[Fitzgerald]

Thanks for reposting this, durangotang, it's an intense read. I've read the piece several times and though my dry spell wasn't as long as his, this piece really hit close to the chest for me as well. A big point to it is that sex is really nothing to chicks, and in many ways, it's everything to us dudes (very depedestalizing), among others. Many brilliant comments on the blog's page as well.

Disclaimer: tl,dr - the math does add up, his wording is just a little clumsy at points.

To address the math discrepancies y'all are seeing, lemme clear it up: the author is 37 at the time of the posting. His high school girlfriend and his ex-wife are the same person. He lost his virginity to her when they were both 17ish, and they broke up afterwards ('cuz he was too beta). He then spent the next 12 years in-cel, being a nice guy and obviously not getting laid. He then attends the 30th birthday party of the woman who will soon be his wife (they're not yet "together" at this point) and then ex-wife, which is where he leaves and commences banging strippers (I know, sounds fishy, but the author seems quite intelligent, and he essentially decided to do the exact opposite of everything he'd done before, so I'll buy it). He marries the girl he banged in high school (she was obviously looking to hop off the carousel), because he's banging strippers and it gets her steamy, and he, being the beta at heart, starts the ever familiar slide into betatude, and *bingo, bango, bongo*, they get divorced (which I believe happened this past year). But, he was more savvy this time, and started working on his game just a couple months after. Hope this helps y'all, I had to read through a few times myself to piece it all together.

Check out his other posts, he's a pretty funny guy, and thanks to the original author, M3.