Jezebel: Craigslist

Bristol Palin Solicits Friends via Craigslist, Offers Free Muffins

Lindy West — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:20:00 EST

Just kidding — no muffins. Apparently Bristol Palin's tour for her book, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, is drawing exactly the crowds you'd expect for a "memoir" written by a failed Star-dancer/unrepentant charlatan/world's pregnantest abstinence expert who was born in nineteen-goddamn-ninety. That is, zero. Zero crowds. So, logically, Palin is trolling for "fans" on Craigslist, that wonderland of dick pics, spambots, and murderers-masquerading-as-a-guy-who-just-wants-to-buy-your-futon. IT IS A FOOLPROOF PLAN. More »

Police Suggest You Conduct Your Craigslist Transactions Down at the Station

Cassie Murdoch — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:05:00 EST

Police in Milwaukee are offering a unique service: they'll let you conduct your Craigslist transactions inside the police station, to prevent you from being robbed. Handy! The idea came about after a big uptick in robberies that occurred during the hand-off of goods sold on Craigslist. Police officer Lisa Staffold explains, "The media has deemed it 'robbery by appointment' because you're posting ads, you're selling your iPhones, your iPads, your vehicles, and when you go to a meeting location, you're being robbed." More »

Today In Warm Fuzzies: Woman Finds Kidney Donor On Craigslist

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:10:00 EST

Craigslist is good for more than just finding cheap used furniture for your apartment. Out of desperation, 28-year-old Selina Hodge posted an ad for a kidney donor in July and wound up getting 800 responses. One was from 23-year-old Stephanie Grant, who lives nearby in Florida and saw a story about Hodge on TV. "I had a gut instinct when I saw the request for a donor on television. I had to get involved," she said. The women underwent surgery this week and so far it seems that there were no complications. Hodge's mother, Gina Evans, said of Grant, "It just amazes me that somebody would actually lay down their life for a complete stranger." More »

Weirdo Would Like To Trade Weed For 'Teens'

Anna North — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:20:00 EST

A Craigslist poster has some weed to offer — and he or she is asking for an unusual form of payment. Below, the full ad: More »

Resourceful Doctor Charged With Trading Drugs For Sex On Craigslist

Anna North — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Today's Worst Doctor Award goes to Joshua Baron, a pediatric neurologist who was just charged with giving out various painkillers in exchange for sex. He advertised these exchanges on Craigslist. More »

Watch Jessica Walter Read Filthy Craigslist 'Missed Connections' Aloud

Whitney Jefferson — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:38:12 EDT

Documentarian Seeks Adult Babies Via Craigslist

Anna North — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:20:00 EDT

A friend was searching for job opportunities on Craigslist when he came upon this, um, job: More »

Fancy Mattress, Complete With Afterbirth Stains, For Sale On Craigslist

Whitney Jefferson — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:10:00 EDT

Oh, Craigslist: will you ever cease to amaze? Please turn your attention to this ad placed in the "For Sale" section of Dallas Craigslist. What might look like a regular, used Tempur-Pedic mattress is most definitely not: More »

Craigslist Poster Seeks Partners For "Manhood Camping," Totally Non-Sexual Group Masturbation

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:16:00 EDT

Before you read this epic Craigslist post, be advised that this camping trip isn't a sex thing. Sure, it involves men going off into the woods to jerk off as a group next to a campfire, but just to reiterate, NOT A SEX THING, BRO. More »

How to Set Up the Perfect Online Dating Profile

Sam Biddle — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:26:00 EDT

You were dumped. Or you dumped someone. Maybe you just can't find that new someone to love, or just make out with. Why not try online dating? We pulled our team of experts together to guide you. More »

Time Travel Available, Only Dudes Need Apply

Anna North — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:10:00 EDT

A dude wants to pay you $3,000 to test his time machine. Unfortunately, you must be male. More »

Race And Craigslist Dating: An Experiment

Elaine Dove — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:13:00 EDT

I'm a tall, half Asian woman. I'm a performing artist and a healer. I dance in nightclubs, as well as talk to people about their problems. I have tattoos. I dress in black and chrome a lot. I'm Buddhist. I speak Texan fluently. All of these could be qualifying or disqualifying factors depending on who you're talking to in the online dating world. All of this swirls together into a bewildering racial and cultural stew that defies straightforward presentation. More »

