What happened with Women, part II
The girls in Doha
In the last year or so, I found that the quality and quantity of girls on the dating apps are both going down, not sure why. There was even this period, in October 2017, where I would open Badoo and see about 8-10 girls online - for the whole of the city (which counts 2.7M people). 8 to 10! And engaging them by chat was simply a challenge. Of course! Because there were probably dozens of guys online at the same time, and the girls were having the time of their life chatting 10 guys at the same time. You would send a message, and although obviously online, she would not read it before 10 minutes.
On the quality side, it's no longer like in 2015-2016 when you had a lot of genuine girls looking for a boyfriend. In terms of attractiveness, it's mostly HB6 / HB7 girls. Plus, you now have tons of prostitution in any of its many shades. Such as a girl showing abundant skin and stating on her profile "straight to the point!" - i.e. "make me a financial offer". If you chat her, she will never state openly she's a prostitute, but delay as long as possible to announce the color, possibly until after she hit your bedroom (see an example of that Doreen on my last LR): expecting, in fact, that the man is one framing it first as a business deal. Then you have those who expect you to "help them financially", or have a "mutually agreeable deal". If you mention it's money for sex, they would deny and say it's like helping a friend... These dating apps offer now plenty of possibilities to be a prostitute
Actually the girl from
this LR gave me
an interesting insight on the dating apps problem. There is a significant proportion of the males in this country, who believe in purchasing sex. They would skip the crap and make a financial offer right off the bat. This screws up the whole dynamics. Girls who would rather build real relations get pissed off and leave quickly. And other figure out that well, they might as well make some money and save. The prostitution, after all, is free of social consequences since they will later return to their country and no one would know what they did. So these girls now start to expect the guy to make a financial offer. On the guy side, you don't know at all if you are dealing with a normal girl or another opportunistic prostitute. On the girl side, for a normal girl, you wonder if this guy is just another creepy pig. For an opportunistic would-be sugar baby you wonder why the guy is not making an offer. All screwed up!
And again,
it is another illustration of the fact that men's awful behaviors and beliefs are responsible for all the crap in dating.
In spite of that, I still managed to score of few hits in this city... Nothing really too exciting to be honest. But overall I eventually just got sick of all this crap, and focused on traveling instead. In the meantime my pool of FBs here dwindled progressively to zero. In fact, I even ditched the last one because frankly the sex was of poor quality. My life in Doha became essentially focused around my workouts, my job, and starting off my blog.
Lately however, I opened my Badoo and Tinder again. And in fact, it's no longer as bad as last year! And I see sometimes up to 20 or 25 online at once. It is workable again, although the attractiveness hasn't improved much. Problem being, I have met a few girls which are 8 or 9 in my book (I never rate 10). I just find it hard to go down now.
But I should! Just get one or two for now then climb up the food chain. It is important to keep the abundance mentality. For that, I really need to astrain myself to dedicating at least 5 hours a week to dating - the way I used to two years ago. That's what it takes to get started. And this is where this Journal has helped me a lot in the past. You write your objectives then hold yourself accountable. Such as what I did
here.
So. Need to kick my ass again. In the end, it's again about beating laziness.
Instagram
My Instagram has been good to me. The followers count is still growing (I now about 1650). And, once in a while, I receive a spontaneous DM of a girl who is obviously interested. Maybe like 15 in the last 6 months?
But now, the problem is that these girls could be anywhere in the world! In the past, I have arranged trips to meet (and fuck) some of my instagram followers. Miss K (in my previous post) is the biggest success story. Unfortunately though,it's not always immediately feasible. And the "beat the iron while it's hot" rule still applies!
I had a few such stories happening this summer - problem was, I had my children with me for a whole 6 weeks! While it was certainly good from the dad perspective, it didn't help my love affairs. Here are a few selected cases.
Crazy IG twerker from Kenya
She is the sort of Instagram girl with 17000 followers while following 39 (including me), posting tons of videos of herself twerking her ass all around in the house. She's the one sending a follow request and texting me first. However in mid July I was just about to be in full time daddy mode for 6 weeks. No way I could have arranged a quick weekend in Kenya to see this crazy hot chick from closer. I tried to make her wait, saying that I won't be available again for travel before at least three months. Then I got busy with paternal life, and she grew crazy that I wasn't initiating chats, and out of the blue blocked me. It got better though, mid September she unblocked me then re-initiated texting. The texting takes a very sexy tone, and she sends pics making no mystery of her boobs and shapes. However when I start to discuss logistics of a quick trip, she suddenly start throwing requests, such as "buy me an iPhone". When I reject the frame, she now rules out sex: "the theme is meeting and knowing one another, nothing sexual". After all the sexual vibes in our texting! I just kill it off.
