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“Dating for Men over 35” will be moderated by Maestro, a man over 35 who has 30 years of dating experience.

CALL ME MAESTRO!

“But does he conduct an orchestra?”

Remember that Seinfeld episode? Haha

Well, in fact, I have conducted orchestras. But that was a long time ago, in another life.

In those days, I was a sheltered kid from a strict Protestant household, raised by a single mother and her parents; which means I had two generations of prudery instilled in me. I never saw a naked female (of any age) until I spied on my college-aged cousin in the shower, when I was 14.

I lost my virginity at age 22, but only after several years of “Christian” sex—meaning, everything but vaginal intercourse—and then only after that girl and I had dated for a year and a half and literally couldn’t stop our bodies from doing what came naturally.

That relationship ended after I left college. A degree in music qualified me to wait tables. One of the many restaurant jobs I worked over the next ten years was at a cheap seafood buffet in a resort town. That summer was a real eye-opener!

SUMMER OF LUST

The waiter that trained me was a tall, ruggedly handsome fellow named John. Despite the scars on his face (that he had garnered in a knife fight while on shore leave in the Navy) and a finger that had been partially shorn off during an engine room accident, leaving a delicate stub (It was his right middle, or “pussy finger”, as he called it.), he cast an elegant figure in our required tuxedo-with-no-jacket uniform.

“Welcome! You’re gonna meet a lot of women this summer,” was the first thing he said to me.

“Oh, yeah?” He had my attention.

“People come to this town for three reasons: sun, food and sex. Women come in here with their girlfriends to get away from their husbands and boyfriends,” he explained. “Being at the beach reminds them of when they were still single, before they got locked into their middle-American jobs and families. They lust for the passion that they used to have, that their husbands and boyfriends no longer provide. Of course, they don’t go around saying, ‘Hey, I’m gonna cheat on my man!’ But that’s what ends up happening. They want a handsome stranger to sweep them off their feet. It’s not just a fantasy.”

And so, we became wingmen, as we now call it. It was my first experience of being “popular with the ladies”, as my grandfather used to put it. We had women waiting for us almost every night that summer when we got off work.

Sometimes they slipped us their phone numbers or hotel room numbers along with their payments. Sometimes they were waiting at the bar or outside the restaurant for us at closing time. Sometimes we just plain ole asked them if they wanted to meet us after work, and most of the time they either said yes or showed genuine regret for having other plans or for being married. Sometimes the ones that said no would show up later, anyway. Sometimes the most aggressive ones WERE the married ones!

POWER IS SEXY

John was my first mentor in the art of “pick-up”. Looking back, with what I know now, I can see that the reason all those women were attracted to us is because of our status. They were attracted to us for the same reason that we, as men, are attracted to the hot cocktail waitresses and bartenders more than we are to an equally good-looking female who happens to be sitting right next to us.

One of my improv teachers used to say, “The only mistake you can make in improv is to admit that you’ve made a mistake. And that’s because POWER IS SEXY. Audiences will love you as long as you don’t give your power away. They want you to be powerful, to lead them on a journey. They want to know that they are safe in your hands, and that they aren’t wasting their time with you. Audiences look at performers much the same way that women look at men.”

MATURE MASCULINE POWER

Enter Doctor Paul! If you’re looking to become the kind of man that naturally attracts quality women, then the best place to start is with Dr. Paul’s “MATURE MASCULINE POWER” DVD/CD set. If you’re a little more advanced and you really wanna take it to the next level, then try “THE OMEGA MALE” DVD/CD series.

Till next time,

Maestro