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January 15, 2012<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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Sexpat and the City: Some people wear gloves…<\/a><\/h3>\n

by Mr. Sexpat<\/span><\/h4>\n
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\"\"Mr. Sexpat is a twentysomething English expat living, and occasionally loving, in Berlin. Join us as we follow him into the seamy underbelly of the city’s single scene.
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“Berlin is a city at odds with those that visit and with those that stay. Berlin is a city for those lost and found, and the rest of us somewhere in-between. Berlin is for many things and for many people. What Berlin is not for is lovers. That is a fucking joke.<\/p>\n

Having spent a good amount of the last year single, not-so-single and getting the occasional rub up in and around different bar stools, I have found myself at the dregs of 2011 the most utterly unsexed, ungroped and unsnogged since I first entered the eternal cagefight with the opposite sex.<\/p>\n

Let me share a little secret: be it boy, girl, hipster, pug, gallery owner, electro DJ, promoter, office manager, toilet cleaner, bar owner, magazine editor, intern, student, protestor, database manager or smelly Sternburg prince; in Berlin you are either hopelessly in love or most weeknights alone, hopelessly self-involved with your right hand. There is a myth (no doubt created by a totally loved-up \u201cbi-curious\u201d \u201cblogger\u201d sat in a \u201ccafe\u201d somewhere, Skyping to their mates back home that they\u2019re either a) \u201cknee deep in German clunge\u201d or b)\u201dliving with a performance artist called Greg\u201d) that the streets of Berlin are awash with free pussy and\/or dick. I am here to tell you (left) hand on heart that it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

You can expect to spend your first months in Berlin wandering aimlessly about, too shitfaced to even see let alone meet someone, before that sinking feeling kicks in. Why are all your friends a) depressingly relationshipped or b) achingly single? Where are those poor, deluded first pangs of affection for a guy\/gal\/pug? Why is everyone in this cafe one half of a couple?! Bitch please, you made the one and only mistake you can make in Berlin \u2013 thinking that this city likes you.<\/p>\n

\"Berlin<\/a><\/p>\n

antjeverena, "Berlin doesn't love you", via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Berlin, the poor guy (come on, the TV Tower is clearly not a clit!), has had a tough bloody time of it over the last century and he doesn\u2019t want you falling in love and creating more idiots to gurn in future Photoautomats. “But you\u2019re wrong,” I hear you object. “I know lots of people who are getting laid and having a great time!” You\u2019re missing the point. These people are free-love scum and will be destroyed as nuclear level crabs devour them from the inside out.<\/p>\n

As I and the rest of the great unwashed ride this rollercoaster of a city, we wonder how the fuck are we going to meet anyone normal enough, good looking enough, to chat and maybe even have a relationship with. “Oh but the grass is always greener, blah blah more fish in the sea…” Well most of the fish in the Spree are vegetarian, political and much much<\/em> more beautiful than you or I pal- so take your outdated notion of free love and get to the back of the queue. Some of us have been waiting a lot longer than you.<\/p>\n

I hereby declare 2012 the year of the single Berliner! Raise your contraceptive device high boys! We\u2019re going the find some thumbs to crawl under!”<\/p>\n