World's Most Meticulous MILF Will Clean House For You

Anna North — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:05:00 EDT

A "30 married, mother with years of home making experience" is advertising her services on Craigslist under the headline "milf cleaning." Here's her ad: More »

Entrepreneur Seeks "Virtual Dating Assistants" For Busy Online Daters

Anna North — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:50:00 EDT

Are you unemployed and unscrupulous? Perhaps you would enjoy a job conducting people's online dating lives for them. If so, here's the Craigslist ad for you: More »

Flirting Website Takes Missed Connections To A New Level

Lane Moore — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:50:00 EDT

Everyone has had a moment where they wish they'd flirted a bit more (or flirted at all) with someone they met in passing. Some of those people post vague missed connections ads on Craigslist, and now some of them can turn to LikeaLittle.com, a new flirting site that has become increasingly popular on college campuses. More »

The Trouble With Child Sex Trafficking Statistics

Irin Carmon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:26:38 EDT

The Village Voice Media-owned City Pages has published a 3,000-word cover story debunking recent numbers showing a rise in child sex trafficking online. While it's quite damning to the group that put together the "study," the company is hardly an impartial actor here: Its Backpage.com has long been the target of anti-trafficking groups, who already helped take down the Craigslist counterpart. More »

Craigslist Man Makes Woman "Consensual" Sex Slave

Lane Moore — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:55:00 EST

This is what happens, Larry. This is what happens when you respond to a harmless "Come live here for free! All I ask is that you cook and clean for me. And that you're a woman" Or it's what happened to one woman in Wisconsin, horrifyingly. More »

The Disturbing Story Of The Craigslist "Sex Slave"

Irin Carmon — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:36:48 EST

We know full well that not every Craigslist story ends in horror. (More often they end with a great deal on furniture!). And yet it's impossible not to shudder at the story of a young Wisconsin woman who answered an ad on the site for free rent in exchange for cooking and cleaning. More »

What Rep. Lee's Bare Chest Will Cost Republicans

Irin Carmon — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:07:12 EST

Yesterday, our brother site Gawker brought down a congressman in three hours flat. More »

"Craigslist Serial Killer" Suspected In Murder Of Four Women

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:50:00 EST

Police have identified four bodies found on a Long Island beach last month as prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist. Signs point to a serial killer, and one victim's family members received disturbing calls from an unidentified man after her disappearance. More »

Craigslist Poster Explains Her Quest For Platonic Love

Anna North — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:51:00 EST

The woman who's looking for a platonic lover via Craigslist has responded to our questions with a thoughtful letter about her sexuality, her motives, and her requirements for a platonic mate. More »

Deep-Pocketed Woman Will Pay For Platonic Love

Anna North — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:23:00 EST

This New Year, one woman decided to take herself out of the dating game in a unique way — by searching for platonic love on Craigslist. That means no sexytime — but she is willing to pay. More »

Craigslist Can No Longer Help You Get An Erotic Massage Anywhere

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:12:00 EST

Craigslist, which has caught flack in the US for providing users quick access to illegal sexual services, unceremoniously pulled its "Adult Services" section from international versions of the site. Guess back to "Casual Encounters" again for me. More »

Teacher Unjustly Punished For Revealing Her Sex-Work Past

Anna North — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:34:00 EDT

An elementary school teacher has been reassigned for publicly revealing her past as a stripper and prostitute. Does this confirm her claim that society is afraid of sex workers? More »

A Sex Worker On Life After Craigslist

Trixie the Anonymous Domme — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:07:00 EDT

Now that Craigslist has removed their Adult Services, we can assume that all the "exploited" women of the world can breathe safely. But what about all the women who happily and voluntarily advertised their erotic services on Craiglist? More »

Busy Bachelor Seeks Part-Time Wife

Anna North — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:48:00 EDT

Sometimes a crap Craigslist ad drips with douchery aforethought — and sometimes the dude responsible just seems authentically, painfully clueless. The following missive from a currently wife-less "professional" falls into the latter camp. More »

