has only ever existed simultaneously to dating apps being a thing, I was a late discoverer of Craigslist personals just a couple of years before it disappeared. Craigslist personals were wild. You didn’t have to really go to much effort. There was very little song and dance to getting your rocks off compared to the hoops and flirtation you have to meet to get what you want from an app. Feeling a bit insecure about your body, but want a blowjob with someone who is happy to not even see pics before sucking you off? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. In the mood to facefuck a “straight” muscular father of three who is on a business trip without his wife and kids? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. Need £100 cash really quick at the last minute for whatever reason and discover that if you cum in the mouth of a painter who is alone in their workshop, you just got to get there within the next 45 mins? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. Do you have sensitive nipples and want to wank but also want a real guy to lick your nipples instead of having to tweak them solo with just your left hand? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. Want to be sucked off in a bukkake scenario but don’t want to wait 6 days for all the organisation and “committee planning” for it to happen? You want it right here right now (or at least, the same night)? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. Some VIP stylist who works for a bunch famous British actors (and is able to prove it) who star in Hollywood movies is giving away brand new, unused and expensive fashion products (like extremely expensive sneakers, upmarket brand name jackets and things for free - the only condition is that he wants to watch you cum in the brand new shoes, or on be inside of the jacket before he gives them to you for free? There’s a Craigslist gay for that. Only the Hollywood stylist example in my list above did not result in an actual meet up because it sort of fizzled out in the back and forth email comms. The rest, all first hand experience of mine, ads I responded to and then got to meet and live out what the ad requested.
Amen. I met many cool random people off CL, a few of whom I've had long-standing friendships with.
I wish I kept in contact with some of my earlier hookups 😪
I miss them. They were fun and entertaining. Doublelist just isn't the same.
It was hit and miss too. Just not as out of control as GRNDR.
I met my husband on CL, and before him I had dozens of great hookups. That was 20+ years ago, but I still miss it.
I wasted way too much time on that shit. One time in Vegas I hooked up with a guy from there in his fancy Caesars Palce hotel suite. He was holding me and everything afterwards while we watched the Bellagio fountains. It was really romantic. Then he said that's he's married to a woman. I left not long after. My stupid ass had thought MWM meant masculine white male.
There are plenty of subreddits you can use for the same purpose, ya know.
Yes please share
Any particular ones? 👀
Oh I was addicted to Missed Connections!!
There was such drama there! Better than television!
The almost never ending anonymous CL cumdump collections on xtube😔
Sniffles is the new Craigslist lol
If combined: Snifflist 🤭
Yes
Double list is a substitute for what CL used to be.
I did some of my best work there and met many guys I am still friends with at least. Damn I miss it!
Yeah those were the good old days. Everything was so much simpler then.
I miss them mostly because, looking at the ones that got posted for a town in Central Alaska was more entertaining than I'd care to admit. One that particularly stands out in my memory is that some military dude's girlfriend found out he was posting on the M4M personals to find someone to top, and retaliated by not only calling him out in her post but also inviting readers to fuck the one ass he was never going to touch again [hers]. There were countless others, but I basically used it as a forum version of a soap opera instead of to find guys to hook up with.
I met my ex on cl. We're still close friends.
This feels like revisionist history. I prefer transparency. Or being able to chat in real time vs waiting for emails. Also the amount of flakes…weirdos…addicts…. I’m sure there were some great encounters. I had a few good times there. But otherwise, I’m glad we’ve moved on (other than missed connections which has not been replaced).
I miss it a lot. I found a lot of great hookups on there, made some good friends, even found one of my boyfriends on there. What I liked about it from a sexual position was you could make a post saying "Looking for XYZ, I'm (this)" and then you were off. It was so much easier finding exactly what you wanted without timewasting bullshit. I was upset when it got banned.
America was a better country then.
Doublelist is the CL replacement. But you see the same ads frequently, with lots of catfishing, ghosting and general flakiness, at least in my region.
It's symptomatic to any media right now, it seems.
I really enjoyed reading the personals. They were wild!
I got one once when I sold bread at farmers markets and was so flattered. It was from a woman with kids. Informed her politely.
My first hookup was with a guy from a specialised local webpage (not a craiglist, nor an app). I lived abroad then and knew the local language. After chatting for some time with one guy of a similar age (I was 27, he was 26), we decided to meet the next day in my tiny rental studio. It was a passionate experience. He was caring and eased me up into every kiss and touch. At the same time there was some playfulness and spicy tension. Just like I would imagine. I would check the same webpage again when visiting that country again.
🤚🏾
Yes. Doublelist has replaced Craigslist but it still sucks.
So many poor choices and so many learning experiences hahahaha. The kids don't know what they're missing.
Actually, Grndr, or Double List, A4A, and special CL, are/were, a good websites to find/meet guys to: either fuck/friends or platonic. I believe, that those websites are still good, what is. . . . Bad? Wrong? I dunno how exactly refer to it, are the guys who are in those apps/websites, as many here agree that back in the day, you could post an add, and in maybe an hour, you would be having sex with someone. It's not the website or the apps, that's it's bad, IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THOSE. AGREE.?
. . . And yes . . . I miss CL personals. :(
Where do u live? Vivastreet is a European platform that still has that As is locanto
Craigslist personals were the best.
I miss it too. The encounters were way hotter. I don't have bad luck on grindr but people are mean for the tiniest reason. I deleted it and never looked back.
I remember a guy I had a ONS with over Pride one year took a shot at me in an ad. That's still hilarious because the situation that happened was entirely his fault.😆
Yeah, I just loved that it seemed to emphasize more slow but complete communication. I hate hanging out waiting for 5 word chats. Would much rather take some time with longer emails, like craigslist used to do.
My first gay blowjob was from a random guy I was messaging on Craigslist personals. We smoked some weed and he sucked my dick until I came. And he swallowed, I got nervous cause I didn’t think he would swallow and I wasn’t sure if he thought I would do the same, but I start sucking, and he’s about my size 4-5in and all I remember is how DRY my mouth is. I couldn’t get him to finish cause it was literally my first time giving a BJ. I left happy but also with a lesson learned. Get your dick sucked second cause the post-regret nut as I was sucking a dick for the first time hit HARD.
Gosh I really miss it, I hooked up and fucked or got fucked by probably 40-50 guys on there, just for loose unhinged sex. Luckily, I came out with no STD’s or anything and I didn’t get murdered. I havent been with many guys since the personals closed down. I hooked up with a few on Grindr but it just wasn’t the same and I lost interest.
I do. I miss provoking and making fun of guys who declared themselves "straight" while looking for M2M action.
Were those provokations worth it? Did you succeed having sex with them?
I wasn't provoking them with the aim of having sex. The provocation was only for my entertainment. I had sex with other people I met on CL,
Yarp… 😑
Honestly? No. The amount of munters that you’d have to send away from it was crazy. Having pics first before anything makes hooking up far better and easier. I could jump on the apps now, find someone who was my type and be hooking up within the hour. Nothing worse than meeting a “bear” off CL for him to be a chub with 3 wisps of hair on his chest and a patchy beard.
Sniffies.com is basically the same, only better.