Bars are the best pick-up spots — but can you ever find romance in addition to a sexual conquest?

It’s a tough old world we live in — a tough old world for dating, that is. In cities like Los Angeles and New York, a good man is seriously hard to find. Sure, we can be set up by our friends (which, in my opinion, is the best way to meet a guy), but here’s the catch: most single gals don’t have a wide range of male buddies. As for our married pals, they must have done something right — they did get the gown, the ring and the guy, after all — but they’re useless when it comes to set-ups. Marrieds tend to stick together, as so singletons. Your bestie’s hubby might have one or two single guys still in his life, but trust me, they’re probably still single for a reason. So what’s a girl to do? Our love lives tend to be pretty dire (I prefer to think of these solitary periods as ‘droughts’) so we need alcohol, clearly. Which puts us at a bar, in the firing distance of many, many men. But do we have a shot of love with a guy we meet at a bar, or are we in for nothing more than a sloppy one-night stand? more…