Why The Craigslist Sex Crackdown Won't Change Much

Irin Carmon — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:22:41 EDT

Over the weekend, a black bar labeled "censored" appeared where the link to Craigslist's adult services used to be. So far, the company isn't talking, but the move has reignited the debate over censorship, anti-trafficking strategies, and sex workers rights. More »

Craigslist Killer Lends Urgency To Campaign Against "Adult Services"

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:50:00 EDT

In response to accused "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff's suicide, attorneys general from 17 states have sent a letter to Craigslist CEOs urging them to shut down the site's "Adult Services" section because it promotes prostitution and sex trafficking. More »

Crap Craigslist From A Dude: "Go Away Nicely And Quietly And Don't Hate Me"

Hortense Smith — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:25:00 EDT

Though most dudes tend to send their crap via email, this particular dude, as a reader points out, has gone above and beyond, creating what can only be referred to as a CCPFRAD: "Crap Craigslist Post From A Dude." More »

Amazing Craigslist Request For Inception-Themed Sex [NSFW]

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:23:00 EDT

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Do you like Inception? How about anonymous sex? If so, don your Dom Cobb costume and prepare to be "kicked back to a dream world where you can only think of inferior rim jobs you've had." Oh, but there's more! More »

Crowd-Sourcing Revenge Sex On Craigslist

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:35:00 EDT

Well, this seems like a rather bad idea. More »

Those Are Not Lindsay Lohan's Boobs

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EDT

If you were excited about seeing Lindsay Lohan in Marc Ecko's new campaign, well, too bad: the label used a model for a body double and 'Shopped on Lindsay's face. But who is the masked girl? [Daily Mail]

Kindergarten Graduation Turns Violent When Moms Fight Over Facebook

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Two California women were arrested last month after they started a brawl at a kindergarten graduation. What began as an argument quickly turned physical, at which point several men got involved, forcing the officials to place the school on lockdown.

Dear Craigslist Users Attempting To Send Me Missed Connections

Sadie Stein — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:34:00 EDT

Hi. I think there are a few things we need to clarify, because your Missed Connections aren't reaching me and it's obviously not my fault. More »

Being A Fake Girlfriend Has Profitable Potential

Anna North — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:37:00 EDT

"Get paid $16 per hour to be my pretend girlfriend," reads the Craigslist ad. "No touching ever." The context is depressing, plain. But in other situations, some ladies could find this to be a profitable opportunity. More »

For Sale: Racist Lawn Ornaments

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:40:00 EDT

Spotted on Craigslist Jersey Shore: An assortment of lawn jockeys and other charming handcrafted items like "Watermelon Boy" and "Shotgun Shell Mailbox." The seller notes, "WE CATER TO ALL PAST PURCHASERS AND TRUE AMERICANS. WOW WOW WOW." [Craigslist via Wonkette] More »

Paranoid Dude Seeks Lady To Spy On His Potential Fiancée

Sadie Stein — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Is this post for real? We're kinda hoping not...but let's say it is, in fact, a verifiable Crap Posting From A Dude: More »

"Crowdsourcing Revenge" Works For Celebs And Civilians

Anna North — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:30:00 EDT

First M.I.A. tweeted her interviewer's number, then a disgruntled subject put a blogger's contact info on Craigslist Casual Encounters. Is "crowdsourcing revenge" the new way of lashing back at unfavorable coverage? More »

We've Found The Man You're Looking For

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:20:00 EDT

According to SpoiledHottie's ad on Craigslist D.C.'s "Adult Gigs" section, this "spiritual guy" knows many strip club owners and has a "goon squad." He's seeking a "secure, self motivated dreamer to be cool enough to hang with me." Ladies? [Craigslist] More »

Feminist Craigslist Dating Experiment: Not All Bad

Alexandra Tweten — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:20:19 EDT

As a follow-up to my first post highlighting the "bad and ugly" anti-feminist responses I received to my Craigslist ad for feminist dating partners, I promised to feature some of the good. So here's one of the first replies received: More »