Sex and the Office by Helen Gurley Brown

Author:Helen Gurley Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781569804926
Publisher: Barricade Books

MAN HUNT

Meanwhile back at the libido, where are the men?

Hopefully you’ll meet some in the course of the business day who will take an interest in you. Possibly you have an old beau or two stashed away in this particular city and you can call them up. Perhaps you’re armed with telephone numbers of friends of friends. (Don’t hesitate to badger and scramble for this intelligence if it promises men. I wouldn’t fool around with anybody’s sister’s college roommate’s cousin who’s a lovely girl just like you are, however.)

The thing about traveling on business is that, with just the flimsiest excuse, a girl can call up men she used to work with, won a Charleston contest with or never laid eyes on, and nobody is embarrassed. “Doris wanted you to know her azalea finally dropped dead,” is a perfecdy acceptable message. See what develops. To an old beau you want to see you merely say, “I’d like to see you while I’m here.” You don’t have to be so subtle as at home.

It’s quite all right to suggest to one of the friends of friends you don’t know (a man) that he stop by your hotel for a drink. Anything below the third floor of the establishment is actually pretty businesslike. Natives often love having an excuse to drop by the city’s best hotel. Sign the check like a good girl.

You may have dear old nonromantic friends to look up, too. Often it’s better not to tell them you’re coming until you see how the romantic situation is developing or not developing. Most people are happy to fit themselves into your schedule.

A little thing like your work could get in the way of your visiting anybody, however sexed. These are the misfortunes of war—and business. Don’t forget that being successful is what got you traveled and you mustn’t blow it all in a few ill-chosen nights on the town.

If you do have free time, one excellent plan for collecting, sorting and consolidating men in a travel-town is to give a small cocktail party in your hotel room. Have this right at the end of the first working day. Ask the people you’re doing business with and any of the assorted old and new menfolk just mentioned. I guess you could let in a girl or two, maybe.

At the party you’ll have a chance to get better acquainted with the work-people and to look over the strangers to see whether you want to invest an evening. The hotel will do the catering if you like. Food can be anything from simple canapes to a rather impressive nut-crusted cheeseball with crackers. They’ll send a bartender and liquor and charge by the drink. Don’t worry, they keep track.

If you want to keep the party to the absolute minimum cost, buy your own liquor from the store, also modest hors d’oeuvres. Order ice and glasses from the hotel. Perhaps you’ll want them to send up a large pot of coffee, too. If one or

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