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“Well, things have moved on a bit since we’ve last met,” Callum greets me with a big smile as we sit down to follow up on our last conversation from six weeks ago. “I had a great response from the blog post. Funnily enough, not from any girls but from lots of guys who felt exactly the same as me.”  “It made me feel so much better, as I now know that I’m not the only one who gets tongue-tied in front of a pretty woman.” “I had to take my head out of my backside to see that things are really not that gloomyRead More →

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“I went out with this girl two years ago. She was six years older than me, and we got on really well. I was in love with her, but she felt that the age difference mattered and finished it. I was heartbroken,” Callum reveals and shrugs his shoulders in a disillusioned gesture. I’m sitting opposite this young man, who wants to talk to me about his inability to find another girlfriend since the breakup, despite various determined efforts, and I’m scratching my head why he is still single. On paper, Callum is every girl’s dream: 6ft 1” tall, muscular (he’s obviously a regular gym-goer), andRead More →

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Nineteen and never been kissed. Painfully aware of her inadequacy when it came to the opposite sex, she leant against the smooth white pillar at the corner of the dance floor which was teeming with young glowing bodies writhing and bouncing to the tune of the music and dizzying light show. Everybody was flirting with each other; sexual chemistry was sizzling through the air like sparks emerging from a hot bonfire. She sighed and was just about to turn away when something caught her eye: there, leaning on the other pillar right across the floor, looking just as bored was Chris. Her Chris. Well, he didn’tRead More →