{"id":48536,"date":"2014-09-17T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=48536"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T11:46:28","slug":"casual-sex-wont-make-you-a-slut-or-his-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=48536","title":{"rendered":"Casual sex won&#8217;t make you a slut (or his girlfriend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A female colleague of mine keeps describing herself, quite proudly, as a slut, and bragging about all no-strings-attached\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtango.com\/sex\">sex<\/a>\u00a0she has with guys &#8230; but then desperately tries to make each of those guys her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtango.com\/2014223833\/love-dating-quiz-who-was-your-boyfriend-your-past-life\">boyfriend<\/a>\u00a0and gets hurt. Here&#8217;s why that method isn&#8217;t working.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear girl that works in my office that describes herself as a slut,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, you&#8217;re not a slut. Stop saying that.<\/p>\n<p>I think that however you want to live your life, as long as it&#8217;s not hurting anyone else, is fine: go for it! When it comes to slut shaming, it&#8217;s a horrible thing to try to make someone feel ashamed for their choices. If a girl or guy wants to have a certain type of sex life, then let them. If you don&#8217;t like it, then just don&#8217;t sleep with those people. As long as they&#8217;re neither hurting nor deceiving anyone, then let them do their thing. It doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: I&#8217;m not slut shaming this girl. I&#8217;m also not virgin shaming anyone else. When it comes to sex, have as much or as little as you want. I am ok with dumb shaming though, which I think is fine. People can be promiscuous if they want, but they shouldn&#8217;t be dumb. Dumb shaming is just fine. If a girl sleeps with a guy that she finds attractive even though she doesn&#8217;t want to marry him shouldn&#8217;t be shamed. Someone that&#8217;s walking around in public looking down at their phone instead of where they&#8217;re going and walks into a wall? Yes, that person should be shamed.)<\/p>\n<p>So once again, back to my point, which is my female coworker: you&#8217;re not a slut. But you&#8217;re having sex in a dumb way, if that makes sense. You go out and pretend to be a self-proclaimed slut, just to get guys to pay attention to you. Which, if that was all you were looking for, would be a great plan. If all you wanted out of these guys was to get them to pay for your drinks, then this would be a great plan. I&#8217;d say &#8220;you go girl&#8221; and high five you.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, you tell guys that you aren&#8217;t looking for a boyfriend, just some fun, and then get mad at them when they don&#8217;t want to be your boyfriend. Which I think is totally unfair.<\/p>\n<p>People always say that guys are just looking for sex. Which is true, we enjoy sex, and we don&#8217;t need a firm commitment that a sexual partner will want to get dinner with us tomorrow. We&#8217;ll still have sex with you. But most guys, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt; guys, are also not monsters. We&#8217;re not going to sleep with a girl who&#8217;s looking for a boyfriend if we don&#8217;t want to be her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>So please stop lying to guys and then getting mad at them for believing that you&#8217;re who you represent yourself as. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with wanting a boyfriend. Just stop trying to trick guys into being your boyfriend. That&#8217;s a terrible plan. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with anybody who&#8217;s just looking for casual sex, guy or girl. People like that tend to not want to be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtango.com\/relationships\">relationships<\/a>\u00a0though.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re clearly looking for a boyfriend, because you&#8217;re always upset that some guy isn&#8217;t trying to be one or you&#8217;re complaining about being\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtango.com\/single\">single<\/a>. So change your tactic. Present yourself as someone who&#8217;s looking for a boyfriend. What you&#8217;re doing now is like you&#8217;re fishing with the wrong bait. Of course all you&#8217;re catching are fish that don&#8217;t want to meet your parents.<\/p>\n<p>Look, it&#8217;s your life, do what you want to do. Just be honest with yourself. Or stop complaining about it the office. That&#8217;s all I really want.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Your friend Mike<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yourtango.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female colleague of mine keeps describing herself, quite proudly, as a slut, and bragging about all no-strings-attached\u00a0sex\u00a0she has with guys &#8230; but then desperately tries to make each of those guys her\u00a0boyfriend\u00a0and gets hurt. Here&#8217;s why that method isn&#8217;t working. Dear girl that works in my office that describes herself as a slut, No, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-48536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}