Profile Review Please

Americus, GA, Us

If I could laughing I think might be embarrassed!! You both make me laugh, or make me laugh at myself. Who would have ever thought this would be so technically challenging and difficult. But I sure can't say I disagree with one thing that either one of you has said.

Well, back to the drawing board. It might be another month but I'll check in again when I'm ready for another spanking....thank you ma'am may I have another?? Baaaahhaaaaww. Thank you both for the guidance and patience.

Fort Payne, AL, Us

Well you moved out of "oh hell no" into the "meh, probably not" category so progress has been made - but you still have work to do! Remember - this is all about your profile, not about you personally.

A consistent writing style might help the overall look and feel of your profile. Right now it looks like different people wrote different sections. You have a lot of repetition, a lot of typos, and grammar and punctuation issues that make it look like you are composing on your phone and can't see much of the profile all at once. Don't refer to yourself as a single male - sure, the dictionary says male and female can be used as nouns, but 99.9% of the time they are used as adjectives (SLS is trying to increase the noun usage). Every time I see "single male" or "single female" I ask "single male (or female) what?" and giggle while I mentally suggest giraffe, hippo, hyena...

Rather than just list adjectives in Description it would be more helpful to also tell us a bit about what you like - movies, hiking, breweries, wineries, fishing, Frisbee with the dog, building treehouses with the kids, etc. You want people to think - "hey, I like that too" and decide to contact you.

Think of this as part resume, part advertisement and part initial meeting - you want to send a cohesive message that is classy and fun as well as informative. You've got fun covered - and some of it isn't translating well to the written word (see MsMolly's comment about creeper). The various styles in each section make me wonder who's going to show up - a classy but fun loving guy or the putz that writes in bullet points or the guy in such a hurry that he can't proofread his profile. The suggestion to read it out loud sounds silly but it really does work for finding awkward phrasing.

Your pictures aren't bad - although a bit of cropping so you are highlighted more wouldn't hurt some of them. As you add more photos remember to smile, watch for clutter or visual chaos in the background and avoid selfies. Remember the stuffed cat seeming to sit on your head - don't do that again!

Looking forward to the next round of improvement!

~Phoebert's Wife

Phoenix, AZ, Us

Hi. Thanks for coming back. It won't be as rough as the first time and it's still well meant, but, yeah, I have some more criticism to hand out.

You've got some repetition and some weird syntax, all of which would be improved if you read your profile out loud and then fixed what sounded wrong. Like "...would like to hang out and get to know and enjoy the company of a single male." There is a syntax error and one of grammar hanging out in that short phrase and it would be improved if it was "...get to know and enjoy a single man." Or it could be "...enjoy the company of and get to know a single man." English is a little weird on compound phrases and there are regional differences. Anyway, that's the end of that lesson. Read the whole thing out loud and fix anything that sounds weird.

The paragraph about gangbangs should be rewritten and put in Fantasies and if you really are interested, you might want to open your profile a tiny slice to other men, because gangbang groups run by a guy are a thing.

And that last weird bit at the end of Looking For is all kinds of wrong and makes you sound like a creeper rather than someone charming.

Description is an essay question and if you really think about what you wrote do you really want people viewing you as the opposite of disease free and hygienic? So, rewrite that to remove the logic errors.

Fantasies is repetitive and so is Additional comments. Put some more thought into both of these sections.

Other than that, you didn't do a spelling and grammar check, because you have avoidable typos. Do you really want to give the impression that you can't be fucking bothered?

Think of this as a resume, where if you get the job you get to have sex. Do you or do you not want to put your best foot forward?

Good luck.

Americus, GA, Us

Ok, I finally got around to going through my profile and I believe it is somewhat improved. I would appreciate the constructive criticism again. I think... LMAO!!
Thank y'all

Americus, GA, Us

Ok, I finally got around to going through my profile and I believe it is somewhat improved. I would appreciate the constructive criticism again. I think... LMAO!!
Thank y'all

Americus, GA, Us

No offense taken and I agree it all makes some sense to me. I am working on it and should have an actual computer in the next couple of weeks. I will get the dead animal off and work towards the rest.
Damn, I guess having computers and people assisting with my memo and letter writing over the past 30 years actually has become a disability for me. ????
One I can overcome with some guidance and patience.

Thank you all for the advice and I am certainly going to be working on it. I might need to go take a English course though. At least that is what they called it when I was in school. Baàaahaaaa

Americus, GA, Us

No offense taken and I agree it all makes some sense to me. I am working on it and should have an actual computer in the next couple of weeks. I will get the dead animal off and work towards the rest.
Damn, I guess having computers and people assisting with my memo and letter writing over the past 30 years actually has become a disability for me. ????
One I can overcome with some guidance and patience.

Thank you all for the advice and I am certainly going to be working on it. I might need to go take a English course though. At least that is what they called it when I was in school. Baàaahaaaa

Americus, GA, Us

No offense taken and I agree it all makes some sense to me. I am working on it and should have an actual computer in the next couple of weeks. I will get the dead animal off and work towards the rest.
Damn, I guess having computers and people assisting with my memo and letter writing over the past 30 years actually has become a disability for me. ????
One I can overcome with some guidance and patience.

