BY Lux Alptraum
February 11, 2008
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While browsing Craig’s List, I happened upon the following ad listed among scores of East Village shares: “$600 Seeking another bisexual female roommate (East Village).”

Odd headline aside, the price was enough to get me to click — and boy, was I glad I did.

What initially seemed like a run of the mill “LGBT apartment dweller seeks same” ad turned out to be, well, something of an entirely different nature all together:

Hi

I (27) and my BF (31) would be interested in renting out our extra room to a Bi girl.

Nothing sexual required necessarily , just we like the idea since I am BI and for other reasons.

If you are interested email us and we can discuss details.

Large room, near Astor Place, March 1st move in.

Furnished, closet space, DVD, cable, wifi Internet.

Everything negotiable if you are cute and Bi.

Worth 1000$ a month we can start negotiations at 600$ a month for you.

Could this just be the most porno-sounding Craig’s List housing ad ever?

With some reservations — what if they were they super pervy? Wasn’t this an obvious “seeking third” ad? What, exactly, does “nothing sexual required necessarily” mean? — I answered the ad. A near immediate response provided me with pictures of my would-be roommates, a stylish black man and his Japanese girlfriend, and the room in question. My own picture was requested in response.

This was shaping up to look like a bad Craig’s List date.

A few more emails were exchanged, I found out where the apartment was, and then I was on the phone with the man who’d posted the ad.

And he sounded nothing like I’d expected. He sounded shy and unsure of himself, and when I asked what they were looking for, he said they had a spare room that they wanted to rent to someone comfortable with their “lifestyle.”

No explanation of what that “lifestyle” was.

Fifteen minutes later, I was being let into the building by the girlfriend. She was sweet and bubbly, showing me around the apartment with enthusiasm. Their bedroom was at one end of the apartment separated from the living room/second bedroom by a narrow hallway (and a folding screen). The room was currently being rented by a friend of the couple, also a Japanese girl.

While I was looking at the apartment, the two women started speaking in Japanese.

It didn’t seem like the kind of situation in which everything was negotiable as long as you were cute and bi.

A few minutes into my visit, the boyfriend emerged from the shower. He greeted me awkwardly, and I continued looking around the apartment.

I made my exit shortly thereafter.

So: who posts the most porno sounding Craig’s List ad ever? Apparently, a dorky black guy who’s gunning for a threesome — and hasn’t actually told his girlfriend. But hey, if the space had been a little bigger (or at least more private), I might have actually taken them up on the offer.