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How to Write a Personals Ad for Love

What women really want (a cartoon for hopeful lovers)

woman posts personal ad with the Wanted posters in the Post Office

woman posts personal ad with the Wanted posters in the Post Office

If Match.com doesn't bring you love, get creative: Craigslist is waiting with open arms!

In fact, the New York Times has an article focused on the famous Craigslist sexual encounters and other more innocent couplings that says Craigllist personals get more traffic than any of the other personals sites.

It also says that traffic to all the Craigslist personals sites - which include a separate one for romance and one for "missed connections," where people try to find the cutie they flirted with on the L train - is higher than for any other online personals site, including Match.com, eHarmony and Yahoo personals.

Oprah has a so-so article on how to write an ad, Ask Men tells it like it is! And then there's always the Wanted Poster, on the bulletin board...

No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved and © Donna Barstow, 2011.

Get notified of new cartoons on my Facebook page. This cartoon is included in the book, Love Me or Go to Hell: True Love Cartoons.

Cartoon caption: Cartoon of woman in Post Office, putting up a poster for the man she wants next to the FBI Most Wanted posters. Those posters say Dead or Alive, while hers says Alive and Loaded.




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Cartoonist Donna Barstow's work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, among many others.

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