Animated Date

My Very Worst Date happened at the beginning of my dating career. I thought I was a goth kid and therefore saw no issue in dating a dirty 17 year-old kid with washed-out blue hair and a bad unibrow. We’ll call him K. We hung out at his house before going out (of course, his room was in the basement) and my first alarm should have gone off when I saw the scantily clad anime girl poster covering an ENTIRE wall. He readily admitted that he watched hentai (cartoon porn), but me being in total denial of that being weird, I said nothing. We ended up going to a movie and wandering around the downtown area afterward. We were sitting in the grass and the date was actually going quite well. We were laughing and joking and I playfully smacked his arm for some reason. He moaned and admitted that he was a masochist and asked me to hit him again. I did not. For some reason, I dated this kid for about three months, which ended in a fight where he left 20 something crying messages on my cell phone when I went to take a 15 minute shower. I told him to grow some balls and call me back when it happened. I haven’t heard from him since.

Comments (28)
EmilyJuly 12th, 2010 at 7:19 am

It’s not uncommon or even weird for guys to watch Hentai. And it’s not uncommon or weird for 17 year old boys to plaster their walls with porn. I’d have probably told you to get over it – doesn’t sound like a bad date so much as a very typical angsty teenager one! He probably feels a bit embarassed looking back on how he used to be :)

TheRestOfTheStoryJuly 12th, 2010 at 8:49 am

Emily, something you want to share with us?

EllereJuly 12th, 2010 at 8:54 am

If a 17 year old has plastered his walls with porn, I’d say his parents are very bad at setting boundaries. That’s not normal. Maybe scantily clad women and some cheesecake, but not full out porn.

LouwiiJuly 12th, 2010 at 9:01 am

@Ellere

I think the writer calls panties & bra “porn”.

I agree with Emily, it didn’t sound that bad. Maybe he was a bad boyfriend, bud doesn’t sound like a horrible date.

UndeadFiendJuly 12th, 2010 at 9:43 am

I actually am the submitter here, and the panties and bra was not my idea of porn, believe me. He went on quite…animatedly about his fixation with hentai pornography (tentacles!!).

Watching porn is perfectly natural, but not something you tell a young girl on a first date, haha.

TedJuly 12th, 2010 at 11:21 am

It sounds like this is just bitter gripes about a failed relationship, not a worst date

tronnerJuly 12th, 2010 at 11:52 am

I thought Hentai was a fake tattoo. But it’s fake porn?

MeshellJuly 12th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

Hahaha, this is too funny after I spent a weekend domming my boyfriend and talking about my love for hentai.

Youth is full of exploring who you are. Get over the failed relationship. It’s not like this is “This is one of my past relationships where things weren’t sunshine and unicorns” dot COM.

JustineJuly 12th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

It IS uncommon and weird for guys to watch Hentai past a certain age (college-aged at the latest) because it is borderline child porn! I am a banker in my mid 20s and I have never even met anyone into cartoon porn…that is, that I know of….and I can guarantee they would ridiculed out of the dating pool if they tried to get with anyone I know. With that said, this might be normal for teenagers. It seems like just a little phase of teenage rebellion, just like her goth phase was. He probably looks back on that and cringes.

AndrewJuly 12th, 2010 at 1:13 pm

I didn’t read this story as being bitter about a failed relationship at all.

And @tronner, that would be henna :)

tronnerJuly 12th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

@Meshell – shit, I’ve had this site bookmarked wrong this entire time!

GlennJuly 12th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

I’d like to give you zero stars for relaying your boring narrative in the most uninteresting way possible. Some people on this site make an effort to portray their worst date in an exciting way. Some people aren’t that ambitious, and at least convey meaningful information in structures called paragraphs. Thank you kindly for this big old wall of text.

tronnerJuly 12th, 2010 at 1:59 pm

At all those that dislike this one, let’s boil this date down into a simple syrup and savor what I think the OP was trying to get across.

K – “come to my room, it is super cool. I have the NIN Halo 4 “Sin” UK single released in 1990″
OP – “wow, Trent rules”
OP – “oh my, what is THAT”
K – “that’s my fake tattoo porn, I really like porn. Porn porn porn. Naked cartoon women porn”
OP – “erm…ok”
OP – “let’s go to the sunlight and make fun of the people wearing birkenstocks”
K – “Ok, will you hit me first?”
OP – “erm…ok”

UndeadFiendJuly 12th, 2010 at 2:17 pm

@Glenn I don’t believe it was a wall ‘o text when I submitted it, maybe the formatting got all weird just on my end.

