When I first came here, I knew as little and as much about the city as everyone else. New York is the kind of city that you feel you know because it is so exposed in the medias. "Seinfeld", "Gossip Girl" and "Taxi Driver". They are all here. But there is so much more as well! I've been eavesdropping a lot since I arrived. It's not my fault, people are really loud and not exactly shy here. I've overheard a lot of conversations which could have been taken out of "Sex and the City". People do talk a lot about sex here.

Blond woman passing: ...I just stuffed a lot of things up my vagina...

Quote Carry Bradshaw : I revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty

I went to look at a room on the upper east side, 80th street. The guy who owned the apartment was a nice 35 year old man. He told me, as soon as I walked in the door, that he newly had turned gay. He had been married for eight years with a woman that he now was fighting with over a painting (I don't think that was the reason for the divorce). But he was still interested in women, and most of all "Asian chicks" as he called them. He had been to Thailand a few times, but he had never been with one. But he was planning to go back to there and then he was going to hire a "girlfriend" (long term escort). And he just kept going in that direction. The point here is that I've only spoken to this guy for about two hours and he has told me about all his sexual preferences. I think this is quite funny, as long as I'm not expected to be as open (I tend to answer in a very general way). I saw this posted in one of the room ads on craigslist: ...you have to be comfortable with sex... What does that mean? That your expected to have sex with you roommate, or that there is a lot of sex going on in the apartment and that you cant have any problems with that? In another ad the owner advertised that the room came with "extra benefits" . It was clearly suggesting that you could sleep with the owner.

On the metro I heard a couple arguing loudly:
The guy (in full seriousness): You like me! You are sexually attracted to me, and you know it!
The girl (with a distinct sarcasm in the voice): Oh yeah that's right! I forgot, rip of my clothes and fuck me!

Oppose to me a lot of guys, at least them you hear (obviously), has a lot of self confidence when it comes to what the other gender thinks of them. It's quit common to hear men commenting on passing women. And it's not like the sleazy commenting which is so common in southern Europe, which, though sexist, tends to go towards some kind of romantic compliment. It's much rougher here. The other day I heard this as a man was passing a woman on a Zebra crossing. "That's some piece of ass! I know you want me. You want regret it as soon as you're on your knees!". Somewhat degrading I might say. It happens all the time to the girls I know here. On Saturday (I wasn't there) a fat businessman shouted after E, " Wanna suck some dick for some money?". E went mental and started screaming back after him. FUCK YOU! I wish I was there. I wonder who these guys are. Does he go home to his wife or does he go to his fancy, empty midtown apartment jerking of to porn.

I guess I'll never know.