Thank you all for the advice and I am certainly going to be working on it. I might need to go take a English course though. At least that is what they called it when I was in school. Baàaahaaaa

AandJinNNJVeteran
Ringwood, NJ, Us

You've got great advice so far.

Get rid of the pic with the dead animals hanging on your wall!

Fort Payne, AL, Us

MsMolly gave you the disclaimer but remember - it is all about your profile, not you personally.

Currently you have what I think of as a "Oh hell no!" profile. Normally I would not have gotten to the ludicrous warning in Additional Comments as I was so turned off by Looking For and Description. There are a few nuggets of the gentleman referenced in the Certs but they are buried in bullshit. Delete all the nasty things you don't want to do, stop telling people how to act and/or react and show us how charming and enticing you can be. You have some things that should be moved to other sections - the bit about perhaps hosting a party might be a good way to end on positive note (but delete the "if anyone..." bit at the end - it's unnecessary).

There is a lot of repetition and bad punctuation so find a computer so that you can see your entire profile at one time (that small phone screen is useless for something like this). After you delete all the horrid stuff, fix what can be fixed, move what should be moved and perhaps add a bit more info then you'll need to run it all through a spell check and grammar check (but even that won't fix the use of discrete when you mean discreet). And reading it out loud will help find awkward phrasing and missing words - sounds silly but it works. MsMolly was quite thorough in her advice about the worst problems - read it again & pretend I said it also.

You were adding pictures as I was writing this but I'm not sure they're all that good. You have two that are essentially the same - where it looks like a stuffed/mounted cat is sitting on your head (classic example of visual chaos in the background). Keep only the one where you're smiling if you must - but the cat is really distracting. The one in the kitchen isn't horrid but it needs to be cropped so you are the focus (instead of all that ceiling). I'd delete the one with the red curtain - you look bored (not particularly the look you want women to remember you for). The kayaking photo isn't bad for a selfie. Velma has great advice for core pictures for your public gallery - if she doesn't show up with advice then go looking for what she told other single guys. My advice is simple - smile, watch for clutter or visual chaos in the background and avoid selfies.

I think you can make this work for you - good luck!

~Phoebert's Wife

Phoenix, AZ, Us

Hi. Disclaimer: Almost every criticism given in response to a request for a profile review is, however harsh it might seem, well meant and designed to help you remove the obstacles that keep you from getting laid. So, might feel mean, isn't meant that way. Got that? Good, because I don't like your profile much at all and can see it from really getting in your way.

First, your photos aren't great. The default isn't terrible, although it could definitely be improved, but why is the other photo a naked back view shot? It's not a good look. Please put some clothing on and have other people take your photos.

As far as text, you don't seem to understand capitalization even a little bit. Starting with your tagline, which isn't very inviting but isn't a complete loss, only the first word is capitalized.

In Looking For, dear God why on earth would you introduce yourself by talking about not liking excrement? Lose that along with everything else you don't want, because it's highly unlikely that anyone will ever ask you for any of those things and everyone else reading your profile won't need to be nauseated.

I also don't care about what kind of verification you want from husbands of hotwives. Work that out in private and if you feel you really must handle that ahead of time, just say "playing with permission." Or move the whole thing down to Fantasies and/or Additional comments and handle it in a positive way instead of with the big ole ball of negativity you have going now.

Actually, kill all the negativity. It makes you sound like peevish and as if you one of those old guys shouting "get off my lawn" to the kids.

So, Looking For - stay positive, talk about what you do want, stop referring to women as females (it's poor grammar) in people and in what you are looking for in terms of interactions. FWBs, partner in crime, NSA, whatever.

Description - Your weird capitalization thing is in full flower here. Only initial words and proper nouns get capitalized. Not all of this. Those aren't the only typos either, which tells me you used your phone and you shouldn't have. Haul out whatever you have that has spelling and grammar checks and use it. I think it's mostly okay otherwise, except that you need an extra blank line between the second and last paragraph.

In Fantasies, you have a logic error. Having a wingman does not increase my play opportunities, which pretty much every woman who plays solo knows. I add a guy and there I am, looking for a four way connection, which is exponentially harder than a three way match. So, maybe stop trying to sell snake oil, hmmmm. ;-)

Additional comments has that stupid, stupid warning that floats around the interwebs. It's bullshit, based on an incorrect internet legend, completely unenforceable, and marks you as hopelessly naive, so please lose it. Instead, find a pleasant and semi-charming way to end.

That's all I have at the moment. Sorry it was so comprehensively negative, but until you clean this up you won't have much success on line.

Good luck, collect other opinions and make whatever changes you see fit (except definitely get rid of that nonsense in Additional comments) and then come back for a review.

Americus, GA, Us

I'm wonering if it is my
profile, pictures, or just rude people, but I hardly ever get approached or answers to my approaches!!

I try humor, make sure to keep it short, at least somewhat intelligent and correct spelling without any text speak.

I would appreciate any constructive criticism. (I think..lol)