But good job raging about things someone said on the internet. I’m sorry I ruined your life with my uninteresting narrative.

MaryJuly 12th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Hi Andrew! I picked out my dress! ;)

GlennJuly 12th, 2010 at 2:48 pm

@UndeadFiend Oh don’t worry, you didn’t ruin my life, but this was just a let down. Some of the stories on here are truly impressive. Your story is essentially one of you being ridiculously prudish. As shocking a discovery it may have been to you to find out teenage boys are into pornography, I was strangely unimpressed. Your terrible writing format just made a boring story that much more of a waste of space on this site, which at its best dissects gruesomely awkward dates – horrifying point by horrifying point. Not trying to be harsh to you personally, just wish this site had more uniform standards when accepting submissions.

adminJuly 12th, 2010 at 2:51 pm

@Glenn, would you be interested in being an unpaid intern and help go through submissions? We thought the story was worthy of being published even though it’s not similar to other dates we have posted.

Frau BlucherJuly 12th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

the guy is 17…now if this date involved a guy of 27, then it would be creepy.

zomboidJuly 12th, 2010 at 3:27 pm

“It IS uncommon and weird for guys to watch Hentai past a certain age (college-aged at the latest) ”

i’m a 26-year-old female and quite like a bit of hentai every now and again….

MMMichelleJuly 12th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

@Glenn, would you be interested in being an unpaid intern and help go through submissions? We thought the story was worthy of being published even though it’s not similar to other dates we have posted.

Haha, I think what they are saying is, this is a free entertainment site, get over yourself.

JoelJuly 12th, 2010 at 9:02 pm

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: People called ‘K’ are crazy.

gewagJuly 13th, 2010 at 1:18 am

Teenagers make an awkward attempt at having a relationship, news at 11.

GabbyJuly 13th, 2010 at 1:31 am

Why isn’t anyone alarmed by the fact that he asked to be hit again and sexually stimulated by a girl on the first date? Regardless of all of the above, I still think that’s a little weird.

ZakJuly 13th, 2010 at 3:59 am

The comments on this article are as funny as the story! I actually liked the story… it shows what happens when an angsty submissive goes on a date with a innocent girl that’s a bit goth, but not really into the crazy stuff.

I dated a 17 year old goth chick, and one day she was having a bad day and asked me if she could punch me in the face to help relieve her tension. (I said no, glad she asked first!) Goths are quite often into dom/sub stuff and chains and the like, so your 17 year old boy’s request for a punch in the arm wasn’t too weird I suppose.

My house nearly burnt down during my date with the goth chick, I’d post the story, but it was a great date. :-D

wafflesJuly 13th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

@ Justine – who told you that? Because it is incorrect. Firstly, it is not cartoon porn, it is anime porn, and anime (porn or otherwise) is something that is not unusual for adults to watch. How is it borderline child porn? I would say something else here, but it would be inappropriate and I am a classy person.

CJJuly 13th, 2010 at 8:20 pm

@admin- haaahahahahahahahahahaha. Love this site.

@the usual suspects (you know who you are): even when I don’t comment, you always make me smile.

EmilyJuly 14th, 2010 at 8:10 am

@Ellere

“If a 17 year old has plastered his walls with porn, I’d say his parents are very bad at setting boundaries. That’s not normal. Maybe scantily clad women and some cheesecake, but not full out porn.”

Maybe you had a more prudish upbringing than me, but at 17 most if not all of the lads I was friends with had some kind of scantily clad half naked blonde woman pinned up on their wall. The geekier of my friends who loved anime, would also have a hentai picture or two.
It was stupid, and a bit threatening to any girlfriend they may invite back (‘oh hey, I perve over these perfectly drawn women that you look nothing like’) but it wasn’t weird or indicative of them being bad boyfriends. Just lame teenagers :)

eimeoAugust 10th, 2010 at 6:13 pm

@zomboid – I’m a 31 yo woman and I like watching Hentai too… Seriously, folks, Hentai-watching doesn’t make you a deviant. Neither does watching any other kind of adult porn, for that matter. It’s about personal preference. Hentai is NOT child pornography, which is *actually* abhorrent.

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