No hookers, please

I post ads on Craig's List in an effort to find friends. Friends, not a wife, girlfriend, casual hookup or fuck buddy. I'm lonely and want to make friends and I want some of these pals to be female. Yet most of the respondents to my sincere ads are only interested in jacking me up for cash. Perhaps our crapper economy is at fault, but it would be splendid if I could hear from women (or men) who are like me, lonely but genuine, maybe new in town, interested in bicycling, watching movies, eating out, shopping, caring for the lawn, walking dogs. I have nothing against working girls, I'm just not interested in finding one. I'd rather jerk off.