Thanks :) Keep being an excellent human being yourself.

Thank you :)

Ehh, according to some people I'm a 12 year old and I've never even kissed a girl.. you sure you'd want to? :)

I corrected that mistaken use of words in one of the edits I put on the post (which the Jezebel author did not include in her transcript of my post).

Clearly you missed the probably 100 times or more that I said my experience was anecdote, nothing more. I didn't say "This is what will happen." I said "This is what seems to work for me."

I appreciate the response. I got a raving reaction over at reddit, from both genders (not that you can be sure of gender, it is the internet after all). It was well received there, because people had actually read the entire post, including edits, and with the context of the post in mind.

I didn't say ignore. Please show where I said ignore, and I'll happily answer to that.

You caught me! Shucks!

It won't float everyone's boat, but I've had some girls in the clouds from this kind of treatment.

I honestly expected nothing different when someone told me I was on Jezebel. I knew it would be torn apart as "this guy has never kissed a girl" type stuff. When I read it now, I can see how it would come off to them as creepy. It's a lot of detail.

I appreciate this. It's not perfect, and I would NEVER have made the claim that it was anything other than a personal anecdote. I don't mind the reaction it got. I never thought I would ever have made a dent on reddit, let alone show up on a publication.

Yea, it wasn't very clear, and it reads really bad when taken out of the context of the rest of what I said.

It wasn't meant as a guide or a how-to, it was meant as a response to the question: "I've never kissed a girl, and this girl that I like told me she likes me. I need help, I don't know how to show physical affection."

Here's hoping that guy's first time isn't horrible.

True. I probably should have said something along the lines of "Here's some stuff to try, but don't think you HAVE to do any of it."

I didn't write this as a list, or a formula. The writer here at Jezebel called it a "guide" it was not. The numbers were there just for formatting so that it was easier on the reader. There wasn't a whole lot of rhyme or reason to the sequence of things I mentioned. I just wrote things as I thought of them.

I have had such a bizarre day.. it's been quite .. entertaining.

I appreciate that :)

Duly noted.

It's simple. I wrote this for one guy to read. I think it will help him out. I did my best to disclaim it, and to recognize that it was all an anecdotal opinion. I realize he may get slapped in the face. But the guy has never kissed a girl, and can you imagine how scary it is to be 21 and never have kissed a girl?