A 'Sheffield guy' angered hundreds of women by advertising for casual hookups on the popular parenting advice website
A single guy who went looking for 'no strings attached' sex on Mumsnet got extremely short shrift from the parenting community.
The
internet lothario logged onto the popular advice website on Tuesday
afternoon, claiming to be a 35-year-old man from Sheffield who was 6
foot tall and "well endowed".
He said he was recently single and a "very attentive and confident lover" not looking for a relationship, just some "NSA (no strings attached) fun."
"Not into one night stands," he said. "I'd rather click with someone a bit and have repeated fun whenever convenient for both of us.
"(I am) very open minded and quite kinky," he continued, "but just as happy to have a more regular intimate encounter as well.
"So if you’re bored sexually at home, or not getting any at all… drop me a private message. I’m happy to travel up to an hour or so from Sheffield."
It's safe to say Romeo wasn't inundated with eager messages in response to his offer.
One
reply sarcastically bet his inbox would be "ON FIRE" and users began to
suggest the author was a 'troll' - a person who posts deliberately
inflammatory material in the hope that they'll get a response.
Site administrators promptly deleted the thread, replacing it with a comical limerick.
The site's army of 850,000 middle class parents have become a key constituency in British politics, with parties recognising them as opinion formers - people they need to win over.
David
Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg all took part in online Q&A
sessions on the website before the last general election.
The parenting website, on which sex is referred to as "baby dancing", saw their servers go into meltdown in October after a question about a "penis beakers" went viral.
User SaraCrewe left the community lost for words, as she asked about users' post-coital cleanup routines.
Entitled "Do you dunk your penis?", it read as follows: "We have a dedicated post-sex cleanup area on the bedside table.
"A box of tissues, a small bin, and a beaker of clean water for temporary cleaning/dunking while the bathroom is occupied by me.
"Apparently our penis beaker is strange and not the done thing."
Sara then enquired if she and her husband are alone in their use of a penis beaker.
The response was unsurprisingly raucous.
One wrote: "Urgh - the thought of that makes me nauseous!"
"Has there ever been a midnight mixup with a glass of drinking water?" asked another.
"No. We have a normal bedside table. With books and a lamp," another added.