Miss Goody Two Shoes
(Loving this expression from BlackDragon). Another distant IG follower, very sexy and classy, always dressed nicely business style. She has been throwing a comment here and there on my IG posts whenever I was traveling to her city, on the mode "why you didn't invite me". May 22nd, I comment on one of her stories, she replies, then we start chatting. The mood is good and we connect. A couple of weeks later, I have a two weeks holiday approved. I could do a few days in her city, before flying to the Philippines (my original plan), so I start to discretely poll for her interest in meeting. There is an initially warm reception, followed by an absence of reactivity. I figure it's a risky bet, so I proceed with my initial plan (two full weeks in Philippines - which turned out a very nice trip). However when she sees my IG posts from the Philippines, she reaches out to me in frustration and imply she was expecting me to come. Oh well. We keep in touch until mid July, I get busy in daddy mode, then she disappears (probably another dick in the picture). There is a quick text exchange in September, but it now sounds cold. She's no longer very active in IG as she used to, so I guess there are other things going on with her now. To be continued.
The beautiful attention whore
There is this Philippines girl, based in Doha my city, 36 years old but still a beauty, and we connect in IG about mid May. We really start chatting while I'm on my June trip to the Philippines. We keep in touch, she's teasing and flirty, then when I return from my trip, I immediately arrange a date with her. It's my birthday actually and she immediately agrees. She turns to our date with a beautiful red dress. She's very hot in her dress and heels, with her long black hair on her naked shoulders. The birthday date is good, and I invite her for some music at my home right after it... But when I start getting closer from her, I feel her withdrawing. And I immediately recognize the symptoms: she likes the attention from the man, more than the man, so she keeps the man at a distance, giving him just enough to keep him around. No sex happens that evening, and the next few days I am confirmed in my diagnostics over texting. The remedy prescribed by Dr Seppuku in this case is to simply scale back your attention and get her chasing. Which I do. There are many attempts at another date, most of them derailed, but we finally have another (quick) meeting, where she still has this behavior of keeping me at bay. But then I have my children at home and get busy. When she understand I'll be busy for 6 weeks, she just silently unfollow me - I unfollow her back right away, and it's all done.
In her defense, the story I gathered from her is, she is a working expat mum. She once got a boyfriend here, who after a while moved to Dubai and asked her to leave her job and follow him. But that would have serious consequences. How long would she need to get another job? How is she going to remit money to her family? So she turned down the offer, and (I guess) renounced to be seriously involved with another man... Going for their attention instead.
Another Doha-based, single mum, Philippines beauty
We connect in IG maybe mid June then she engages me when she sees my posts from the Philippines mid June. Asks if I'm traveling alone. LOL. "Yes, alone. Just two or three girlfriends in my luggage, in case I'm hungry

". Then we start to chat. She's another single expat mum (husband died some years back), remitting money to her family. She is a real beauty, but I soon start to sense the hard celibate case. We connect well in IG. But when I'm back in Doha I don't have a chance to ask her out. I was busy with the other girl above - seems I picked the wrong choice. Then my kids are here, then it grows cold.
In summary,
IG offers plenty of very nice possibilities of a much higher quality than the dating apps. With the exception of the attention whore, these were all girls where I stood a good chance I think. But due to circumstances, I couldn't get to them in good time. In Instagram too, the rule is to beat the iron while hot, because these things are transient. The fact that the hot lady may be far away makes it even more complicated.
IG: Important takeaways
In fact they're not so different from the ones I got from dating apps, but the timescale involved is a bit more lax.
Rules for timing:
- 1. You need to be able to meet her in person with two or three weeks max
2. If the opportunity comes too early, it's best not to turn on the heat yet. Staying as neutral as possible for now. Turn the heat later, when condition 1 is met
3. No need to engage a new girl by DM if rule 1 is not met.
Rules of Long Distance Meeting:
- 1. Establish her interest for a meeting
2. Work out a few additional potential options in the area
3. Inform her a few days before the fact that you are coming to her city
4. Don't make it look like you're coming purposefully to see her - that would be the pedestal again.
5. Place her in front of the fact: "I am here until Sunday..." If she is interested, she will make time.
6. In case of last minute trouble, fallback on secondary options
7. All this, within two or three weeks of first contact with her, as per rules of timing above.
The idea is to avoid anticipating a meeting for too long, and have her expectations grow either way. The killer thing is to build up the anticipation of meeting for months. It is going to make big bubbles in her head, and the bubbles will grow out of control. Telling her two days before kill the bubbles in the womb so to speak.
There is an extra rule. For as much as I like to sexualize a conversation in online game, it can be counterproductive for long distance meeting. If she grows the expectation that it's going to be about sex, she will face lots of ASD, and may end up blowing it in the course of a few days. Much better to keep her guessing.
- 8. Prior to meeting, you can be teasing and sexy, but avoid to imply the meeting is going to be sexual.
These are the exact rules that worked wonders with miss K in April 2017 - and I actually ended up fucking my secondary option, too! I believe I could have got my crazy twerker easily if I had been able to apply the same rules. But well, like I said it's not always practically possible. Here, it wasn't.
Concluding note: I will have an update regarding the miss K situation (from my last entry here). I went there and met her... But enough for today. I'll keep it for another post.