And is it just me or did every other conversation with a female counterpart turn into a sexual convo?
Well yes and no. They did turn into sexual convos, but every other female counterpart was a dude.
I don't know if the ratio was that bad; I used it a little back in the early to mid 90's (when you got the disk in the mail for free; you could build a lolly column out of AOL disks if you wanted to) and there seemed to be a LOT of lonely women, about 26, 27, who were figuring out that the star QB in high school makes for a douchebag of a husband. Maybe they were guys, but I can't tell you how many conversations ended right in the middle with some form of "gotta go, bye!" because someone walked in the room.