Hey Freak!

Check this out:

Hi there! I have an available room in a luxury two bedroom apartment on Lexington Ave. It’s a fantastic place with high ceilings, hardwood floors, a doorman, and a fully decorated living room with state-of-the-art entertainment system. The bedroom available is 10x12 and is available immediately. It’s very close to public transportation and in a great area

I am looking for one male roommate who could help provide services in exchange for greatly reduced rent.

It might sound crazy but this is a great opportunity for a new college graduate or someone just starting out in NYC. I am an extremely busy 28-year-old female professional who travels quite often for work. So you’d actually have the apartment to yourself for a majority of the time.

By “services” I don’t mean sex, it would just be nice to have an attractive male around the house to help with the cooking and cleaning, perhaps without a shirt on.

So if you’re an attractive 20-something male who’s interested, please email me and describe yourself, and perhaps send a picture. I look forward to hearing from you. [view the ad]

What a deal, huh.

OK, really folks, it's a joke. Well, kinda. It's more of a "social experiment," being conducted by little miss FINY. You see, she was looking for a place to live when she came across this ad:

I am looking for one or two women who could help provide services in lieu of rent. I would only ask for cost of utilies, digital cable and minor expenses, roughly $100.

I am a busy 29 year old professional attractive, down to earth, good head on shoulders male who owns my own business and travels a lot for work. I am gone at least two weeks out of the month, sometimes three weeks. So really the two women have the place for themselves a good portion of the month.

The services I would ask would basically be whatever women is willing to offer. I am simply going to listen to best offers and go from there. The services could be as simple as cleaning, basic upkeep of the place, feeding my goldfish, etc. to more personal services whatever women is comfortable with. NOT SEX but anything else a young women could offer, such as massages, walking around apt. in lingerie, bringing young friends around apt. whatever. Fortunately, rent is not my main concern as it simply making my life easier and more pleasurable when i am around those seven to ten days a month. Sounds corny and strange, just don't have time to date or socialize right now, and this is a way to make my life just a bit more interesting and fun when i'm home. NO HIDDEN AGENDAS. Situation could be perfect for someone just starting out or graduating college or grad school student. I think is a great opportunity for the right people. I think its a fantastic deal for very little in return. [read full ad]

Yeah. Real ad.

What's sad is that this isn't the only ad out there like this. Even sadder, although it's very... "odd"... I'll bet that he (and the others) get a lot of responses.

But hey, as long as nobody's being hurt...

So anyways, FINY wants to expand the experiment to different cities. Anybody feel like playing along?

I'd say I'd give Oklahoma City a shot, but I'm kind of afraid, frankly, of what I might come up with on this end. I like my men with teeth, and I don't think the military boys around here would be up for that kind of an arrangement.

Plus... a doorman? In Oklahoma? Are you kidding me? If we have a washer and dryer in the apartment we're considered hoity toity.

Thanks for the help mikey! I've been getting some really interesting responses from NYC and Boston, but those are really the only cities I know well enough to post something in.

Rose, that advice is actually exactly what I'm looking for. So if I posted something for Oklahoma City I'd take out the doorman part of the ad. I got another suggestion from a friend of mine that I should post something in London, and she reminded me to convert the rent into pounds.

I've been really surprised that people are actually responding to the ad. I posted it originally because I thought it was sad that women would demean themselves just to get cheap rent in a nice neighborhood, but it seems men are just as desperate as women

one or two women...

Somebody obviously didn't watch that Bud Light commercial during the Super Bowl closely enough. (Oh no! He's building my shelter next!)

That ad is hilarious!!! Sad thing is that I know some people that would actually answer that!!!

i've seen stuff on craigslist that just blows my mind. like some guy that was going to be in saratoga for a week and was looking for someone to basically have sex with, maybe some dinners and so forth for the week.

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