{"id":1769,"date":"2021-04-14T06:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/february-20-2015-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:15:12","slug":"february-20-2015-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/february-20-2015-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"February 20, 2015 &#8211; \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-02-20T13:49:07+0000\">February 20, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/photo-day-february-20-2015\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Photo of the Day \u2013 February 20, 2015<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">Zo\u00eb Noble<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150217-112814-u.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150217-112814-u.jpg\" alt=\"Berlin G\u00f6rlitzer Park\" width=\"650\" height=\"975\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12511\"\/><\/a><br \/> Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoenoble.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.zoenoble.com\/', 'Zo\u00eb Noble');\" title=\"Zo\u00eb Noble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zo\u00eb Noble<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-12510 defualt\" post_id=\"12510\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/photo-day-february-20-2015\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/share', 'Tweet');\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/photo-day-february-20-2015\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/photos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Photos<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/gorlitzer-park\/\" rel=\"tag\">G\u00f6rlitzer Park<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"tag\">Photo of the day<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/photo-day-february-20-2015\/#respond\">leave a comment<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-02-20T08:05:38+0000\">February 20, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/berlintercourse-ins-outs-dating-berlin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Berlintercourse: The ins and outs of dating in Berlin<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">Guest Blogger<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>Dating in Berlin can be weird. I&#8217;d been warned before I moved here: \u201cIn Berlin findet man mehr Sex als Liebe\u201d; \u201cEveryone is single in Berlin\u201d, etc. But I still had hopes that I would work it out \u2013 I even decided to make a challenge out of it. I mean, how could a young, fairly attractive and relatively intelligent girl like me stay single in a city full of hot, interesting and like-minded people? Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t take me long to realise that things weren\u2019t going to go as smoothly as I had expected.<\/p>\n<p>I turned to my smartphone as soon as I arrived in Berlin, to make sure I wouldn\u2019t lose too much time out of the game. I figured <a title=\"Sexpat and the City: Love Me Tinder\" href=\"\/sexpat-city-love-me-tinder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinder<\/a> would be my best bet, as I didn\u2019t have enough acquaintances or work colleagues to allow me to meet boys through friends. Little did I know that I was entering a world made almost exclusively of dates serving as both first and last encounter, plenty of shattered hopes and \u2013 here comes the silver lining \u2013 pretty awesome sex. It&#8217;s been over six months now and I still haven&#8217;t won the game. I have, however, learned some of the rules. And here&#8217;s tip number 1: don&#8217;t get indignant if you hear that the Berlin dating scene is insane. Just thank whoever was kind enough to warn you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you haven&#8217;t been greeted by a guy opening his apartment door with his balls hanging out, and a cock ring dangling between them, then how can you be sure that you\u2019ve really lived? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, yes, that did happen to me. But I&#8217;ll save that story for another time! Anyway, I&#8217;ve learned a lot over the past few months. I\u2019ve gone from almost falling in love upon first meeting a guy to having blind sex dates with people I met through OkCupid and knew nothing about. Not necessarily because of Berlin, but because I had just got out of a four year relationship which had repressed what I would describe as mild nymphomaniac tendencies. And what&#8217;s wrong with that? I always make the guys wear condoms, I haven&#8217;t got pregnant yet and I&#8217;ve experienced my fair share of crazy stories.<\/p>\n<p>My dating spree has introduced me to the good, the bad and the ugly of the Berlin dating scene. And no man that I\u2019ve encountered has behaved in a way that could be described as remotely normal. I blamed online dating for this, until I stopped using dating apps for a month. To my horror, I realised that the men I met in the standard, pre-21st century fashion ended up behaving in an even more absurd way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To give you an idea &#8211; I got dumped by this one guy I wasn&#8217;t even dating, by receiving a Whatsapp message at 7am on a Monday, as I lay in bed with a boy I&#8217;d met at Berghain. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d been to <a title=\"Sorry Sunday Times, Berlin's clubs aren't \" href=\"\/sorry-sunday-times-berlins-clubs-arent-satanic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KitKatClub<\/a> the Saturday before, and, after telling me we were absolutely going home together and convincing me to leave some of my clothes at his place, he got off his face on ecstasy and suddenly decided he wanted nothing more to do with me. In the meantime, he had actually introduced me as his girlfriend and asked what our rules were for the evening. We agreed that kissing strangers was fine, and that we would ask first if we wanted to actually sleep with anyone else. I guess it took him 24 hours to decide that the sensible thing to do would be to break up with me and dare to include the words \u201clet&#8217;s stay friends\u201d in his message &#8211; because why not, right?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m looking forward to sharing all these fabulous encounters in even more excruciating detail. <strong>Stay tuned for a journey in the life of a desperately single Berliner trying to figure out the in and outs of this sex-obsessed city, one or two insane boys at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-12499 defualt\" post_id=\"12499\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/berlintercourse-ins-outs-dating-berlin\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/share', 'Tweet');\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/berlintercourse-ins-outs-dating-berlin\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/opinions\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Opinions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/apps\/\" rel=\"tag\">Apps<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/berghain\/\" rel=\"tag\">Berghain<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/berlintercourse\/\" rel=\"tag\">Berlintercourse<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/kitkatklub\/\" rel=\"tag\">KitKatKlub<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/okcupid\/\" rel=\"tag\">OkCupid<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/sex\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sex<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/tinder\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tinder<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/berlintercourse-ins-outs-dating-berlin\/#comments\">1 comment<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pageNav\">\n<div class=\"prev\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"next\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, 2015 Photo of the Day \u2013 February 20, 2015 by Zo\u00eb Noble Photo by Zo\u00eb Noble Tweet Category: Photos Tags: G\u00f6rlitzer Park : Photo of the day leave a comment February 20, 2015 Berlintercourse: The ins and outs of dating in Berlin by Guest Blogger Dating in Berlin can be weird. 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