Sometimes, Craigslist Missed Connections have the power to renew your faith in love-at-first sight. Other times, they will destroy your faith in humanity. This is one of those times.

I don’t know what possibly could have happened this week to inspire some of the saddest missed connections that I have ever seen, but it’s not my place to speculate—Internet stalking works in mysterious ways.

First up: can two “sell outs” make it work?

BRUCE CONCERT AT VERIZON (Verizon Center)

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“What’s up guys?” writes the “very masculine” bisexual white male, before getting down to business:

“[I'm] looking for other masculine buds out there who wear jockstraps,” this Baltimore Craigslist poster writes (warning: possibly NSFW photos of dudes posing in jockstraps). The poster, who runs an amateur jockstrap photo blog, is looking for any guy “into showing-off and taking pics in their jocks,” including:

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According to the Maryland Gazette, “at least” 18 men have been arrested through the state’s undercover sex operation this year. The operation follows the typical “To Catch A Predator” model: “The men contacted Montgomery County Police officers posing as a 16-year-old high school sophomore on Craigslist.com, negotiated how much they would pay for specific sexual services and set up meetings in the Gaithersburg area, where they were arrested upon arrival.”

All this sex sting lacked was Chris Hansen hiding in a closet—who apparently has quite a following among underage prostitution enthusiasts!

Several men asked the girl if she was working for police, according to the documents, and a few said that they did not want to end up on Dateline’s “To Catch A Predator” television series.

They didn’t end up on “To Catch a Predator.” But the Gazette has stepped in to assume Hansen’s role of disseminating all the johns’ life-ruining details to the public. No cookies and lemonade, either:

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“That’s right—a stripper pole,” reads this NOVA Craigslist ad. Really? Because it looks a lot like a pole to me:

The pole can be yours for 90 bucks.

[Thanks to Molly Redden for the stripper tip].

Craigslist’s adult-services ads may now be scrubbed of unlawfullness and pornography, but the Web site’s notoriously dirty personals section is still allowed to run free of administrative oversight. That’s not to say its sex seekers are lacking in standards.

In “The Glory Hole is OPEN,” the proprietor of a private anonymous sex hole writes:

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Over on CityDesk, Andrew Beaujon digs into the Craigslist adult ads crackdown, a new development which could mean good business for alt-weeklies. Why not come crawling back to CP, erotic service providers, where photos of genitalia and penetration are no-nos, but “Nipples are kind of on a fence”?

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Breitbart is reporting that Craigslist is “getting rid of its ‘erotic services’ ads and will create a new adult category that will be reviewed by employees of the Web site.” The news come courtesy of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and is currently unconfirmed by the mammoth classifieds Web site. Madigan’s office got pretty specific, though, announcing that current erotic ads posted at the site “will expire in seven days.”

The reported move comes in the wake of media attention focused on Boston University med student Philip Markoff, who allegedly killed a 26-year-old “masseuse” he met through the Web site. You may know Markoff as “the Craigslist killer.” All press, good press, etc.

Breitbart couldn’t reach Craigslist for comment, but its “erotic services” page and FAQ register no notice of the section’s impending doom. If Craigslist does do away with “erotic services,” I have a feeling crafty sex-for-pay providers will manage to somehow find a way.

Sure, it’s not as glitzy as being cornered on the kitchen peninsula behind a big pitcher of lemonade by handsome moral authority and “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen. In December, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and some NoVa detectives tricked some local dudes into trying to have sex with kids with Craigslist posts titled “In Town for 2 Days-Mom W 2 Grls” and “2 nite only- fmly fun – u wn’t forget” The posts then described how interested parties could have sex with 8-to-14-year-old girls. Ha ha, too good to be true, child molesters.

Hey, let’s see which of our neighbors were totally into this:

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* Wow! Creepiest ending to a Craigslist personals ad in recent memory: “There is a unique kind of yoga I’ve been doing…when I’m not at the gym”

* Womenstake’s Melanie Ross Levin describes the scene at the signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. “Surrounded by a “who’s who” from the women’s movement, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by the significance of this occasion,” she writes. “As a newbie to the White House signing ceremony world, I ran around the room trying to capture the moment by taking as many photos and talking to as many people as possible.” Ha ha, n00b!

* Gender Goggles reviews “Violet,” an “interactive fiction game in which you are a graduate student attempting to finish your dissertation”—and in which you can make your protagonist a lesbian by choosing the “heteronormativity off” option.

* Lisa Schiffren of the National Review is unsurprisingly nonsensical, this time about the Obamas hiring a new White House chef, like every other Presidential family has done from the beginning of time ever. She writes: “But today, news comes that the Obamas will not run a national Top Chef competition—because they are bringing their own, private chef from Chicago to the White House. Well, isn’t that nice?”

Short answer: It is not nice, it is terrible in every way except that it now allows Schiffren to smugly dangle in front of us all this incontroversial evidence of what Michelle Obama has been all along—an elitist servant-driver and a shitty mom. “I believed all that stuff about how Michelle was an overburdened modern working mother, rushing from school dropoff to her high-paying, demanding work at the hospital, to dress fittings, to whatever it was she needed to do to support her husband’s political aspirations, back home to take care of her daughters,” writes Schiffren. “Call me naive, but that model usually includes making dinner.” It gets better—later, Schiffren evokes Sarah Palin!

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Intrepid Craigslist users seeking snow jobs—or similar double entendres based upon sex terns and winter weather conditions, whatever, I’m new to this—are covering the site with a soft blanket of snow-themed hook-up requests. These are their stories.

* In a piece titled “Snow…Ahhhh Yes….It’s Great Sex Weather,” a 49-year-old Sterling man is just looking for some great winter banging, “so no BS, alright??” If you agree that snow creates the perfect conditions for sex, this man is interested in interesting you “in a 100-night stand” (no men). Yeah, I’m pretty sure the snow will be gone by then.

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