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# ‘Pickup’ sticks: SinkHer has eight girls to impress
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/pickup-sticks-sinkher-has-eight-girls-to-impress/
- Published: 2004-10-22T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:19:34.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

said Kinrys. “We were dressed up. We looked nice. We were talking about how sociable we are and why can’t we make money being sociable. We thought, ‘We can be escorts, but we don’t want to have sex.’”

So the pair of self-proclaimed “wing girls” concocted the idea for their company, SinkHer. They charge $100 an hour to take guys to bars, clubs, farmers’ markets — anywhere they might meet a mate — and introduce him to prospective dates. After 25 “dates,” the founders now employ eight more girls and place their success rate at 75 percent.

“We’re the only female pickup artists, if you want to call it that, in Los Angeles,” boasts Kinrys. “We actually call it ‘The ice breaker’ because we take away that awkwardness of the first line.”

Kinrys said the dates often turn into “live therapy sessions” when the guys explain what they’re looking for and the girls give them pointers and reality checks.

Josh “Frederick,” a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student too embarrassed to give his real last name, said he decided to try the girls after a friend spotted their ad online.

“You know, I go to a lot of bars, and I talk to girls a lot, but they’re not really girls I wanted anything to do with,” said Josh, who spent two hours with two of SinkHer’s girls. “I figured I’d meet, maybe, higher quality girls” through SinkHer.

Josh got lucky. The SinkHer girls spent about half an hour talking to him about what he wanted in a date, made him feel comfortable and then fanned out around the bar for him. They brought back a few women for him to talk to, and Josh ended up with several phone numbers. He even took one of the girls he met out for a date afterwards.

“We’re going out again this week,” Josh said.

The 25 clients who have used SinkHer’s services since the company was formed last month have come from all sorts of social and economic backgrounds, according to Kinrys, ranging in years from 22 to 54\. No “sleazeballs” are allowed, she added, saying the group carefully screens out potential clients who are just on the prowl for sex.

Rubin and Kinrys met each other in January on a trip to Israel. Rubin is a promotional marketer with a history in PR. Kinrys, who lives in an apartment near 19th Street and Wilshire Boulevard, moved to Santa Monica earlier this year to work for a PR firm that handles clients like Kettle One Vodka and Quicksilver clothing.

Now, Kinrys is doing PR for SinkHer, and going out with clients. Sometimes the company’s work can pay off in unexpected ways, she remarked.

“We’re having a blast every time we go out, because we can’t believe we’re doing this,” she said. “The funny thing is we get a lot of dates when we’re on a date with the guys, because we’re not focusing on ourselves.

“We’re just having a good time.”

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to the Daily Press SinkHer co-founder Marni Kinrys (right) and employee Jory Steinberg (holding dog “Kramer”) tend to business — making guys popular, and piquing girls’ interest. (Photo: Crill Hansen/Special)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 22, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/102204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)