I believe this is perhaps the oddest thing that has ever been asked of me.
I recieved this in my Myspace inbox this afternoon.
I’m currently working on a piece for the award-winning sexuality and culture magazine Nerve.com, and was hoping to interview you for my article. I saw in your profile that you work in a comic store.
My piece is a column entitled “Sex Advice from Comic Book Store Clerks.”
“SAF…” is a regular, weekly Nerve feature that asks real people for “sex advice” in response to common problems.
I’d need to ask you for answers to a bunch of general sex questions. I would need to include your first name and a photo of you, but I wouldn’t use your last name (unless you want me to!).
Can you let me know if you would be interested in participating? If so, I will send you a list of questions via email and you can send your answers back to me.
Thanks much! Looking forward to hearing from you.
I am used to getting crazy shit from Myspace but really this takes the cake.
Seriously though, sex advice from me? I get uncomfortable selling people the porn comics we keep behind the counter.
I think that is hilarious!
As a former comic store employee I noticed, more than anything, is that the young men and women, my colleagues pretty much kept their sex lives to themselves and I think would have preferred to watch a good movie, or gaming, or just hang out and rank on each other, than the complication of going out on a date and possibly get laid. Somehow, I don’t know, that seemed healthier to me, and I was sorry that I missed the boat on all of that since I started working the store later in my life.
The puritans showed that sexual repression leads to crazies Smith. I think you should do it. Hell, if nothing else, just have fun with it. Anonymous internet personas are part of what makes America great.
Strange question and strange column indeed. Another thing I find rather strange is that anyone who already has a wordpress blog would feel the need for a myspace account…
Actually, Google Laura Barcella, she is a known writer. I have read a lot of her stuff.
But then again I can understand the awkwardness of a total stranger asking you to answer questions like these.
Absolutely! Be sure to read some Japanese Manga (Hentai style) before the interview!