My second post to Craigslist was due to being particularly "in the mood" and curious and feeling a bit independent and free. (I spent two weeks housesitting, alone, in Duarte.)

I posted in the Casual Encounters section saying essentially, "I'm a curious lesbian who fantasizes about being eaten out by a guy." I received at least 100 IMMEDIATE replies.

My third post to Craigslist was posted in the "Women Seeking Men" section. I wrote out a well-written request seeking plain ol' "guy friends." I received another 50 replies.

My mistake was sending both anonymous e-mails to the same address and, if the subject didn't specify, not knowing which guy was responding to which ad.

Sorting through these posts became a full time job. I finally deleted a number of the Casual Encounter replies and responded to maybe 20 guys telling them they'd made it to Round 2. Around this time I started to realize that the guys I was moving on were the guys that were somewhat sweet and caring and interesting with their responses. Don't get me wrong, I got plenty of hard-core "Let me suck it tonight" e-mails but those got deleted. The guys offering time to get to know them and lots of options to back out were the guys that moved forward. They were also the guys that I found friendly.

Meanwhile the ones that responded to the "Guy Friends" ad were interesting but I wasn't starting off with the straight-forward admission that I was open to being a little more ... intimate.

So I created Craigslist post 4 - which was "lesbian seeks non-threatening guy friends for potential cuddling and intimacy." This time I had the responses sent directly to an pseudonym e-mail address. I received another 100 semi-IMMEDIATE responses and spent another few days sorting through that.

At the end of this - there are about 5 guys that I would like to meet. (And one or two that I would like to keep on hold for any future particular interest in some sort of "no strings attached" encounter.)

Yes - I am a lesbian. But I'm 26 and I've never seen a penis close-up... never had some of that heterosexual intercourse and I'm CURIOUS. So sue me.