TouchedByMadness

Smooth Operator

This post is part of the Grassroots Blogger Book Marketing Campaign 2008, and is meant to generate donations for The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN).

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There was a time in my life (not so very long ago) when I truly believed that my sex appeal could be rated somewhere below that of a geriatric stripper. I have since realized that I was dating all the wrong men. Men who loved me like a sister. Men who “respected” me too much. Men that never even considered finding and pocketing a pair of my underwear.

At a certain point, that becomes bad for the self-esteem.

I recall one night in particular when I decided to make an attempt at being seductive. I wore something curve-accentuating, put on make-up and perfume, and dimmed all the lights. When my then-boyfriend arrived, I opened the door just a bit and leaned against the frame. Blocking the entrance with my body, I asked him suggestively, “What’s the password?”

He stared at me dumbfounded for a moment. Then he answered, thoroughly disoriented, “Um . . . camel?”

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